Южный фронт в прорыве немецких рубежей на Миус-фронте в августе 1943 года

Abstract

During the Great Patriotic War, there were many decisive battles that radically changed its course and results. The liberation of the territory of the Rostov Region and Donbass by the troops of the Southern Front in August 1943 was also a turning point among the most significant. For various reasons, the breakthrough of the enemy's defense in depth on the Mius Front was underestimated at the national level. Throughout the post-war period, these events were practically considered events of regional and even local significance. Fundamental changes in the historiographic assessments of these events have taken place in the past few decades when the latest works of historians and local historians were published. The published works of researchers significantly supplemented and expanded the understanding of the history of the breakthrough of the Mius Front in the summer of 1943, which for a long time remained in the shadow of the Battle of Kursk. The final impetus in re-thinking these events was the awarding of honorary titles to settlements and borders along which the inaccessible Mius Front line ran during the war years. The public military-historical museum complex “Sambek Heightsˮ, which opened on August 30, 2020, summed up the symbolic significance of the destruction of the German defense on the Mius River in August 1943, and also gave special significance to the history of the liberation of the entire territory of the Rostov region for its preservation in the national memory.