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It's time to tell about my plans for the year 2008.

I can't be sure I have more time than I have in 2007, but still think I'm able to keep and update this project, which is important both for me, my friends and my visitors worldwide. The year 2008 can be decisive in my life and I hope it to be not worse than the year 2007, which appeared to be among the most interesting years!

I have in mind uploading more battle schemes and images. Of course this will result in less figures and text information, but I think those efforts are worth to do, because this sort of info is among the most useful and informative. Also I ahve plans to upload some tables and figures.

As usual, any your help both financial and moral is much appreciated!

Important!

As I've promised, when I returned my debts finally I found time for some updates. It took me onle a few full days. Enjoy them! Imagine what amount I could process, if I can spend more than a week per month for updates....But right now no much optimism for this scenario, as I learnt my approximate schedule for the year 2008...In brief, it's very heavy, both for my scientific occupation and home works.

Alex aka AMVAS

Can't miss this remarkable date! Today we celebrates 5 year anniversary of the project!!! 5 years ago I felt myself crazy enough to start this project without any hope to finish it!!! Observing everything what had been done through these years I can see many wishes which were not done and many things which are well-done. As I always say "This site contains less than 1% of information which I obtain and I have no hope to increase this amount, because my endless storages are filling more quickly than I can process and upload those materials".

Right now Russian copyright law changed and libraries refuse to make digital copies of the sources published later than in 1938. But even taking into acocunt this sad fact I hope in the future to upload more unique materials, which I collected in the past years. Be sure, they are more than enough for 100 years of hard work....

Congratulate everybody with the Great Victory Day!!!

Alex aka AMVAS

Maps

• Southern Direction 1941
  • Deployment of the 35th Rifle Regiment for meeting engagement
• Western Direction 1942
  • Attacks of the 1104th and 1108th Rifle Regiments
• South-Western Direction 1943
  • Fights of the 1st Czechoslovak Battalion around Sokolovo
  • Fights of the 121st Rifle Division for Rylsk town
  • Defensive positions of the the 8th Guards Mechanised Corps
  • Parrying of German attacks by the 353rd Rifle Division
  • Fights for Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk)
• Western Direction 1943
  • Forced Desna river crossing by the 162nd Rifle Division
• Northern Direction 1944
• Positions of artillery of the 37th Guards Rifle Corps and 4th Rifle Corps
• Forced Svir' river crossing by the troops of the 98th Guards Rifle Division
• North-Western Direction 1944
  • Results of fight recon in operative zone of the 23rd Rifle Corps
  • Meting engagement of the 145th Rifle Division
• Western Direction 1944
  • Artillery positions and fire scheme of the 5th Army
  • Artillery positions of the 5th Army and the 3rd Guards Artillery Division
  • Operations of the 1022nd Rifle Regiment in advanced detachment
  • Pursuit of enemy troops by the 48th Guards Rifle Division
  • Decision of the 38th Guards Rifle Division commander for counter-attack
  • Defensive operations of the 108th Rifle Division at Narew bridgehead
  • Deployment of artillery of the 31rd, 49th and 50th armies in the course of annihilation of the pocket east from Minsk
  • Artillery deployment of the 5th Army
  • Vistula forced river crossing by the troops of the 8th Guards Army
• South-Western Direction 1944
  • Fights of the 167th Rifle Division for the Ruske pass (Ruskè sedlo)
  • Artillery movements prior to the Lvov-Sandomir operation
  • Artillery fire of the 60th Army during preparatory bombardment. Lvov-Sandomir operation
• Southern Direction 1944
  • Fights of the 15th Light Artillery Brigade
  • Artillery support of the Pliev Cavalry-Mechanised Group break-through
  • Artillery group of the 51st Army
  • Pursuit of Axis troops by the 227th Rifle Division
• North-Western Direction 1945
• Deployment of artillery of the 43rd Army on Apr. 5 and the 3rd Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division on Apr 5-8
• Western Direction 1945
• The 74th Guards Rifle Regiment Regiment of the second echelon engagement in the battle

Galleries

• T-50
  • Photos
  • Blueprints
  • Images
  • Museums
• IS-1 (IS-85)
  • Photos
  • Blueprints
  • Images
• KV-2 Mod. 1940 - gallery was rebuilt
  • Photos
  • Blueprints
  • Images
• KV-2 Mod. 1941 - gallery was rebuilt
• Photos
• Blueprints
• Images
• Museums
• KV-85
• Photos - 4 images added
• Images - 1 image added
• Museums
• T-80 - 1 photo added

Formations

Units listings:

• Groups and Regions
• Aviation regiments
• Tank and Self-propelled Artillery Regiment
• Rifle and Cavalry Regiments
• Miscellaneous_Regiments
• Training Establishments
• NKVD

Galleries

• BA-3/BA-3M - 1 photo added
• BA-11 - 2 photos added
• BT-7A - 2 photos added

Maps

• Defensive operations in Umpyrsky pass area

Battles

• The Kursk Battle
  • Strength of the 69th Army on July 10
  • Armored Strength of the 5th Guards Tank Army on July 11
  • Strength of the Rifle Units Involved in the Prokhorovka Battle on July 12
  • Strength of the 5th Guards Army on July 10
  • United Losses Report of the 5th Guards Tank Army for July 12

Maps

• Western Direction 1941
  • Decision of the 8th GRD commander to attack Kryukovo
  • Course of fights for Kryukovo
• South-Western Direction 1942
• Decision of the 21st Army commander on offensive
• Decision of the 76th & 293rd RDs commanders on offensive
• Course of operations of the 76th & 293rd Rifle Divisions
• Western Direction 1943
• Decision on offensive of the 11th Gds. Army commander
• Decision of the 8th Gds. Rifle Corps commander on offensive
• Battle order of the 8th Guards Rifle Corps for breaking through the enemy main defensive line
• Battle order of the 43rd Guards Tank Brigade, 2nd Separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment and 1536th Self-propelled Gun Regiment
• Course of operations of the 8th Guards Rifle Corps
• South-Western Direction 1943
• Decision of the 32nd Guards Rifle Corps commander on break-through
• Combat order of the 32nd Guards Rifle Corps
• Course of operations of the 32nd Guards Rifle Corps
• Western Direction 1944
• The 42nd Rifle Corps Commander's decision on breaking-through (updated)
• Temporary bridges' scheme across Drut' river. The 42nd Rifle Corps zone (updated)
• Operations of the 42nd Rifle Corps (updated)
• Battle order of the 42nd Rifle Corps
• Southern Direction 1944
• Decision of the Coastal Army commander for offensive
• Decision of the 16th Rifle Corps commander on breaking through enemy defensive lines
• Course of operations of the 16th Rifle Corps May 7-8
• Course of operations of the 16th Rifle Corps May 11-12
• Decision of the 35th Guards Rifle Corps commander
• Battle order of the 35th Guards Rifle Corps
• Combat operations of the 35th Guards Rifle Corps
• Battle order of the 10th Guards Rifle Corps
• Decision of the 10th Guards Rifle Corps commander on break-through
• Parrying of enemies counter-attack on the left flank of the 10th Guards Rifle Corps
• Operations of the 10th Guards Rifle Corps
• North-Western Direction 1945
• Battle order of the 94th Rifle Corps
• Decision of the 94th Rifle Corps commander
• Course of operations of the 94th Rifle Corps
• Western Direction 1945
• Battle order of the 32nd Rifle Corps
• Course of operations of the 32nd Rifle Corps