The heroes of the battle for the Crimea. Tauris in the flame of the Great Patriotic War

Taurida ... So the ancient Greeks called the Crimean Peninsula. The same name was adopted in the Russian Empire after the accession of Crimea in 1783.
Blessed Crimean land from the century attracted the greedy eyes of conquerors. The peninsula, first of all, the cradle of the Black Sea Fleet Sevastopol survived two heavy wars in the fight against foreigners - the Crimean 1853-1856 and the Great Patriotic War.
Without exaggeration of abundant Russian blood, the epic of Taurida /Crimea was written in 1941-1944, when fierce battles and battles with German and Romanian invaders unfolded in the territory of the Peninsula and the Azov Seas. The combat affairs of the defenders of Crimea will forever remain in history. There are hundreds of thousands of them, and behind the story of the heroes of this book - Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky, generals I.E. Petrov, D. T. Kozlov, Ya. G. Kreizer, P.K. Koshev, officers L. M. Pavlichenko, A. Ya. Leshchenko, A.K. Abdrakhmanov - the collective and immortal feat of the people arises