Defense of Hanko Island

In the harsh autumn of the first year of the Great Patriotic War, when the armies of fascist Germany managed to break through to Leningrad, when the battles were going on the approaches to Moscow, in the deep rear of the enemy, on distant borders of the Baltic 164 days Stall and selflessly beat off all the enemy"s attacks of a small Soviet military wi-military Khanko base. Sailors, infantry and pilots of the Red Ganguta (the so-called Hanko Peninsula) did not give the enemy to any inches of their territory, moreover, the fascists from several islands that had a large tactical value were knocked out. Operation on the evacuation of the Hanko garrison, from October 22 to December 3, became one of the major and complex, and most importantly - successful operations conducted in 1941 by the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (CBF)