Main fight of Dmitry Lavrinenko. "Serpukhov don"t surrender!"

To the 80th anniversary of the heroic defense of Serpukhov!
"Serpukhov in no case do not take!" - It was such an order that the head of the garrison Serpukhov, the most important transport hub on the approaches to Moscow, personally received such an order from Stalin. The loss of Serpukhov would mean the blockade of Tula and the Wehrmacht’s exit to the capital from the south. On October 19, under Vysokinichi, in the situation of the Red Army on the entire Western Front, a special detachment of the 49th Army was strengthened by the T-34 tank. The crew of the thirty-four commanded the most effective tank ace of the Great Patriotic War Dmitry Lavrinenko (in 2.5 months of fighting in October-December 1941, he destroyed 52 German tanks) As a result, about a hundred Red Army soldiers with the T-34 inflicted a crushing defeat five times the superior forces of the Nazis.
This book in all details tells about the most famous battle D.F. Lavrinenko. Archival documents of the Red Army and Wehrmacht make it possible to objectively show the history of the feat of Soviet soldiers near Serpukhov on October 19, 1941. Moreover, you can look at the hostilities with the participation of the crew Lavrinenko not only from the Soviet but also from the German side. The course of legendary battle was described against the backdrop of a wide panorama of events that unfolded in the district centers of the Serpukhov and Vysokinichi in October 41st, the plots of the life of front-line Serpukhov, the military-administrative authority of the city, the composition of local military rifle formations, analyzes the disposition of the Red Army in the period 17-21 October 1941 at the line of defense according to the river. Protva