Troops of the NKVD in the Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad is an epoch -making event. Here, a radical fracture was outlined both in the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War. Here the Red Army turned from a retreating from Brest to the Volga into the advancing to Berlin, to victory. Therefore, deservedly military researchers, writers, memoirists, poets, artists often devote their work to those grandiose events, their heroes: infantrymen, gunners, tankers, sappers, scouts, military doctors, signalmen. However, other people, whose military work has not yet been covered or disclosed in the Stalingrad battle, has not yet been fully disclosed. This refers to the border and other troops of the NKVD. Until recently, their funds in the archives were closed and the events were forgotten. The book of N. Starikov tells about their contribution to the victory