RP78LO Special Memorial station will be active from Troitsk city, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia, 1 - 9 May 2023, commemorating Victory in the Second World War.
QRV on HF Bands.
QSL via R2AE.
Information about RP78LO activity:
MOSCOW (VORONOVSKY) DEFENSIVE LINE
(the second line of defense of Moscow)
The units of the 93rd East Siberian Rifle Division that arrived at the Podolsk combat area on October 25, 1941, stopped the German advance near the village of Kresty and, after fierce fighting, threw them over the Desenka River and to the Nara River, gaining a foothold at the Kamenka-Gorka line, tightly closing the Warsaw Highway. The command of the 43rd Army did not rule out the possibility of further attempts by German troops to break through to the highway from other directions of the front.
One of such sites could be the left flank of the defense of the Naro-Fominsk direction, the boundary of which passed along the Nara River. Here the Moscow militia - the 113th (Frunzensky district) and 110th (Kuibyshev district) rifle divisions of the 33rd Army fought stoutly against the Germans. It was not excluded that the enemy would seek to break through the defenses of these divisions in the area of the villages of Romanovo, Melnikov, Kamenskoye, Sliznevo and advance towards the settlements of Plaksino, Machikhino, Zinaevka, Butyrki, Svitino, Yuryevka, then to Kosovka and Voronovo - on the Kaluga highway (old Kaluga road) and Warsaw highway in the area the villages of Yasenki and Lukoshkino, thus bypass the defensive line of Kamenka-Kresty and further develop the offensive on Krasnaya Pakhra and Podolsk.
Therefore, the Soviet command took urgent measures to build the Voronovsky defensive line - the 2nd line of defense of the 43rd Army. The boundary passed along the eastern bank of the Voronok River, along the course from the Crosses - through the villages of Krutovka (Lviv), Semenkovo, Kosovka, Voronovo, then along the northern bank of the Mocha River near the village of Bezrazovo. Here, defensive structures were built throughout, consisting of trenches, long-term reinforced concrete firing points (machine-gun "nests") — pillboxes, wooden-earth firing points - bunkers, interconnected by deep communication passages. Barriers of three to five rows of barbed wire were stretched along the opposite banks of the rivers, and in front of them all approaches were mined.
Bridges were blown up in Voronovo and Kosovka.
QRV on HF Bands.
QSL via R2AE.
Information about RP78LO activity:
MOSCOW (VORONOVSKY) DEFENSIVE LINE
(the second line of defense of Moscow)
The units of the 93rd East Siberian Rifle Division that arrived at the Podolsk combat area on October 25, 1941, stopped the German advance near the village of Kresty and, after fierce fighting, threw them over the Desenka River and to the Nara River, gaining a foothold at the Kamenka-Gorka line, tightly closing the Warsaw Highway. The command of the 43rd Army did not rule out the possibility of further attempts by German troops to break through to the highway from other directions of the front.
One of such sites could be the left flank of the defense of the Naro-Fominsk direction, the boundary of which passed along the Nara River. Here the Moscow militia - the 113th (Frunzensky district) and 110th (Kuibyshev district) rifle divisions of the 33rd Army fought stoutly against the Germans. It was not excluded that the enemy would seek to break through the defenses of these divisions in the area of the villages of Romanovo, Melnikov, Kamenskoye, Sliznevo and advance towards the settlements of Plaksino, Machikhino, Zinaevka, Butyrki, Svitino, Yuryevka, then to Kosovka and Voronovo - on the Kaluga highway (old Kaluga road) and Warsaw highway in the area the villages of Yasenki and Lukoshkino, thus bypass the defensive line of Kamenka-Kresty and further develop the offensive on Krasnaya Pakhra and Podolsk.
Therefore, the Soviet command took urgent measures to build the Voronovsky defensive line - the 2nd line of defense of the 43rd Army. The boundary passed along the eastern bank of the Voronok River, along the course from the Crosses - through the villages of Krutovka (Lviv), Semenkovo, Kosovka, Voronovo, then along the northern bank of the Mocha River near the village of Bezrazovo. Here, defensive structures were built throughout, consisting of trenches, long-term reinforced concrete firing points (machine-gun "nests") — pillboxes, wooden-earth firing points - bunkers, interconnected by deep communication passages. Barriers of three to five rows of barbed wire were stretched along the opposite banks of the rivers, and in front of them all approaches were mined.
Bridges were blown up in Voronovo and Kosovka.