Voennyi Sbornik

45-52

Authors: Sergei S. Belousov

This article examines the activities of the authorities for the protection of the civilian population to the Caucasian fortified frontier line of the territories from the raids of the highlanders during the Caucasian war. These raids became frequent in the late 1840s, therefore, the Astrakhan administration had to take urgent additional measures to strengthen administrative border with the Stavropol province. The author analyzes the activities of the authorities to strengthen the cordons, to assist the local population in the organization of self-defense from the highlanders, evaluation of the results of the efforts of the authorities on building the protection system, Gorsky raids. The article notes that there was no plan to counter the raids of the highlanders and the measures taken against them were a response and were not proactive in nature.

61-67

Authors: Maxim V. Medvedev

The beginning of 1943 was marked by considerable progress of the Red Army. Counterattack of the Soviet troops near Stalingrad has given the chance to strike new blow to the opponent on the southern and southwest directions of the Soviet-German front. The southern front created for the second time on the basis of the Stalingrad front and which is filled up with two armies of North Caucasus Front in January, 1943 came to the Rostov direction. After heavy fights in the mouth of the Seversky Donets and Manycha in January-February, 1943, troops of the Southern front have begun prosecutions of the receding German troops on the Rostov and Shakhty directions on purpose not to allow them to be fixed at a boundary of the Mius River. During the Rostov offensive operation (on January 1 – on February 17, 1943) armies of the Southern front have suffered heavy losses in staff and military equipment, have come off on hundreds of kilometers bases of supply. Troops of the Southern front were in great need in replenishment by staff, ammunition, tanks, in cover of land troops by aircraft, but the Rate of General headquarters demanded approach continuation. By the end of February, 1943 the personal and fighting structure of troops of the Southern front, despite mid-flight replenishments, was considerably reduced, operation on liberation of the Rostov region hasn't been complete.

95-101

Authors: Vladimir I. Afanasenko

In the course of conducting offensive and defensive operations, the warring parties are fighting losses. The ratio of losses of the attacking side, as a rule, is significantly more than the loss side of the defenders. This rule in the first period of the Great Patriotic War did not work. The Wehrmacht and its allies during the offensives in 1941-1942 suffered losses much smaller than the defending soviet troops. In January-February, 1943, in the course of Millero-Voroshilovgrad offensive operations of troops of the southwestern front, the loss ratio has changed. This testified to the growing fighting experience of command of formations and associations and the result of the use of tank and mechanized corps of the red army massively, as in breaking the enemy's defense, and the action behind the enemy lines.