Heroes of the Battle of Crimea. Rubtsov Yu.

Tavrida... So the ancient Greeks called the Crimean Peninsula. The same name was adopted in the Russian Empire after the accession of Crimea in 1783. The blessed Crimean land attracted the greedy eyes of the conquerors. The peninsula, first of all, the cradle of the Black Sea Fleet Sevastopol survived two heavy wars in the fight against foreigners - the Crimean 1853-1856 and the Great Patriotic War. Without an exaggeration of abundant Russian blood, the epic of Taurida/Crimea was written in 1941-1944, when fierce battles and battles with German and Romanian invaders unfolded in the territory of the peninsula and in the water area of ​​the Black and Azov Seas. The combat affairs of the defenders of the Crimea will forever remain in history. There are hundreds of thousands of them, and behind the story of the heroes of this book - Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky, generals I.E. Petrov, D. T. Kozlov, Ya. G. Kreizer, P.K. Koshev, officers L. M. Pavlichenko, A. Ya. Leshchenko, A.K. Abdrakhmanov - the collective and immortal feat of the people arises.