What's new on
the pages?
February
4, 2004: First part of translation of report
By Komandarm 2nd Rank Voronov about experiences of Red Army in Winter
War
December
30, 2003: Original
battle reports by 2nd Lt. A. Paitula from Bunkers Sk5 and Sk6 for the
period of 01.02.1940 - 06.02.1940 are added.
October
13, 2003: New page about
Salmenkaita Fortified Area started.
For now there is a page with brief description of battles in the area, pages
about shore casemates, bunker
No. 15, bunker No.
36 and bunker No. 37
September
30, 2003: Memories of Lt. N.
A. Ponomarenko, 4th Artillery Battalion, 168th Super Heavy Artillery Regiment,
added to Memories page
September
9, 2003: Pictures and description of battles for the
bunker at shore of Muolaanjarvi lake and the bunker
at Kaivanto added to Muolaa fortified area pages
June
25, 2003: Memories
of Lieutenant Viktor M. Iskrov added to Personalities page.
March
26, 2003: Tauno Kähönen's
Continuation War gallery added. I know it is slightly off-topic for this
page, but the pictures would be interesting for those who study wars between
Finland and USSR in the 20th century.
March
13, 2003 - Two first-hand accounts added: "Scout at Summa
(censored)" by Jun Lt. Rebenok (from
Fighting in Finland book) and interview with I.
S. Chetyrbok "Scout at Summa (uncensored)"
March
5, 2003 - Description of monument
to the 2nd Heavy Artillery Battalion in Summa - Lahde sector added, along
with description of their last battle and several pictures.
February 24, 2003 -
Information and pictures about 8 bunkers in Muolaa sector added. Click on blue
bunker icons on map of Muolaa sector
February 14, 2003
- Maps of Summa village -
Lahde, Leipasuo
and Suurniemi
sectors in 1:20000 scale are added
February 9, 2003
- Information in Line Statistics corrected
and improved
February 6, 2003
- pages about battles in Muolaa sector added.
November 30, 2002
- photo
gallery of 461st Mobile Surgery Unit is added to the personalities section.
Around 30 pictures from the times of Winter War that have never been published
before.
November 26, 2002 - the
very first book in Russian on battles at Taipale is published by Kirill Yakimovich.
For information please contact the author at taipale@mail.ru
Some of the materials for the
book were provided by Mannerheim Line website.
November 3, 2002
- updates on pages of bunkers Sk2,
Sk5, Sk10
Kymppi, Sk11 Peltola and
Test bunker - layouts of
bunkers added
October 27, 2002 - updates
of Summakyla sector pages - descriptions of bunkers Sk2,
Sk3, Sk5,
Sk10, Sk12
were updated with new pictures.
October 1, 2002 - Memories
of Nikolai P. Bavin
in English added to the Personalities page.
September 11. 2002 - memories
of Gleb
F. Chistov, technician-commissary 2nd Rank, 70th Detached
automobile-sanitary platoon, 50th Rifle Corps, are added to Personalities section.
August 26, 2002 - page
about Sn1 bunker
added. Pictures are added to Sn4
and Sn5
pages.
August 15, 2002 - page
of Suurniemi
defense area is added. Pictures of bunkers No. 2 - No. 7,
ruins of Vaisanen building, fragments of Soviet T26 tank and Muolaanjarvi lake.
Page and pictures about Bunker No. 1 will be available soon.
July 30, 2002 - updates in pages
dedicated to Leipasuo sector. Pictures and descriptions added to pages of
Le6 and Le7
bunkers. Page about battles in Taasionlammet
lakes area added. Pictures of bunkers Le3 and Le4 added to main
page of Leipasuo sector.
June 27, 2002 - pages of
coastal forts along Vuoksi and Suvanto added. So far pages have pictures of
Lauttaniemi,
Noisniemi
and Patoniemi
forts kindly provided by Mr. Ove Enqvist and very basic information about the
forts
June 22, 2002 - new pictures
added to pages about Sj4 Poppius
bunker and Inkila sector
bunkers. Memories
of Georgi V. Prusakov, Medic of 100th Independent Ski Battalion,
added to Personalities section.
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Bair Irincheev 2001 - 2003