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| August 6, 1915: Defense of the Osowiec fortress |
| 2024-08-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from a V Kontakte post by Informant on history. [VK] On August 6, 1915, during the First World War, during the defense of the Osowiec fortress on the Eastern Front, after a German gas attack, about fifty Russian soldiers of the 13th company of the 226th Zemlyansky regiment in a desperate counterattack were able to overthrow the advancing German battalions. The small Russian fortress of Osowiec was an important point of defense of western borders of the Russian Empire, it was located on the Bobra River near the town of Osowice (now Poland) west of the city of Bialystok. Built 23 km from the then border with East Prussia, it was intended to defend the strategic corridor between the Neman and Vistula-Narev-Bug rivers and "locked" the railway and highway routes to Bialystok. |
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