Air attacks by German aviation on Gorky during World War II
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Bombing of Gorky
Part of the Strategic bombing during World War II
Soldiers of the 322nd Rifle Division, before going to the front. November of 1941. Soviet Square, Gorky
Date
November 4, 1941 - June 23, 1943
Location
Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Result
Soviet Victory
Belligerents
Red Army
Luftwaffe
Strength
The 784th anti-aircraft artillery regiment
515 antiaircraft guns
17 radars
231 anti-aircraft searchlight
107 barrage balloons
47 fighter planes
Bomber groups KG 27 and KG 55
Casualties and losses
Military losses:
28
Civilian losses:
590[1]
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t
e
Eastern Front
Naval warfare
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Arctic Ocean
1941
Barbarossa
Brest
Białystok–Minsk
1st Baltic
Brody
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
1st Smolensk
Uman
Odessa
1st Kiev
Tallinn
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
1st Kharkov
1st Crimea
Sevastopol
Rostov
Gorky
Moscow
Finland
Kerch
Chechnya
Air war 1941
1942
Lyuban
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya
Rzhev
Toropets–Kholm
Demyansk
Kholm
2nd Kharkov
Case Blue
Caucasus
Rzhev–Sychyovka
Sinyavino
Stalingrad
Velikiye Luki
Mars
Little Saturn
1943
Iskra
Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh
Voronezh–Kharkov
Polar Star
3rd Kharkov
Gorky Blitz
Kursk
1st Donbas
Belgorod-Kharkov
2nd Donbas
2nd Smolensk
Lenino
Dnieper
Nevel
2nd Kiev
1944
Dnieper–Carpathian
Leningrad–Novgorod
Narva
2nd Crimea
1st Jassy–Kishinev
Karelia
Bagration
Lvov–Sandomierz
Doppelkopf
2nd Jassy–Kishinev
Dukla Pass
2nd Baltic
Belgrade
Debrecen
Petsamo–Kirkenes
Courland
Gumbinnen
Budapest
1945
Vistula–Oder
Western Carpathian
East Prussia
Silesia
Breslau
Solstice
East Pomerania
Lake Balaton
Drava
Moravia–Ostrava
Vienna
Bratislava–Brno
Nagykanizsa–Körmend
Berlin
Prague
Prague uprising
Czech Radio
Slivice
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t
e
Operation Barbarossa
German declaration of war
Phase 1
Brest
Białystok–Minsk
1st Baltic
Raseiniai
Brody
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Mogilev
Phase 2
Smolensk
Roslavl–Novozybkov
Advance on Leningrad
Phase 3
Uman
Odessa
1st Kiev
Tallinn
Petrikowka
Yelnya
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
Phase 4
1st Kharkov
Beowulf
Donbas–Rostov
Bryansk
1st Crimea
Sevastopol
Tikhvin
1st Rostov
Bombing of Gorky
Moscow
Air war
Air war 1941
Air war 22 june 1941
Main article: History of Nizhny Novgorod
The bombing of Gorky by the German Luftwaffe was the most destructive attack on Soviet war production on the Eastern Front in World War II. It lasted intermittently from October 1941 - June 1943, with 43 raids carried out.
The main target was the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ), which was manufacturing T-60 light infantry tanks. Defences proved inadequate, though a full-size dummy model of the main factory, and a ‘false village’ of painted images on the ground, caused some confusion to enemy pilots. The whole plant was eventually destroyed, and an inquiry immediately demanded by Stalin. The plant was reconstructed in four months.
Gorky is the name of Nizhny Novgorod in 1932–1990, a city located deep in European Russia.
^"Спецпроект "Регион в цифрах": бомбардировка города Горький". vestinn.ru. May 6, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
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