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Bologoye
Bologoye is the city in the Tver region. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Bologoye was under the gun of the Wehrmacht. The enemy tried to wipe out the city, which was the most important strategic object on the Moscow-Leningrad railway. To destroy the Bologoye station, the Nazis threw more than 200 sabotage and reconnaissance groups and spies. From July 1941 to 1944, Bologoye withstood more than 600 raids by fascist aircraft. In 1943, Luftwaffe aviation division was transferred from France to destroy the Bologoye railway junction. For 10 days and nights, from 13 to 23 March, the German pilots dropped 1,811 bombs on the city. Access roads, parks, depot, and railway station were destroyed. Despite of all German command efforts, military echelons with people, equipment, ammunition, food went uninterruptedly to the Kalinin, Volkhov, Leningrad and Belorussian fronts through the largest railway junction between Moscow and Leningrad. Each time after the bombing, the Bologoye inhabitants, mainly women, old people and children, at the cost of incredible efforts under shelling, restored the railway communication. Brick, glass and fish factories worked in the city.
