"Our fighting these days has utterly deranged the enemy attack". The specific features of advance on Smolensk by the operational group of Lieutenant General V.Ya. Kachalov in July 1941
The paper offers analysis of combat by the operational group of the 28th Army under the command of Lieutenant General V. Ya. Kachalov in the 1941 Battle of Smolensk, which contrived to draw off and pin down the enemy forces inflicting tangible losses on the latter.