Qualla: Siege of Mogilev https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/t/d/siege-of-mogilev-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Siege of Mogilev https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev Siege of Mogilev: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev/ Photo credit Uran92, CC BY-SA 3.0. Late on the night of 26 July 1941, with their ammunition gone, their food gone, and the wounded left behind in the city's hospitals with the doctors who refused to abandon them, the surviving Soviet defenders of Mogilev tried to break out. The order had not come from above. General Fyodor Bakunin had given it himself, in defiance of Stavka, because the alternative was to be killed in place. A small number got through. Most did not. By the time Heinz Guderian's panzers had finished consolidating their hold on the city, German troops reported 35,000 prisoners and 245 captured guns. Soviet propaganda would soon call the place Gallant Mogilev and the Belarusian Madrid. The men who held it for those three weeks earned both names.

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/t/d/siege-of-mogilev-wp/u9td-siege-of-mogilev-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Mogilev: Before Barbarossa Crashed Through https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev/ Photo credit Livedawg, CC BY-SA 3.0. Mogilev sits on a high right bank above the Dnieper River in eastern Belarus, the kind of position that has decided campaigns for centuries. In late June 1941, with Operation Barbarossa already a week old and Soviet armies disintegrating across the western frontier, Red Army troo...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/t/d/siege-of-mogilev-wp/u9td-siege-of-mogilev-before-barbarossa-crashed-through.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Mogilev: The Pocket Closes https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev/ Photo credit Livedawg, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 13 July, the SS Das Reich Motorized Division took blocking positions north of Chausy. The next day the XXIV Motorized Corps drove east from the Bykhov bridgehead. By 15 July, with Chausy and Propoysk in German hands, the encirclement was complete. Inside the pocket sat the 61s...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/t/d/siege-of-mogilev-wp/u9td-siege-of-mogilev-the-pocket-closes.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Mogilev: Ten Days https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev/ Photo credit Livedawg, CC BY-SA 3.0. The German VII Army Corps under Wilhelm Fahrmbacher took over the assault on 20 July, attacking with the 7th and 23rd Infantry Divisions from the west. The first frontal assault was repulsed by Soviet artillery and entrenched riflemen. So the Germans crossed the Dnieper above and...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/t/d/siege-of-mogilev-wp/u9td-siege-of-mogilev-ten-days.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Mogilev: Breakout https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev/ Photo credit Livedawg, CC BY-SA 3.0. Late on 25 July, the defenders had no more ammunition, no more food, and no more fuel. Bakunin gave the order to break out east on the night of 26-27 July. He did this without authorization from higher headquarters; the Stavka had ordered the city held to the last man. Thousands ...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/t/d/siege-of-mogilev-wp/u9td-siege-of-mogilev-breakout.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Mogilev: What It Bought https://qualla.com/siege-of-mogilev/ Photo credit Livedawg, CC BY-SA 3.0. The defense of Mogilev cost the Wehrmacht more than 1,000 dead in the 23rd Infantry Division alone, tied down four German infantry divisions for the better part of two weeks, and prevented the use of the city's bridges across the Dnieper for that whole period. The German Second A...

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