• Ponyri (Russian: Поныри) is the name of several inhabited localities in Kursk Oblast, Russia. Urban localities Ponyri, Ponyrovsky District, Kursk Oblast...
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    stalling, and the XLI Panzer Corps reached the heavily fortified small town of Ponyri, in the second defensive belt, which controlled the roads and railways leading...
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    stalling, and the XLI Panzer Corps reached the heavily fortified small town of Ponyri, in the second defensive belt, which controlled the roads and railways leading...
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    52°19′00″N 36°18′00″E / 52.31667°N 36.30000°E / 52.31667; 36.30000 Ponyri is an urban-type settlement in the Ponyrovsky District of the Kursk Oblast...
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    country all the way to Kursk. The direction of advance was then switched to Ponyri, to the west of Olkhovatka, but the 9th Army could not break through here...
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  • Ponyri (Russian: Поныри) is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bolshezhirovsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. The population...
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    of the XXIII Corps of the Ninth Army, being involved in the fighting at Ponyri. During the following Soviet Counteroffensive the division was first transferred...
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    day. Walter Model ordered the capture of the key and heavily fortified Ponyri railway station, which was needed to continue the advance towards Kursk...
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  • Brigade, 2nd Tank Army. Potapov's battery destroyed ten German tanks near the Ponyri railway station at the Battle of Kursk. Captain Potapov was killed during...
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    at Smolensk, Kromy, and Bryansk. In April 1943, it fought in Sevsk and Ponyri. Later, the XXXXI Panzer Corps fought at the Battle of Kursk. During this...
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    disabled and destroyed 'Ferdinands' of 5./schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 654 at Ponyri railway station during operation 'Zitadelle' The Tank Museum (UK) "Tank...
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  • helping defend the Soviet trenches during the Battle of Kursk, securing Ponyri's streets, destroying German panzer tanks in Prok, and assaulting and defending...
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  • Division as part of the 13th Army participated in the Battle of Kursk near the Ponyri – Olhovatka. In the heavy fighting the offensive of German troops, who used...
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    settlement) of Ponyri. Population: 10,893 (2021 Census); 11,778 (2010 Census); 13,553 (2002 Census); 15,694 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Ponyri accounts...
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  • Pryamitsyno 22569 Ponyrovsky District Поныровский район work settlement of Ponyri 11778 Pristensky District Пристенский район work settlement of Pristen 16893...
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    Airborne Division – established at Zvenigorod December 1942. Fought at Ponyri, Kursk, Korsun, and in the Carpathians. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th...
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  • vicinity of Maloarkhangelsk. On 6 July, I. Gruppe targeted the airspace near Ponyri and during multiple combat missions claimed 29 aerial victories which included...
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  • of Maloarkhangelsk. The next day, I. Gruppe targeted the airspace near Ponyri and during multiple combat missions claimed 29 aerial victories which included...
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  • (Поныровский) Urban-type settlements under the district's jurisdiction: Ponyri (Поныри) with 13 selsovets under the district's jurisdiction. Pristensky...
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  • withdrawing all three of the Front's armies beyond the Voroshilovo Station–Ponyri–Lgov line. Despite this, by the end of October 7 the encircled troops continued...
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  • an apprentice of a telegraph operator, then a telegraph operator at the Ponyri Station of the Kursk Railway, Kursk Station. February – December 1918 –...
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  • near Ponyri and during multiple combat missions claimed 29 aerial victories which included a La-5 shot down by Scheel at 11:48 northeast of Ponyri. On...
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  • assigned the division to his 65th Army. The plan for the Army was to hold at Ponyri while attacking westward beginning on February 24, ultimately advancing...
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  • smashed the enemy's Oryol grouping," to take up a line from Mtsensk to Ponyri to Lgov, covering the direction toward Tambov and Voronezh. Oryol fell on...
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  • of Kursk, Straßl was killed in aerial combat with Soviet fighters near Ponyri. Straßl was born on 24 May 1918 at Linz, Austria. Following completion of...
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    White rear, inflicting great damage on the retreating Whites. They took Ponyri on 4 November and Fatezh on 5 November. The 14th Army captured Sevsk on...
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  • Stalingrad. It fought in the Battle of Kursk, defending positions around Ponyri on the northern face of the Kursk Bulge, and was awarded the Order of the...
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  • Shock Army. In late March, the division was relocated to the 13th Army at Ponyri in the Kursk Bulge. From 5 to 12 July, the division fought in the Battle...
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  • Central Front from 5 July, repulsing six days of German attacks in the Ponyri sector. The division was withdrawn to the front reserve on 11 July and from...
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    unit in the Demyansk Offensive in late February 1943, then helped defend Ponyri during the Battle of Kursk. The division fought in Operation Kutuzov and...
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