August 27, 1941, the fifth day of July (Government House), the German tide over the Dnieper.


1941 August 27, 2011, Joseph Stalin reorganization of the armed forces is difficult to resist the German attack on Smolensk continuous. After three weeks fighting hard this important railway hub and industrial center fall into enemy hands.
Germans only 320 miles away from Moscow. The past two months, the Germans completed the border to two-thirds of the capital from the march, flexible tactics of the Germans and the heavy artillery to defeat the Russian army. Germans in a marshy area after the attack, across the Dnieper. Subsequently erected on the river pontoon. Despite the impressive victory, but the Germans difficult to coordinate its offensive front in Russia's southern and northern segments.