Monument to the commander of the 67th Red Army Rifle Division N. Dedayev
To the north of the South Fort is the largest cemetery in Liepāja - the Central Cemetery. In the southern part of the cemetery there is a Red Army cemetery, where Soviet soldiers who died in the vicinity of Liepāja are reburied, including the commander of the 67th Rifle Division, Major General Nikolai Dedaev, who led the defence of Liepāja in June 1941.
On the early morning of June 24, 1941, an attack by a unit of the 505th Infantry Regiment of the 291st Infantry Division of the German Army under the command of Colonel K. Lomeijer near the Middle Fort of Liepāja Fortress began, after the capture of Priekule and Grobiņa. The first attack was unsuccessful and another attack was scheduled for the morning of 25 June. During this time, northwest of the Middle Fort at the command post of the 67th Rifle Division, which was located in the artillery ammunition depot of Liepāja Fortress No. 8 (now Grīzupes Street), several German artillery shells were hit and Major General N. Dedayev was injured. N. Dedayev died in a naval hospital and was buried near the brothers' cemetery. He was reburied in Tosmare Cemetery in 1947, and in 1977 in the Central Cemetery near the Southern Fort. Despite the losses of the Soviets, the German units also failed to break through the embankment of the Liepāja fortress on June 25. The battles in Liepaja ended on June 27 and 28, when Soviet units tried to break north.
In the southern part of the central cemetery, there is a monument to Major General N. Dedayev in the cemetery of the Red Army soldiers.
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Liepaja Fortress South Fort and monument to N. Dedaev, commander of the 67th Rifle Division of the Red Army
The South Fort of Liepaja Fortress is located in the south-western part of Liepaja, between Klaipėda Street and the beach.
A fort was planned to protect the port of Emperor Alexander III from the south, two kilometres from the southern border of the city. The fort was to be located between Liepāja Lake and the sea, west of the outlet of the Thunder River, reinforcing the reinforced concrete fortifications with a moat. Although the fortifications were almost completely finished, the armaments had not been...
Liepaja Fortress Middle Fort and Monument to the Soldiers of the Red Army
The most dangerous direction of attack for the port of Emperor Alexander III was from the east between the lakes of Tosmare and Liepāja, where there was a 2.5 km wide strait of land. Three fortifications were built to defend the land strip. On the southern shore of Lake Tosmare there was a left redoubt, on the northern shore of Lake Liepāja a right redoubt, and between the redoubts there was a Middle Fort. The Middle Fort was the most serious fortification of the Liepaja Fortress, but it was not fully completed and artillery was not deployed until 1908.
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