MOSCOW. July 3 (Interfax) - The Russian Defense Ministry has announced the launch of a multimedia project dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Minsk's liberation from German Nazi invaders and containing unique documents about Operation Bagration.
"The Russian Defense Ministry launches a new historical and educational project, Victorious Strikes of Bagration, with declassified archival documents on preparations and accomplishment of the Belarusian offensive operation Bagration, a major strategic operation of the Great Patriotic War, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of fraternal Belarus and the hero city Minsk from German Nazi invaders," the ministry said in a statement.
The website published orders of the Supreme Command Headquarters, operation plans, descriptions and maps of the hostilities, orders of commanding officers, award sheets for participants in the Minsk offensive, diagrams, unique photographs and other documents previously inaccessible to the general public.
The Red Army freed Minsk on July 3, 1944. Later on, it trapped and destroyed the most combat capable group of the German Center Army in pockets in Belarus. Operation Bagration is deemed to be the biggest achievement of the national art of war, the ministry said.