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Chapter 30
Epigraph: General G. K. Zhukov, lecture given at a conference of the High Command of the Red Army,
December 26, 1940.
1. On the Eve of the War: Documents of the Red Army High Command Officers’ Conference, December 23–31,
1940, 153–54
2. Zhukov, Memoirs and Reflections, 191.
3. On the Eve of the War, 177.
4. Ibid., 255.
5. Ibid., 209–10.
6. Ibid., 210.
7. Ibid., 350.
8. VIZh, no. 12 (1986): 41.
9. On the Eve of War, 388–89.
10. VIZh, no. 2 (1992): 22.
11. VIZh, no. 1 (1990): 58.
12. Zolotarev, Krasnaya Zvezda, December 27, 1990.

Chapter 31
Epigraph: Field Statute of the Red Army, 1939, article 6.
1. Shirokorad, Ships and Cutters of the USSR Navy, 1939–1945, 741–46, 778–82. e most powerful
coastal monitors were of the Udarny and Zhelezniakov classes, with 252.5 tons’ and 263 tons’ displace-
ment and maximum armor of 12 mm and 30 mm, respectively. e Udarny class was armed with two
130-mm B-7 type cannon systems, 2 × 2 45-mm 41K type turrets, and 4 × 4 7.62-mm M-4 machine
gun systems. e Zhelezniakov class was armed with: 2 × 1 102/45-mm B-18 type turrets, 2 × 1 45/46-
mm 41K type turrets, 1 × 4 7.62-mm M-4 machine guns, and four 7.62-mm M-1 machine guns.
2. Shirokorad, Ships and Cutters of the USSR Navy, 1939–1945, 778–88; e Great Patriotic War, 1941–
1945: Encyclopedia, 255; A. Vakhmut, “First Days of War on the Danube,” VIZh, no. 9 (1970). e
Danube flotilla also included a special rifle company, the 17th Machine Gun Company, the 46th
Special Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion, a Danube shore defense sector consisting of six batteries of dif-
ferent calibers, and the 96th Fighter Squadron.
3. Stalin’s political report speech to the Central Committee of VKP 9(b) during the Twenty-fifth Congress
of the Communist Party, on December 3, 1927.
4. e Year 1941, 1: 377. Hitler expressed himself most clearly and completely in the course of his meeting
with Molotov on November 13, 1940.
5. You can find the full text of this document in the book Russian Archive, Great Patriotic General
Headquarters: Documents and Materials, 1941 (Moscow: Terra, 1996), 16: 56–57, “HQ Directive
#00226 to the Southern Front Commander, to counterstrike and reinforce defenses on the Prut
River.” To be precise, it was Directive #00226 from the General Headquarters. Stalin was a member of
Headquarters, and General Timoshenko was the chairman. Directive #00226 was signed by Zhukov.
Stalin, of course, was the real head of the Headquarters.
6. Zhukov, Memoirs and Reflections, 225.
7. Shirokorad, Ships and Cutters of the USSR Navy, 1939–1945, 741–56.
8. e construction of the Dnepr-Bug canal started back in 1775. After ten years, this artificial waterway
was officially commissioned as the Royal Canal; then it was abandoned. e restoration of the canal
started in 1837, with the main work conducted in 1846–48. From 1851, the canal served as the short-
est route between Eastern Europe and the Rhine-Atlantic waterway system. In 1918 and 1920, it was
completely abandoned once again. In 1940, the canal was restored and rebuilt: its dimensions were
brought to a level acceptable to the river-sea class combined navigation vessels. e total length of the
canal was combined from the channeled part of the Pina River (74 km), the canal waterway (58 km),
and the channeled part of the Mukhavets River (64 km).
9. VIZh, no. 7 (1984): 68.
10. A. V. Basov, e Navy in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945 (Moscow: Nauka, 1980), 138.
11. I. I. Azarov, Odessa under Siege (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1962), 3–8.