According to intelligence, in the 1TD defense sector, the enemy occupies fortified positions north of Yazvishche. The days spent in defense by the division were used for the repair and preparation of equipment and weapons. 1TD is combat-ready enough to continue the offensive, despite the losses incurred in previous battles. 1TD takes defense on a bridgehead in the Bolshoy Sabsk area. Germans, stubbornly holding the bridgeheads at Ivanovka, Porechye, Bolshoy Sabsk, continued to accumulate infantry and tanks in the Porechye and Sabsk areas, preparing for a further offensive in the direction of Krasnogvardeysk. The German 1TD 41AC units captured bridgeheads on the bank of r.Luga in the area of Bolshoy Sabsk. Historical organizational structure of units at the time of the offensive.Precisely recreated area of over 120 sq.Two operations of 15 turns for each of the sides (Shefatov - Bezorukin, December 15-17, 1942) covering the Soviet offensive to Mozdok.The actions of 320RD forced the enemy to abandon Ishcherskaya and retreat to the 2nd line of defense: st.Stoderevskaya - Shefatov - Tomazov. Despite this, after three days of stubborn fighting, on December 9, the Krechetov defense sector of the enemy was captured and the division reached the Avalov-Shefatov line, with a front to the south and south-west. But the 481RR operating in the open area, came under attack of the enemy 3TD combat group and was defeated. Elements of the 18A, fought with the enemy in the Kamenistaya and Semashkho mountains area.ģ20RD 44A, relieved the elements of the battered 402RD, and in the morning of December 6 went on the offensive in the Krechetov area. At the same time, the Black Sea Group of Forces continued to conduct the Tuapse defensive operation, defending the occupied lines in the Tuapse direction. Troops of the northern group of the Transcaucasian Front (44A together with elements of 58A) launched an offensive on the northern bank of r.Terek, striking in the general direction of Mozdok. In early December 1942, an operation began to destroy the Ishcherskaya-Mozdok group of the enemy.