It was a swift and bloody march from the south-eastern Moscow region through the Tula and Kaluga regions to the Smolensk region. A month of persistent and furious attacks during the Moscow counter-offensive, and then almost two years of positional battles in the area of Kirov and the Warsaw highway. And - a new breakthrough on the northern face of the Kursk Bulge. It was the soldiers of the 10th Army who had the opportunity to take the famous Nameless Height, the same one “near an unfamiliar village”, about which a song would be written soon after the war. In the book of the famous historian and writer, winner of the “Stalingrad” and “Prokhorovskoe Field” literary awards, Sergei Mikheenkov on Based on documents and testimonies of front-line soldiers, the story of this difficult campaign is told. A separate topic is the events related to the secret operations of the GRU in the so-called “Kirov corridor”, along which our reconnaissance and sabotage detachments and groups penetrated deep into the rear of German troops in the areas of Vyazma, Spas-Demensk, Bryansk and Roslavl. Another topic is the fate of the 11th separate penal battalion in the battles between Kirov and Roslavl. Declassified archives and revelations of participants in those events formed the basis for many chapters of this book.