title: Assault on the «Blue Line» as the Final Stage of the Battle for the Caucasus in 1943
abstract: The article examines the confrontation between Soviet and German troops in the Kuban in the spring and summer of 1943. During them, the Wehrmacht solved the strategic task of holding the Kuban bridgehead for the protection of the Crimea and
   the subsequent transition to the off ensive. The aim of the authors is to comprehensively study this stage of the battle for the Caucasus in 1942–1943. The features of the creation of the defensive line of the German army, the stages of the assault on the Bl
journal: Naučnaâ mysl Kavkaza