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On December 1 , our units went through Terijoki.
In pursuit of the retreating enemy, our units are moving forward.
The enemy blew up bridges, destroyed and mined roads, destroyed communications facilities.
The enemy made every effort to hinder the forward movement of our units.
But our sappers, heroic and untiring, repaired all that was destroyed by the enemy and ensured the steady movement of our units forward.
The weak ice could not prevent the advance of our supply columns.
For our units to advance across swamps and marshes, special timber roads had to be built.
Our sappers quickly learned to find mine fields and render them harmless.
Here they are... enemy landmines, on which the Finnish High Command laid very high hopes.
Artillery and aircraft provide cover for the activity of our sapper units.
Andrei V. Gudz, a junior sapper unit commander, awarded the Order of the Fighting Red Banner for valor in combat, was tasked to destroy anti-tank obstacles.
These obstacles are about to be blown up with captured Finnish mines!
Before retreating the Finns forced the civilian population to leave with them, burned houses, killed livestock.
Finnish prisoners of war
Continuing its steady movement forward, the Red Army repaired on its way telegraph and telephone lines, built new railways in place of destroyed ones.
Our frontline troops must be supplied with everything they need.
Between battles at frontline positions