Right folks, so I've been playing Red Orchestra 2, bless its cotton socks and all, which completely rekindled my interest in the Battle of Stalingrad.
One of the maps was the famous Pavlov's House (named for Sgt Pavlov, who led the defence of it for a while) and 9th January square et al. It's a nicely made map, and seems reasonably realistic, from the period sketchmaps which are available online. One of the objectives on the map is a second, slightly smaller building, named Zab's house, short for Zabolotny, who I believe was a Lieutenant. Other than that there seems to be very little to get there. Wiki barely mentions Zab's House in its article on Pavlov's house; Antony Beevor barely mentions Pavlov's house in passing.
The internet offers up only that it was held at the same time, used the same communications trench as Pavlov's house and was eventually flattened by arty.
I was thinking, there must surely be more about this place out there, possibly in Russian. Does anyone know anything else about Zabolotny's house? How long did it hold? Why was it crushed by arty but not the bigger, more serious threat, Pavlov's house? How many men garrisoned it? Was it subject to many infantry attacks before it was bombed? Anything at all that anyone knows would be appreciated, purely because I'm a history nerd. Cheers awfully!
Here are some pictures for your trouble.. Dom Pavlova and Dom Zabolotny are on the lower right of the below map.
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Topic: Stalingrad: Pavlov's house and Zabolotny's house (Read 9744 times)
