1740. Исаев А.В.: Гибель комкора. Судьба М.Г. Хацкилевича и 6 МК в Белоруссии

Issue 1740. May 20, 2026. "The Death of a Corps Commander. The Fate of M.G. Khatskilevich and the 6th Motorized Rifle Regiment in Belarus." How the 6th Mechanized Corps of the Red Army was formed in 1940, why on June 23, 1941 the 6th Mechanized Corps was right to go against Guderian, about the main problem of "headquarters blindness" of 1941, why Khatskilevich's corps was deployed for a counterattack on Grodno, why the Germans loved to cut the encirclement of Soviet troops in half, how controllable was the 6th Mechanized Corps in the chaos of the first days, where the tankers got fuel, about the actions of von Richthofen's 8th Air Corps, why Khatskilevich's Soviet tankers carried out the first attack at dusk, about the "too long" day of June 24, 1941, about the vulnerabilities of Soviet tanks, why the commander of the Western Front D.G. Pavlov ordered Khatskilevich's corps to immediately withdraw from the battle near Grodno, how Soviet tankers managed to turn around and break through, the death and funeral of Tank General M.G. Khatskilevich, and the high professionalism of the 6th Mechanized Corps tankers during the June 1941 catastrophe—watch and listen to the latest interview in the series "Commanders of the Great Patriotic War. The Fates of Heroes." A guest of the Russian Radio University is Alexey Valerievich Isaev, PhD in History and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Military History of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The episode premiered on May 20, 2026.