Ivan Patryliak
PhD in History (Kyiv); Dean of the Faculty of History of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Chairman of the Academic Council of the Center for Liberation Movement Studies

The legend about the Orzhiv operation: How the Internal Troops of the NKVD accidentally killed Klym Savur

While reading this document, one gets the impression that the Orzhiv operation was similar in scale to the "battle for Berlin". Apparently, the Chekists did not want to lag behind the Red Army in the "victorious heat" and the banal accidental liquidation of "Savur" was described as a large-scale operation involving personally the highest command of the USSR State Security.