Hungarian soldiers file across the newly constructed pontoon bridge over the Southern Bug river in the vicinity of the occupied town of Vinnitsa; Ukraine, 1941.

Across the Bug with dry feet

Hungarian Honvéd

After a fierce battle in the summer of 1942, the Hungarian army captured the Russian town of Stary Oskol, situated on the Oskol river. On the way to the east, and the Don river, the town was of great importance for both the Hungarian and German armies. The captured town housed two military hospitals, where many lives were saved during the war.
The Oskol river flows through Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts in Russia, and through the eastern part of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine, where it joins the Seversky Donets river. 
There are several towns along the Oskol river, Stary Oskol is one of them.
