What is DOT? What quantity of bunkers was in the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941?

DET - an abbreviation which has two values: Pillbox or permanent defensive point. This is a rather small safe and permanent structure, the main task of which is a long-term defense and firing at the enemy.

The main building material was a concrete bunker. DOT concrete erected two ways - the solution was poured with the use of metal or assembled from solid blocks. There was a third embodiment DET - metal structure with armored closures. However, such facilities have already received a different name - "armored covers."

DoTs are divided into five types:
1. Bunkers flanking (kosopritselnogo) fire, they are divided into:
- caponiers,
- polukaponiry;
2. DotA front of fire;
3. Odnokazematnye (small) dots;
4. Command and observation posts;
5. "False" pillboxes.

Russia is not the first light began to apply this type of fortifications. Palm belongs to Poland, which is still the 1920s, has gone far in perod by improving and applying new design DOT. Then Germany and France took up the idea and applied at the device state borders. In the early 1930s, it built the "Stalin Line" - a line of defense and strengthening of the western border of the Soviet Union (the Baltic countries). In the period 1941 to 1945 on the territory of the USSR the number of bunkers has increased a hundred times.

Soviet typical DOT sample in 1962, became the most successful performance of buildings. In the period from 1965 to 1973 were a considerable number were built in the fortification areas along the Sino-Soviet border from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. On its basis in 1996, it was developed by the DEA - Universal pillbox "Gorceac".

From the shores of the Baltic Sea to the shores of the Black Sea to the summer of 1941, it passed the target building bunkers across the state border, as well as on the border with Finland. Built sploshnyakom course not, and at a considerable distance, and especially paid attention to the places alleged attacks of the enemy in the event of hostilities. By the beginning of World War II in combat readiness on the western front line was located 310 bunkers. And on the lines of the Southwestern Front we had to be on full alert 371 DOT. In fact, in the period of the outbreak of hostilities, in alertness it was much smaller bunkers.

The heroism of the soldiers standing on the defense of the homeland and fight with the enemy fortified areas of admiration and pride. On the Internet, there is a detailed description of many battles, described by his contemporaries - WWII heroes!

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