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(4 - 6) Vyazma Summer

Vyazma was one of many urban targets that had to be taken before Moscow would fall. Isolated by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, and cut-off entirely from Bryansk, which was suffering its own siege, the defenders of Vyazma had no choice but to slow their opponents, in the hope that they would be reinforced. Like many other settlements on the Western front of the Blitzkrieg, there was little time to prepare; civilians were often denied evacuation, defences were hastily thrown together, and Soviet military leaders were few.