ABSTRACT
DOCUMENT 96: To the military soviets of the Leningrad Military District and NorthWestern Front on preparation of defensive positions along the line Pskov, Ostrov, Opochka, Sebezh, 29 June 1941
The People’s Commissar for Defence decrees: 1. To re-subordinate the Pskov-Ostrov Fortified District to the military soviet of
the North-Western Front. 2. Using the resources of construction battalions, the Directorate of Field Construc-
tion [UPS], construction sites and the local population to build, in addition to the Fortified Districts fortified field positions on the line Pskov, Ostrov, Opochka, Sebezh. In the first instance anti-tank obstacles are to be constructed and all reinforced concrete positions of the Fortified Districts are to be brought to readiness.
