On August 26, 1943, on the day the Chernihiv-Pripyat offensive operation began, the Military Council of the Central Front appealed to privates, sergeants and officers: "The motherland expects us to completely defeat the vile enemy. In the July battles, the troops, having defeated the best German divisions with their vaunted equipment, with "tigers" and "ferdinads," and having liberated hundreds of native villages and cities, proved that Fritz could be beaten all year round..." This book for the first time tells in full detail about this successful operation of the Red Army, during which Chernigov was liberated and bridgeheads on the Dnieper and Pripyat rivers were captured. Crossing the Dnieper by the troops of K.K. Rokossovsky simultaneously in several places entered the world history of wars as an outstanding example of overcoming the largest water obstacle on the move. A well-known military historian, on the basis of both Soviet and German archival documents (magazines of hostilities, reports, orders, reports of the Wehrmacht, trophy materials from the fund 500 TsAMO RF), covers in detail the battles in the area of ​ ​ Sevsk, Novgorod-Seversky, Nizhyn, Chernigov, Gomel and on the Dnieper bridgeheads in the period August-September 1943, including establishing the numbers and losses of both sides. The publication is illustrated with color schemes and combat maps.