Hello!
I found an article ( http://duel.ru/200425/?25_6_2 ) writen by a russian officer P.P.Kutishenko (П.П.Кутышенко) about the first month after Germany attack on USSR.
He was the comander of 166th rifle regiment of 98th rifle division since 25 of June 1941.
Hi main story in the article was about what happened near village Borkovichi (White Russia) on the 13th of July 1941 about 03:00. Here is the link to the village location: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/BO/0/Borkovichi.html
He sais that they had intel about an oncomming German attack on the 13th of July. The plan was to conduct preventive counter attack on the night before. He had to lead 3 batallions in to the action.
He says they snikked in on the bottom of ravine behind the 1st and 2nd German trentch line and killed almost all of them with bayonets and likes. Germans started shooting at one point but one of the Red Army soldiers private Novikov, a german by nationality, shout in german: “We are Germans! Do not shoot!”. After that Germans stopped shooting and got killed.
He captured 2 stab cars where he found a case with documents and a battle banner of the German unit. While inspecting the cars Kutishenko was wounded - he got 3 bullets in the shin-bone on the left leg. He was evacuated and could never return back to action due to the injuriy.
98th division was wiped out under Smolensk.
Can anyone help to find out if this story is true. it is printed in a website that among some good materials also has a lot of crap.
I guess it would be possible to find out what German unit was located close to Borkovichi on 10 - 13 July 1941 and suffered big losses in a night surprise attack by Russians.