On August 24 the command issued an order to capture the city of Bobruisk. The attack was supposed to start on the 27th, but due to the assignment of the first tank regiment to the 2nd Tank Company under command of the French captain Jean Dufour, they were postponed to the next day. Tanks to the target station Jasien arrived only 27 August at 20:30, their landing was completed at 22 o'clock. The attack was to be conducted in three groups.

Bobrujsk defended by the 67th and 68th regimental shooters of the 8th Rifle Division, two battalions of sailors, 3 armored trains, 4 guns and 25 machine guns - a total of 2,500 soldiers occupying positions in the trenches remaining after the First World War, on the eastern bank of Wolaczanka. Constant artillery fire and a series of barbed wire defended the crossing of the river ....

