The paratroopers of the Azov Flotilla landed on August 30, 1943 near Taganrog. The operation aimed to retake German-occupied Taganrog. After the capture of Azov and Azovsky District by the German forces, the Azov Flotilla relocated to the Black Sea near Novorossiysk, where battles of a lodgement near cape Myskhako (Malaya Zemlya (Russian: Малая Земля, lit. "Minor Land")) continued.