Soviet pontoon bridges or ferries over the Danube in January 1945

[Dunnigan]

Hi all,

Is there someone that knows all of the locations where the Soviets operated pontoon bridges, ferries, or any other crossings over the Danube during the German Konrad Operations in January 1945? This is excluding the bridges in Budapest that I knew were mostly blown by January 18 except the one southern train bridge that was blown earlier. I know the Esztergom/Parkany bridge was blown in late December before the Soviets crossed the Garam in strength and that the bridge at Tahitótfalu was not blown.

Based on information from Svámvéber's The Sword Behind the Shield and Ungváry's Budapest book, I see the Soviets having crossings at Adony, Dunaföldvar, Ercsi, Baja, Csepel, and Dunapentele. I know the Soviets blew the Dunaföldvar and Dunapentele pontoons when they were threatened by the Germans during Konrad III.

What I'm having trouble with is where one of the Soviet reinforcements looked to have crossed the Danube doesn't line up easily with the above sites. The 23rd Tank Corps crossed the Danube north of Budapest around January 23 around Szentendre then advanced to Etyek-Paty-Torbagy area. WHile the Tahitótfalu bridge over the Szentendrei-Dunaag was not blown, was there a ferry being operated over the Danube at Vác?

The 1st Guards Mechanized Corps assembled by Szalkszentmarton, Kunszentmiklos, and Kecskemet around Jan 3/4 and arrived in the Bicske area on Jan 5 so this looks to have crossed over at Dunapentele.

[GregSingh]

I searched only for 23rd Tank Corps and several pages of documents covering crossing of Danube are available at https://pamyat-naroda.ru
Eg. this one: https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=130222975
or this one: https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=134736883
There is also a 1:100000 Soviet map available after choosing a required time period:
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/warunit/23+%D1%82%D0%BA/

It seems that unit crossed Danube in several places.