August 1944 · autumn 1944 – winter 1945 The front stops on the OndavaFront zastal na Ondave

In August 1944, as the Slovak National Uprising broke out, a partisan group under the name Martinov was parachuted into the country between Stropkov and Humenné, and this district became one of the main areas of partisan activity in the east. From the autumn the Carpathian–Dukla operation pushed the front into the hills above the town — and it did not move quickly. The fighting went on for months and Stropkov was badly damaged. It was taken by troops of the 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts together with the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps, and afterwards the town was decorated for the part its people took in the fighting. Almost everything in the centre today was built after that.V auguste 1944, keď vypuklo Slovenské národné povstanie, bola do priestoru medzi Stropkovom a Humenným vysadená partizánska skupina Martinova a okres sa stal jedným z hlavných ohnísk partizánskej činnosti na východe. Od jesene tlačila karpatsko-duklianska operácia front do kopcov nad mestom — a ten sa nehýbal rýchlo. Boje trvali mesiace a Stropkov bol ťažko poškodený. Oslobodili ho vojská 1. a 4. ukrajinského frontu spolu s 1. československým armádnym zborom a mesto bolo za účasť svojich obyvateľov v oslobodzovacom boji vyznamenané. Takmer všetko, čo dnes v centre stojí, je postavené až po tom.