I found my great uncle on a Russian site that show the documents of Soviet WW2 soldiers. The docs say he (as an officer) led a group of sabateurs behind enemy lines and gives a list of the things they blew up in the space of a few months: 6 locomotives, a railway bridge, a highway bridge, several train cars full of troops, more full of policmen, cars full of munitions, a train hauling artillery pieces, etc. Some of my family members think this sounds pretty far-fetched for a single band of sabateurs. I've argued that the overwhelming amount of other records I've seen are "realitics." The site is podvignaroda.ru
I an't comment on that specific incident, but certainly exaggeration, if not outright fabrication, for propaganda purposes was fairly common in Soviet patriotic literature of the period. I discussed this previously in the context of Snipers and the 'cult of Sniperism' here which might be of interest to you.