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Word: armavir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city. Below Moscow the preliminary disintegration of Germany's southern positions and communications proceeded: the Russians retook the important railway center of Kamensk, Voronezh and pressed on Voroshilovgrad, advanced from north and south toward the German's pinion position at Rostov. The fall of Salsk and Armavir gave the Red Army a tighter hold upon the railways of the Caucasus, increased the prospect that the retiring Axis forces there can only retreat across the Black Sea into the Crimea. Ever nearer was a Russian thrust into the Germans' Kharkov line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Ice-Cold Hand | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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