Word: baku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baku, en route to Moscow, TIME & LIFE Correspondent Richard Lauterbach was followed in the street by as many as 70 children, asking questions about the U.S. Militiamen finally had to break up the crowd. Adults also were voluble and curious. Russian questions...
...victory meant much more than the destruction of a great army. It meant the complete failure of Hitler's 1942 strategy in Russia: to outflank Moscow from the south, render the Volga lifeline useless to the Russians and secure the German flank driving through the Caucasus toward Baku and the Middle East. It also meant that the Red Armies defending Stalingrad and the Volga were free to push west and join the armies smashing at Rostov and Kharkov...
...Much of Soviet industry had been evacuated to the Urals and Siberia, where it was producing more tons of products than all Soviet pre-war industry. >In Magnitogorsk a giant new blast furnace had been blown in, a strange, but fitting, Christmas present from the Russian people to themselves. >Baku oil production was 40% above...
Slowly and at great cost, the Germans have advanced in the central and eastern Caucasus to within 150 miles of Makhach-Kala on the Caspian, where the best shore route to Baku begins. They have the Malgobek oilfield near Mozdok, but they do not have the Grozny fields, although the Russians last week admitted that in that sector they were still retiring. The Germans also advanced past Nalchik toward Ordzhonikidze...
Geographically, the easier invasion route is eastward through Grozny to the Caspian, thence south along the coast to Baku. Here again nature aids Russia. Halfway down the coast toward Baku is the Derbent gateway, where impenetrable mountains narrow the coastal shelf to a six-mile strip. Nature's fortifications have been improved by man, making Derbent a formidable obstacle...