Word: chernigov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fought their way to the gates of Chernigov, on a crucial all-weather highway...
Brilliant Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt had smashed across the Dnieper at two points. He drove southward from the Gomel sector and took Chernigov, 80 miles to the northeast of the Ukraine's capital, Kiev, whence he was in excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten...
...terrain from Chernigov to Kiev is marshy; that from Kremenchug is muddy. How much would marsh and mud help the Russians, hinder the Nazis...
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