Word: chita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fronts on which Soviet Russia expects to have to fight in the event of another war: North army, based on Leningrad; Western army, based on Minsk; Southern army, based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight hundred thousand men in this army of 1,800,000 are "mobile...
...which, for all its fearsome reputation, is more like Nebraska and the Dakotas than the Sahara). An alternate rail line, several hundred miles inside the Russian border, is far from completion. Itagaki's invaders, attacking the Trans-Siberian, will also be assaulting Russian Asia's key cities: Chita, a junction point on the Trans-Siberian; Khabarovsk, a new factory center which is also the headquarters of General Stern's armies; Blagoveshchensk, now almost within shell range of the Japanese in extreme northern Manchukuo; and, well beyond the Far Eastern border, the new steel & oil city of Komsomolsk...
Threatened with the loss of the Burma Road, Chungking talked of leaning more heavily on the long-way-round supply line that helped greatly when Britain closed the Burma Road last year-the 3,100-mile rail and caravan route from Vladivostok to Chita and Lanchow. But last week Soviet Russia and Japan sat down to negotiate a trade treaty-which might lead to the long-prophesied non-aggression pact and the closing of Vladivostok to supplies for China...
This put new emphasis on the roundabout northern way-into Vladivostok, by rail to Chita or Verkhne Udinsk, thence by mechanical and animal caravan down the Mongolian desert to China, 3,700 miles in all from Vladivostok to Chungking. Links in the route were not exactly new; their origins as a pack trail predated Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and the mighty Chin. About three years ago the Chinese began to fix up the road, stringing repair shops, gasoline dumps and food stations across the tundra...