Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians Kiev was the "mother of cities," Russia's ancient capital, a venerated center of history and lore, a beloved and lovely spot. From Kiev, Slav buccaneers sailed on their raids to ancient Byzantium, down the Dnieper and across the turbulent Black Sea. A thousand years ago, Kiev's ruler, Prince Vladimir, was baptized in the sluggish Dnieper, made Kiev the heart of Russia's Greek Orthodox faith. When Berlin was still a muddy village, Kiev's famed Petchersky Monastery was green with...
...captured Kiev in 1941, was not its first alien invader. For eleven centuries, men of the sword-Variags and Khazars, Tatars, Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes, its banks towering above the Dnieper, survived. It sprawled on the border between the rich, black-soiled south and the forested north, and their wealth was the plasma which always revived...
...murky dawn hour when Kiev fell, the battle for the Dnieper had virtually ended, the battle for western Russia had begun...
...After a 130-mile dash in twelve days, Russian guns were shelling the city of Kherson from emplacements across the Dnieper...
...Krivoi Rog, the Wehrmacht continued its desperate, costly-and thus far successful-struggle to keep open an escape corridor for the forces still within the Dnieper bend...