Word: feodosiya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simferopol, the Crimean capital (prewar pop. 80,000), fell almost without a fight. So did the key ports of Yevpatoriya, Feodosiya, Yalta on the sun-drenched, wooded Black Sea coast. In seven days the Russians reported killing 29,000 Germans and Rumanians, capturing 41,000 more...
...mere fact that the Germans in that sector are in a position to counterattack at all is taken to indicate that their situation in Simferopol cannot be considered as desperate as it was first thought to be. . . ." Capping the week was a German High Command claim of recapture of Feodosiya, on the Black Sea coast, one of the first Crimean points reclaimed by Russia in the counteroffensive...
...week's most telling blow was struck farther south, where Russian soldiers, advancing under heavy German air attacks, occupied the fortress of Kerch and the town of Feodosiya in eastern Crimea. Once Crimea is again in Russian hands (the naval base of Sevastopol is still under German siege), Soviet planes will be based a scant 100 miles from the German-dominated Rumanian coast, the Soviet Fleet again will be an offensive weapon in the Black Sea, and Germany's threat to the oil of the Caucasus will be weakened...
Within eight hours they guessed again and came back. This time they attacked on a vaster scale. They landed parachutists at such widely separated points as Eupatoria and Feodosiya (see map), bombed the opposite extremes of Perekop and Yalta, sent landing parties ashore along the Crimea's Black Sea coast and across the shallow, stagnant enclosed sea called the Putrid...
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