Word: khabarovo
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Russia's northern force has suddenly emerged as the most significant of Russia's four fleets. Based on Polyarny, near Murmansk, and on Khabarovo, about 700 miles to the east, its four cruisers, 40-odd destroyers and 50 to 100 submarines (some of them missile-armed) are positioned to dominate the far northern approaches to Europe. In time of war the fleet would provide the stronger arm of the naval pincer (the Soviet Baltic fleet is the other) by which the Russians would try to neutralize Scandinavia and challenge Western transatlantic sea lines. It would also serve...
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