Word: kotelnikov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hero of Kotelnikov and commander in the field under Yeremenko is thickset, deep-dimpled Lieut. General Rodion Ya-kovlievich Malinovsky, 44. Odessa-born, he joined the army when he was a boy, fought in France (Amiens, St. Mihiel) with a Russian infantry brigade alongside Americans and Britons. "I shall never forget the British," he says. "Shaving in the darkest days, pipes perpetually between their teeth, they never moved faster than a walk whether in advance or retreat." In this war he won the Order of Lenin for helping to defeat Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist during...
...Kalmuck steppes, below Stalingrad, the correspondents saw hundreds of ruined German tanks, munitions dumps captured intact, many abandoned guns. At Kotelnikov, where the Germans had failed in their chief attempt to break through and save their Stalingrad army, Correspondent Kerr traced the history of Axis disaster. In a park which the Germans had made a cemetery when Kotelnikov was securely theirs, the German graves lay between neat rows of bricks, and wooden crosses, bore the name, birth date and rank of each soldier. Then there were shallow graves, marked rudely and in haste. On the battlefields outside the town...
...chill and windy Kalmuck steppes south of Stalingrad, where the Russians had narrowly repulsed a German counteroffensive, the Red Army still advanced last week. It drove down the Stalingrad-Caucasus railway, took the Germans' strong defense-point at Kotelnikov, and rolled on southward. The Russians said that these operations, like those on the Middle Don and northwest of Stalingrad, were part of the great plan to defeat the Germans on the Volga. The accompanying threat to other German armies in the Caucasus was real enough, but by Moscow's own account it was a future threat...
...Russian resistance west of the river. Now they had bridgeheads across the Don where it crooks within 47 miles of Stalingrad. Two new footholds were won, the sprouting prongs of a pincer designed to squeeze off the lower Volga's key industrial city. One prong thrust northeast from Kotelnikov in great force, the other southeast from Kletskaya, in relentless progress that the Red Army was unable to halt...