Word: krasnodar
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...Germans lost Maikop, the only oil center they had captured. They also lost a controlling point (Tikhoretsk) on the rail line connecting Rostov with the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, the Germans' only alternate way of retreat from the Caucasus, and that alternative was itself being threatened near Krasnodar. The Stalingrad area had been almost cleared (see below), releasing troops and freeing rail lines for the Rostov battles...
Well to the north, fighting was renewed in the Voronezh sector, but with force insufficient to divert German pressure from Stalingrad. To the south, Krasnodar fell and the Germans swept deeper into the Caucasus...
Russian troops retreating through the Caucasus have put the torch to the wheat fields and granarles of the Kuban valley, one of the richest farm areas in the country, Moscow announced Sunday, and the Germans claimed to have captured both Maikop and Krasnodar, pipe line and refinery centers of the Maikop oil fields...