Word: krasnodar
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...