Word: ladoga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, Nazi infantry and panzer divisions smashed to the outskirts of Leningrad. The unprepared, disorganized Russians sustained unimaginable losses; 28 of their front-line divisions were obliterated. By the time the Germans were finally stopped, the city was surrounded. Its only open access lay to the northeast, across Lake Ladoga, toward Finland...
...also due to expedients like "the Road of Life" across Lake Ladoga. Frozen solid in winter, it supported occasional food trucks and even the great 60-ton KV tanks that eventually began to roll in to the city's defense. At the end of 1943, the Russian buildup-some 1,200,000 men-was big enough for a successful counteroffensive. On Jan. 27, 1944, the siege was lifted...
Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...
...Error discovered at Ladoga...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Siege of Leningrad," an Iliad of a struggle in which the Russian city held out for 2½ years (August 1941 to January 1944) against German encirclement total except for one tenuous ice road across frozen Lake Ladoga...