Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Kostelanetz made his professional debut as a concert pianist at the age of eight, and won his first major conducting assignment as Conductor of the Petrograd Grand Opera Orchestra when 19. He came to this country in 1927, and in 1930 was made conductor of one of the symphony orchestras of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
...Narva, some 680 miles to the north, the Russians hoped to score their next major success. After weeks of hammering, they had crossed the Narova River, breached the defenses put up by the Germans in their flight from Leningrad. Russian naval officers spoke of being in Estonia's Tallinn within a month...
...Captured a dozen major cities, lifted the siege of Leningrad (last week freight began to shuttle between Moscow and Leningrad over a direct railway...
...bluish dusk the sound of gunfire rolled over Moscow and Leningrad, the Dnieper's ruined cities, Rostov on the distant Don. The salvos were Russia's salute to her army on its 26th anniversary. In the Kremlin, Marshal Joseph Stalin marked the date with a 2,000-word order, fat with the names of battles won, seasoned with pride and confidence, barbed with reference to Russia's "singlehanded" combat, Said Stalin...
...find the Red Army defending the Soviet Union as far west as Helsinki," Moscow added ominously. As the Red Army drove into Estonia, 60 miles away across the Gulf of Finland, Moscow's audible, pointed recollections of Finland's part in the bombardment and siege of Leningrad, in the epic sufferings of Leningrad's citizens, sounded sharply prophetic...