Word: lozovaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recaptured 3,800 towns and villages, including the vital railroad centers of Pavlograd, Krasnograd and Lozovaya...
...superior enemy"-disregarded the fact that it is the business of generalship never to be out-concentrated. The place of attack made the most of the Russian transport difficulties. The Russians, though unable to use Germans' narrower rail lines, had advanced just beyond three important rail junctions, Krasnograd, Lozovaya and Pavlograd, and the Germans recovered them early in the counter-drive...
...crumbling of what had been for over a year a rigid, unbreakable line. On both Colonel General Golikov's front and that to the south under Nikolai Vatutin, who was last week promoted from Colonel General to Army General, the Reds exploited their advantage. Belgorod fell. So did Lozovaya, Voroshilovsk, Voroshilovgrad, Likhaya. The attackers rolled around Kharkov, which like Kursk had been one of the main fortresses on Germany's great wall of last winter. Russians crept early this week to within seven miles of Kharkov, and the city's fall seemed imminent. It was all surprisingly...
Elastic defense can be masterful, as Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...Lozovaya Timoshenko's troops were only 62 miles from Dnepropetrovsk and the site of the once great, now ruined Dnieper Dam. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic last week announced that before the dam was dynamited to render it useless to the Germans (TIME, Sept. 1), its 740,000-h.p. turbines and other power machinery had been dismantled and moved eastward to safety...