Word: mozdok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW--Soviet troops, carrying the fight to the enemy in the central Caucasus, inflicted heavy losses on the Germans southeast of Naichik Monday and near Mozdok stormed a Nazi command post in the first major action there in more than two weeks, the Russinas reported today...
Slowly and at great cost, the Germans have advanced in the central and eastern Caucasus to within 150 miles of Makhach-Kala on the Caspian, where the best shore route to Baku begins. They have the Malgobek oilfield near Mozdok, but they do not have the Grozny fields, although the Russians last week admitted that in that sector they were still retiring. The Germans also advanced past Nalchik toward Ordzhonikidze...
...midnight communique revealed that fighting had shifted to a new theatre of operations in the area of Nalchik, 60 miles northwest of the oil city of Ord-zhonikidso in the Caucasus foothills, where the Germans were believed trying a flank drive after failing to advance past Mozdok toward Grozny, farther cast...