Word: nalchik
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...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...
MOSCOW--Russian troops fell back to new battle posts under concentrated German assaults in the Nalchik area of the Caucasua yesterday but counter-attacked strongly in some parts of Stalingrad and forged ahead through several enemy positions, the Red Army announced today...
...sector of the Nalchik plain massed German forces drove an armored spearhead into the Red Army positions, the Sunday midnight communique of the high command said, and "after bitter fighting the Soviet troops retreated to new positions, having caused heavy losses to the enemy...
...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...