Word: perekop
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...attackers opened up with nocturnal bombing. At midnight they sent a wave of tanks and motorized infantry down to the narrow neck of Perekop, which joins Crimea with the mainland. Simultaneously they dropped swarms of parachutists behind the Russian lines and sent naval parties to land at many points...
Within eight hours they guessed again and came back. This time they attacked on a vaster scale. They landed parachutists at such widely separated points as Eupatoria and Feodosiya (see map), bombed the opposite extremes of Perekop and Yalta, sent landing parties ashore along the Crimea's Black Sea coast and across the shallow, stagnant enclosed sea called the Putrid...
...capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...
...Whites whipped his Red unit in the Caucasus, Comrade Timoshenko escaped to Tsaritsyn, then defended by Red Army forces under Stalin and Voroshilov, with whom he became fast friends. They gave him command of a cavalry brigade and in 1920, while attacking Baron Wrangel's forces at Perekop in the Crimea, Timoshenko was severely wounded and his brigade was cut to pieces by the Whites...