Word: semion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kharkov Front, the admitted Nazi superiority was even more ominous. There the Russians had unlimited airfield space. Only the demands of other fronts and Russia's military capacity limit the forces available to Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Except at Sevastopol, which made no demands because it could not be reinforced, the other fronts were comparatively quiet...
...Russian dead, 2,000 prisoners. "Frontline corrections," the Nazi communiqués called these engagements, suggesting preparations for something bigger. The Russians, confirming action in this area but suggesting nothing, said they killed 5,730 Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad's rear, Russian dive-bombers spotted Nazi troop convoys on the move. The Russians said that they sank nine German transports...
Russia had tried, gallantly. Under its best general, dashing, cavalry-trained Semion Timoshenko, it had turned a tremendous striking force against Kharkov, throwing its encircling arms around both sides of the city while it battered frontally against the German fortifications. The Germans estimated the Russian strength at 20 infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions, 15 tank brigades. And the Germans were taken by surprise...
...their whole strength into the Crimea, although it is only 22 miles across the Kerch Straits from the oil-soaked Caucasus. To risk everything in a game of leapfrog from Crimea to the Caucasus would mean leaving their left flank open to the wiliest of the Russian generals, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
They also fought effectively. Hints of the headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...