Word: simferopol
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Southward they drove on Simferopol, the Crimea's capital, only 40 miles from the great port and naval base of Sevastopol. This week the German High Command announced the capture of the capital, and said that the Russians were retreating to both Kerch and Sevastopol, which they would presumably try to evacuate...
...free democratic election, they were nonetheless quite a big enough dose for Russian minds and Russian methods to cope with. Getting ballots and pencils to the places where they were needed was a big job and there were occasional slips of the new electoral machinery as when, in Simferopol, one of the polling places designated was a house torn down some months ago; in Rostov-on-Don where a polling booth was placed inside a cinema so that it was necessary to buy a ticket to the show in order to vote...