Word: sselberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early last autumn the Red Army regained enough strength to try to free Leningrad. Under General Kiryl Meretskov an army crossed the Volkhov River, drove west against the German corridor running to Schlüsselberg, kept going until the corridor was narrowed to nine miles. On Jan. 11 General Meretskov resumed the offensive. Simultaneously another drive struck east out of Leningrad under Major General Leonid A. Govorov. When the two armies met, seven days later, Leningrad was free...
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