Word: staraya
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Russians still talked hopefully of knocking off the pocket of Staraya Russa, of taking Kharkov, richest military prize of all. They still might. But progress was agonizingly slow. And losses on both sides were heavy. In any well-regulated old-fashioned war the front would long since have dropped into hibernation, while both sides girded themselves for the spring...
...north, the Germans still pocketed Leningrad. They beat off Russian thrusts around Staraya Russa and held that city with as few as 60,000 men, by Russian admission...
MOSCOW--Soviet troops have smashed one of the strongest German points in the Donets Basin, tearing open a huge gap in the battle line, and another on the north front just south of Staraya Russa, where the 16th German Army of more than 100,000 men lines in a death trap, front dispatches said, today...
...Staraya Russa, 300 miles northwest of Moscow, where Colonel General Ernst Busch is penned up with a German Army, the Russians saw their best hope of destroying the enemy. General Busch had been there since last September, and he had plenty of reason to regret the dashing autumn drive of his army. For there was no doubt that Russia was crimping him tighter & tighter. He needed the spring as badly as any man on the front. And, above Moscow, the thaw was still six weeks away...
This tribute was high on the list of 37 slogans distributed by Tass. Soviet news agency, to commemorate the Red Army's 24th anniversary (TIME, March 2). Last week came proof that the tribute was more than earned. In a maneuver encircling the Sixteenth German Army at Staraya Russa, 140 miles south of still-besieged Leningrad, Soviet troops were guided by a guerrilla named Ivan Grozny, who is known as "Ivan the Terrible." Guerrilla Grozny and his guerrillas cut communications, uprooted German mine fields, finally marched 25 miles through bitter cold and deep snow to help encircle the Germans...