Word: taganrog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farther south, the Russians pulled another sneak near the Sea of Azov, advancing 115 miles beyond German-held Taganrog. Here their ultimate aim was to choke oft' German communications into the vital Crimea...
...Russia, from Taganrog on the Black Sea to Tikhvin north of Moscow, great Soviet armies battered retreating Germans back over the bloody snow, capturing hundreds of villages and inflicting terrible losses on the freezing Nazis...
Russian forces had caused Paul von Kleist to pick up his maps and binoculars and beat it from Rostov-on-Don 40 miles west to Taganrog, then toward Mariupol, 60 miles farther. Except for dismissing the whole affair as a diversion, Berlin spokesmen blushed and shut...
...left flank of which was insufficiently secured. Marshal Timoshenko drove down on the flank, then hit it head-on and sent it running. Before long the Russians claimed that the Germans' 14th and 16th Tank Divisions, 60th Motorized Division and two SS "Viking" Divisions had been pursued to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov; that they were running for Mariupol, 65 miles farther west...
...communique admitted that Russian troops had evacuated Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov, 40 miles from the oil port of Rostov, which the Germans claimed two days ago to have captured but it claimed that 35,000 Germans were killed or wounded in a battle lasting several days...