Word: taganrog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year Grandfather Golovaty gave 100,000 rubles for a fighter plane, which his Saratov neighbor, Guards Major Yeremin, had flown at Stalingrad, Rostov, Taganrog, Melitopol and in the Crimea. Now, wrote the beekeeper, the plane was "quite worn down." Meanwhile, Grandfather Golovaty's bees had produced much honey, earned a good bounty, helped stock up Moscow's long-depleted food stores (see cut). They could afford to give another 100,000 rubles for a new plane. And might Grandfather Golovaty, personally, present the gift to Major Yeremin...
...50th birthday (he is now 53), Russia heaped honor upon him. Of its eight pages, Pravda devoted a laudatory seven to his work. The Government decorated him with the Order of Lenin. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov; the town of Nolinsk. Molotovsk; the Red Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor: Hero of Socialist Labor...
...they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin once possessively hailed as "Russia's Essen") awaited the Red blow. For many, the blow might come within days...
...Colonel General Fedor Tolbnkhin, captor of Taganrog. A huge man with a heavy, calm, intelligent face, he is the septet's least-known member. One of five army chiefs who helped to trap Friedrich von Paulus, Tolbukhin this year jumped two grades within four months. Equally adept in the use of cavalry and tanks, he used both last month to punch holes in the German defenses in the south. Last week he stage-managed a "little Stalin-grad" at Taganrog...
Tolbukhin's victory was the reward of daring. After a gap was torn in the Nazi lines north of Taganrog, his tanks and Cossacks rushed in, then wheeled south towards the sea. Other units, meanwhile, stormed Taganrog's front gates. When the din of battle died down, 35,000 Nazi corpses littered the steppe, 5,100 dejected survivors straggled into prisoner pens...