Word: taganrog
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...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...
LONDON -- Approximately 35,000 Germans fell in the battle of Taganrog and 500 German planes were destroyed on the ground in one week, a Russian war communique broadcast from Moscow claimed today, coincident with the first signs that the German drive on Moscow was breaking down...
...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...
Chekhov's father kept a grocery shop in Taganrog, a sleepy little town on the Sea of Azov. Chekhov went to work in the shop when he was eight, and hated...
...disguises, once got himself up like a ragamuffin and fooled his uncle into giving him three kopeks. His teachers were fond of him, but none of them thought him exceptional. When he was 16 his father failed in business, packed his family off to Moscow. Chekhov stayed behind in Taganrog to finish school. When he joined his family three years later, he found them in worse straits than ever. Thereafter, though he had two older brothers, it was Chekhov who was the family breadwinner...