Word: volkhov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pudgy artilleryman General Kiril Meretzkov captured 1,100-year-old Novgorod, which to the Russians is Russia's cradle. To retake it, Red units pierced an intricate system of defenses anchored on lakes and swamps; then crossed the Volkhov River over shattered ice and the flotsam & jetsam of a bridge the Germans blew up. Moscow's claim: 15,000 Germans killed, 3,000 captured. Last week the armies of Meretzkov and Govorov threatened to make mincemeat of Marshal von Küchler's battered forces...
LONDON--Russian guns are hammering the German lines all the way from the Kuban bridgehead to the Volkhov River south of Leningrad, Moscow dispatches reported tonight, in apparent preparation for the imminent opening of the spring campaign...
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...
...Army units attacked on the Volkhov sector southeast of Leningrad, captured a village. Berlin long ago reported Russian concentrations in this area...
...Army wiped out 1500 additional German officers and men in boating off all enemy attempts to recapture a strategically important village on the Volkhov front. Soviet forces continued their advance southeast of Nalchik...