Word: volkhov
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Zigzag Line. In all their efforts the Russians scored heavily in behalf of a major need: several important rail centers were again in or nearly in Russian hands. The threat against the highly strategic rail link between Murmansk on the Arctic coast and Leningrad was allayed. Control of the Volkhov River would mean possession of four-fifths of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Already recaptured was the southbound Moscow-Tula-Orel railroad. If the Germans could be driven out of the Donets Basin and Crimea, Russia could again link up communications important to her war effort-the zigzag lines of rails...
About Leningrad, Red banners moved forward too. Russian troops regained points along the Moscow-Leningrad highway, went on to cross the Volkhov River and seize Volkhov itself. They said an offensive for the relief of Leningrad was under...
...ages a proud port of trade was the free city of Novgorod, situated on Lake Ilmen in what is now Northern Russia, some 100 miles from Leningrad. Merchants there knew that they owed their prosperity to the singer Sadko, often told their children how he had made the River Volkhov to flow, thus opening their city to the sea. The legendary Sadko appealed to famed Russian Composer Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov, who wrote an opera about him in which is included "The Song of India." In its proper setting, in the opera Sadko, it was heard for the first time...