Word: simferopol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Soviet dig is in the Crimea, north of Simferopol. In 1827, a peasant turned up a carved stone. Since then a few diggers have puttered around the site, but not until 1945 did a real dig get going. Soviet archeologists call the place "Neapolis [New City] of the Scythians...
...Simferopol, the Crimean capital (prewar pop. 80,000), fell almost without a fight. So did the key ports of Yevpatoriya, Feodosiya, Yalta on the sun-drenched, wooded Black Sea coast. In seven days the Russians reported killing 29,000 Germans and Rumanians, capturing 41,000 more...
Rebound in the South. On the Crimean peninsula, both sides agreed that the Germans had strongly counterattacked at points southeast of Simferopol. New York Timesman Daniel T. Brigham, covering the Russian war from censor-free Switzerland, declared: "The mere fact that the Germans in that sector are in a position to counterattack at all is taken to indicate that their situation in Simferopol cannot be considered as desperate as it was first thought to be. . . ." Capping the week was a German High Command claim of recapture of Feodosiya, on the Black Sea coast, one of the first Crimean points reclaimed...
Southward they drove on Simferopol, the Crimea's capital, only 40 miles from the great port and naval base of Sevastopol. This week the German High Command announced the capture of the capital, and said that the Russians were retreating to both Kerch and Sevastopol, which they would presumably try to evacuate...