Word: voroshilovgrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaviest initial blow had fallen on Timoshenko's central and southern wings in the Volchansk-Voroshilovgrad region. Badly smashed up, the Russians had retreated, opening the way for Bock's first big advance of the year...
...communications from Moscow and Stalingrad. They did not yet have control of the Voronezh area, which the Russians defended at all costs for its rail communications and its value as an anchor for the Red army's sagging southern line. The Nazis had the important manufacturing city of Voroshilovgrad, but they did not yet have Rostov, important for its factories, for access to the Caucasus, and as the Red army's southwestern anchor. Above all, the Germans had not yet crossed the Don at its eastern bend, where it would be most difficult and most urgent for them...
...river transport, and fishing industries were warned to untangle production difficulties or get out. For Soviet bigwigs had discovered that "technical discipline" was not keeping pace with rising production quotas. Pig iron intended for spring steel turned unaccountably into stiff-rail steel. Of 80,000 files turned out at Voroshilovgrad one month, 33,000 were worthless because of faulty tempering. The whole Gorky Automobile Plant was stopped "for some time" while its chief technician tinkered with new production methods...