Word: voroshilovgrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the base at Voroshilovgrad, Russia's Pittsburgh, against the eastern bottom of the German pocket. Here, this week, the Germans abandoned Taganrog, which survived the great Red offensive of last winter. In this pocket, too, Soviet flyers saw the Nazis blow up dumps and defense-a telltale of retreat...
...victories are imminent after the fall of Rostov and Voroshilovgrad. The Red Army is already far west of the line between these two cities. In its irresistible sustained drive it has encircled large parts of Hitler's Army.-Moscow Radio...
...what had been for over a year a rigid, unbreakable line. On both Colonel General Golikov's front and that to the south under Nikolai Vatutin, who was last week promoted from Colonel General to Army General, the Reds exploited their advantage. Belgorod fell. So did Lozovaya, Voroshilovsk, Voroshilovgrad, Likhaya. The attackers rolled around Kharkov, which like Kursk had been one of the main fortresses on Germany's great wall of last winter. Russians crept early this week to within seven miles of Kharkov, and the city's fall seemed imminent. It was all surprisingly easy...
...least, if they intended to fight for southern Russia, they might have been expected to stick doggedly to the Donets River line running southeast from Kharkov through Voroshilovgrad. But last week Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin's armies crossed the Donets and captured Izyum on the railway between Kharkov and Rostov. The fall of Izyum meant: 1) that the Red Army had a springboard for a jump toward Dniepropetrovsk 125 miles southwest; 2) that Kharkov was threatened by a pincer arm from the south; 3) that Voroshilovgrad (whose capture was apparently imminent) had in effect been bypassed some 90 miles...
...broken the German siege line at Leningrad (see p. 33), had then to defeat the formidable forces still intact near the city. Below Moscow the preliminary disintegration of Germany's southern positions and communications proceeded: the Russians retook the important railway center of Kamensk, Voronezh and pressed on Voroshilovgrad, advanced from north and south toward the German's pinion position at Rostov. The fall of Salsk and Armavir gave the Red Army a tighter hold upon the railways of the Caucasus, increased the prospect that the retiring Axis forces there can only retreat across the Black Sea into...