Ilmen
Britishnoun
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In the middle 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.
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Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians�taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter�were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen.
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Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea.
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The Germans, who for weeks had observed, reported and presumably countered the Russians' preparations, said that fighting was in progress from Kalinin, north of Moscow, to Lake Ilmen below Leningrad.
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There is a small stream which falls into Lake Ilmen on its western side, and which is called Chorny Ruchei, the Black Brook.
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden
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