Maikop
Americannoun
noun
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Already the Germans had taken the Maikop fields and were thrusting into the Grozny region, only 100 miles from the Caspian.
From Time Magazine Archive
South of Malinovsky's Armies, in the north Caucasus, is another force, under General I. V. Tulienev, which last week captured the Maikop oil fields.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beyond Kerch, which the Germans hold, lie three of the great Russian oilfields: Maikop and Grozny in the North Caucasus and Baku in the Transcaucasian Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Caucasian Campaign was for oil, and last week the Germans lost Maikop, the only oil center they had captured.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the north a long cliff road leads to Novorossisk a hundred miles, and southward the same road goes on to Tuapse, some fifty miles from Maikop and the English oil-fields.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen
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