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Voroshilovgrad

British  
/ vərəʃilafˈɡrat /

noun

  1. the former name (1935–91) of Lugansk

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At the 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.

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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.

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From Voroshilovgrad to Stalino was a 40-minute flight over fertile land still jaggedly cut by trenches and shell holes.

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In Voroshilovgrad three years after its capture from the Germans, men, women and war prisoners are still moving rubble.

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The same was true of the coal mine shown us at Kadievka, the furniture factory in Voroshilovgrad, and the port of Odessa.

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