Yes, well done!

General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov was commander of the Soviet 20th Army during the Battle of Moscow. He was remembered initially as a Soviet hero after his forces pushed back the German 2nd Panzer Division and 106th Infantry Division from Solnechnogorsk. However, he went over to the Germans in Spring 1942 and his name was expunged from Soviet history as a result.

Your turn Boris116.

Originally Posted by Doppleganger

Yes, well done!

General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov was commander of the Soviet 20th Army during the Battle of Moscow. He was remembered initially as a Soviet hero after his forces pushed back the German 2nd Panzer Division and 106th Infantry Division from Solnechnogorsk. However, he went over to the Germans in Spring 1942 and his name was expunged from Soviet history as a result.

Your turn Boris116.

Thanks!

It is interesting, how in the Soviet literature it has been described :"The Army where the shief of staff has been General Sandalov..."
That's how I got a clue...
BTW, do you have a link to the info about the German patrols reaching to the Caspian Sea? I have never read about this in the USSR...

I need some time to come up with a new question...

Originally Posted by boris116

Thanks!

It is interesting, how in the Soviet literature it has been described :"The Army where the shief of staff has been General Sandalov..."
That's how I got a clue...
BTW, do you have a link to the info about the German patrols reaching to the Caspian Sea? I have never read about this in the USSR...

I need some time to come up with a new question...

Yes, nice choice of words eh? I don't know whether his name has been put back into Russian textbooks since the fall of Communism though.

I don't have an online link with any detail regarding German patrols near the Caspian Sea but the following map does show the extent of German penetration into the Near East, including those patrols.

http://users.pandora.be/stalingrad/m...grad_map_5.htm

Thanks, Doppleganger!


The next question:

I was born in the city that has been renamed during WWII.
The new name has been of a foreign leader.
Also, this city has become the capital of a new province.

1. What city I was born in?
2. What was the name of that leader?
3. What was the name of that province?

Hi boris116, a quick question.

When you say new province do you mean a new state or just a new province within an existing state?

Originally Posted by Doppleganger

Hi boris116, a quick question.

When you say new province do you mean a new state or just a new province within an existing state?

"A province" means a part of the state, not a separate state, I believe.

How about St Petersburg???

How about a clue Boris? I've already discounted Kaliningrad and Karl-Marx-Stadt because they don't fit.

Originally Posted by Dean

How about St Petersburg???

St. Petersburg has been renamed to Petrograd during WWI and has become Leningrad in the 20-s

Originally Posted by Doppleganger

How about a clue Boris? I've already discounted Kaliningrad and Karl-Marx-Stadt because they don't fit.

A clue: the new name has not stuck, so my home city has the same name now as it has been before the war