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The siege of Sevastopol, also known as the defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol; Romanian: Bătălia de la Sevastopol), was a military engagement that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
The Crimean offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed at the German-held Crimea.
the Sevastopol Defence Region, the Separate Coastal Army (Ivan Yefimovich Petrov), the Black Sea Fleet, the Azov Flotilla. The task of the North Caucasus Front was to keep the Sevastopol defensive area and to defend the border of the Don River and the coasts of the Black and Azov Seas. The isolated city of Sebastopol fell on July 4, 1942.
Battle for Sevastopol (Russian: Битва за Севастополь, lit. 'Battle for Sevastopol'; Ukrainian: Незламна, lit. 'Indestructible') is a 2015 biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet woman who joined the Red Army to fight the German invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. [1]
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G. Rossolinski-Liebe puts the number of Ukrainians, both OUN-UPA members and civilians, killed by Poles during and after World War II to be 10,000–20,000. [179] According to Kataryna Wolczuk, for all of the areas affected by conflict, the Ukrainian casualties range from 10,000 to 30,000 between 1943 and 1947. [188]
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Sevastopol (/ ˌ s ɛ v ə ˈ s t oʊ p əl, s ə ˈ v æ s t ə p oʊ l /), [a] sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea.Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history.