Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Totleben, the Russian chief engineer, had began work on these sites early in the war.
Totleben saw that it would be necessary to draw engineering works around Osman Pasha and cut him off from communication with the other Turkish commanders.
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The village of Totleben in Pordim municipality, Pleven Province, is named after Eduard Totleben, in honour of his decisive role in the Siege of Plevna of 1877.
Eduard Shevardnadze | Eduard Stiefel | Eduard Hanslick | Eduard Khil | Eduard, Duke of Anhalt | Eduard Buchner | Totleben | Julius Eduard Hitzig | Friedrich Eduard Schulz | Eduard Zeller | Eduard Tubin | Eduard Spranger | Eduard Mörike | Eduard Kuznetsov | Eduard Heis | Eduard Dietl | Eduard Brunner | Totleben, Bulgaria | Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben | Eduard van Beinum | Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe | Eduard Suess | Eduard Steuermann | Eduard Sievers | Eduard Puricelli | Eduard Prchal | Eduard Pechuël-Loesche | Eduard Nalbandyan | Eduard Knoblauch | Eduard Gufeld |