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unusual facts about Staraya Russa



Order of Battle for the Leningrad Strategic Defensive Operation

After regrouping the army advanced north and south of Lake Ilmen on the Novgorod-Chudovo-Leningrad and Staraya Russa-Kholm-Demyansk axis.

Shimsky District

It is also connected by roads with Luga, Staraya Russa, and Volot.

Soletsky District

Soltsy is connected by roads to Veliky Novgorod via Shimsk, to Staraya Russa via Volot, and to Dno.

Soltsy

The town is located along the Novgorod–Pskov highway and is also connected by road to Staraya Russa via Volot.

Voldemārs Reinholds

Battalion was involved in anti-partisan duties in the Leningrad Front (near the Lake Ilmen and Staraya Russa).


see also

Zelman Passov

Zelman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов (1905, Staraya Russa, Russia - 15 February 1940) headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service, then part of the NKVD from June to November 1938, when he was arrested.