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  • The dutiful Hoth (whose 3rd Panzer Army had not, be it noted, been renamed Armeegruppe Hoth) was already swinging around to face the Valdai Hills and take up a new role as Leeb's "right hook" in a renewed assault on Leningrad.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • The tenth century nucleus of the Russian Empire was found about the low nodal watershed formed by the Valdai Hills, whence radiated the rivers later embodied in the Muscovite domain.

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • Measured through its entire windings it has a length of twenty-four hundred miles from its rise in the Valdai Hills, five hundred and fifty feet above sea-level, to its outlet into the Caspian

    Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

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