Yelets

These stories appear apocryphal; the principal sources, including Kalashnikov himself, describe his treatment in Yelets.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

In Yelets, he said, his interest in arms design took serious shape.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

North and South of Yelets, however, the wings of the 2nd Army were coming under increasing pressure, and there was an obvious risk of the Germans burrowing themselves into a closing bag.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

The Führer clearly had no conception of the real situation, because ‘only today’ Bock had received orders to hold the railway line which ran through quasi-encircled Yelets.1

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

Further south, two other sets of Soviet pincers would attempt to pinch out the large Venev-centred pocket held by the 2nd Panzer Army east and north-east of Tula and the flatter bulge held by the German 2nd Army around Yelets.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

Army Group Centre enjoyed one success, when the 134th Infantry Division finally broke into the railway junction town of Yelets, over 200 miles south of Moscow.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

Paulus 'Panzer divisions reached the Don on either side of Voronezh on 5th July, and at that time the Stavka still had no means of knowing whether they would force a crossing and swing northward to take Yelets and Tula, in the rear.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

From the depleted southern fronts Timoshenko was being ordered to send tanks and artillery to Moscow and was compelled, also, to retain the majority of his divisions in the Belgorod-Yelets area, where they could give indirect support to Zhukov's risht flank.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

The pursuit of a flying enemy carried Timur into the tributary provinces of Russia; a duke of the reigning family was made prisoner amid the ruins of his capital; and Yelets, by the pride and ignorance of the orientals, might easily be confounded with the genuine metropolis of the nation.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

64 In Yelets, Kalashnikov said, he was racked with nightmares of the execution of the wounded soldiers in the truck, and of being underequipped against German troops.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010