• in Operation Saturn, the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942–1943?

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Great Patriotic War

• the honorary title City of Military Glory has been bestowed on the citizenry of 27 Russian cities for courage and heroism shown during the Great Patriotic War?
• the USSR named twelve cities and one city-fortress Hero Cities for valor during the Great Patriotic War?