zaozernaia hill

Example Sentences

• "It was proposed that when Zaozernaia Hill was taken, all troops were to be pulled back behind the frontier immediately afterward. The directive required that Zaozernaia Hill remain in our hands no matter what. We will not give further detailed consideration to the subsequent course of military operations for Zaozernaia and Bezymiannaia hills, which lasted from August 6 to August 11 and ended with the complete routing of the Japanese invaders."
• "Today we are exactly informed that the question of the robbery of Zaozernaia Hill (Changkufeng), that is, the whole question of the events in the Lake Khasan region, was actually not decided in Tokyo at all, but in another place, somewhere in Europe, probably in Berlin."
• "Larger-than-life figures of Soviet soldiers, holding rifles or red banners[,] were depicted standing on top of a mountain, while the Japanese with frightened faces and transformed into a herd of non-human creatures were scattered at its bottom. The mountain could be interpreted literally as Zaozernaia Hill near Lake Khasan, where a military confrontation had taken place, or figuratively, indicated the triumph of the Soviet state over Japan."
• "Japanese troops succeeded in capturing the main hills called Zaozernaia (Chinese name: Changkufeng) and Bezymiannaia (Chinese name: Shachaofeng). […] Units of the 40th Division of the Red Army came out to the Eastern slopes of the Zaozernaia Hill. […] M[ikhail] Avilov’s painting Eleven Frontier Guards on the Zaozernaia Hill is dedicated to events in the Far East."
• "A Soviet Red Banner is flown over Zaozernaia Hill towards the end of the Lake Khasan fighting, where a ceasefire was implemented the following day on 11 August."