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City of Military Glory is an honorary title bestowed upon the citizenry of Russian cities, where defenders had displayed courage, steadfastness, and mass heroism in the fight for their Fatherland’s freedom and independence during the Second World War.

Grozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. In Russian, "Grozny" means "fearsome", the same word as in Ivan Grozny or Ivan the Terrible. During the battle for the Caucasus, saw fierce fighting take place around Grozny. The city’s people turned it into an unassailable fortress and tens of thousands of people from all around the Chechen-Ingush ASSR built defensive lines. The Wehrmacht troops made several attempts to break through the frontline in September 1942, but were stopped, and in October were already on the defensive. When it became clear that their bid to take Grozny had failed, German aviation launched mass air raids on the city’s factories and oil reservoirs, but the oil workers and energy specialists rebuilt everything in very quick time and Grozny was soon once again supplying the petroleum products so needed at the frontlines and on the home front too.