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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="elibrary">80301</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Terra Linguistica</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Terra Linguistica</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2782-5450</issn>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">32</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>The construction of the Baltic soviet navy bases in Estonia and Latvia in autumn of 1939 – spring of 1940</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Создание баз Балтийского флота СССР в Эстонии и Латвии осенью 1939 – весной 1940 года</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kovalyov</surname>
            <given-names>Sergey</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Andrey A. Mikhailov</surname>
            <given-names>Андрей</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>dragun66@mail.ru</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2011-03-10">
        <day>10</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2011</year>
      </pub-date>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <issue-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">118</issue-id>
      <fpage>177</fpage>
      <lpage>182</lpage>
      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>The article reveals very important trends of Soviet military activity aiming at protection of the Baltic Sea coast of Estonia and Latvia in complicated political conditions of the Second World War outbreak. Appropriate articles by Soviet-Estonian and Soviet-Latvian mutual assistance pacts were accurately studied, as well as specific measures by National Navy Commissariat on construction of navy bases, forming of the squadron of warships, building coastal artillery batteries, airfields etc. The article is entirely based on archive material; it contains so far unknown facts about military and political situation in the Baltic Region in 1939-1940.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <kwd>the Second World War</kwd>
        <kwd>mutual assistance pacts</kwd>
        <kwd>navy base</kwd>
        <kwd>Baltik fleet</kwd>
        <kwd>coastal artillery</kwd>
        <kwd>fortified region</kwd>
        <kwd>safety of frontiers</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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