Translation Help

[Tommy]

Me again.

What does пр-ка mean?

[CtahhR]

Enemy. (противника)

[Tommy]

They used to abbreviate some really odd words.

cheers though!

[CtahhR]

Could be worse, imagine if they had used "texting" language.

[Tommy]

Is this the correct sentence?

"23.6.44 в с Пустынники принимал активное участие в захвате самоходного орудия противника"



Would be a good translation, Пустынники seems to be desert and hermit?!

Thanks!

Tom

[CtahhR]

It's a noun. There are 3 such villages in the Russian Federation currently.

So what you're looking for is Pustynniki.

[Tommy]

Thank you, Ctahhr.

One last line if you don't mind!



This one has confused me

24.6.44 со своим отделением занял соло нижняя гряда???

On 24.6.44 with his department took a solo lower ridge...

It's the "solo" that i think could be wrong. How can he take a ridge solo with his department?

[CtahhR]

It could be selo or solo. His unit could have taken a single lower ridge or a village on a lower ridge. I think a solo ridge. It could have been there was only a single ridge in the location like a "lone outcrop".

[Auke]

It's selo, the village of Nizhnyaya Grada. Otdeleniye means squad.

[aviator]

It's selo, the village of Nizhnyaya Grada. Otdeleniye means squad.

Yes, it is definitely selo. The difference between selo and the village is in the presence of a church. There is a church in selo, and there is no curch in the village. In Soviet times they used Selsoviets (rural councils) instead of churches.