Pskov

Pskov is an ancient city, located in the north-west of Russia about 20 km east from the Estonian border, on the river Velikaya.

German General Kurt Chill led the 122 Infantry Division into Pskov early in World War II. He and his troops were trapped there when the Race's Conquest Fleet invaded Earth in 1942, and was forced into an uneasy alliance with his Soviet enemies. Although the Germans and the Russians were able to co-exist while fighting the Race and under the mediation of a group of British fighters led by George Bagnall, once the fighting was over and the Brits had left, the Germans and the Russians in Pskov began their private war again.

Chill delighted in using the German name for the city, "Pleskau", to needle his Russian counter-parts.