Mariupol

[ mar-ee-oo-puhl; Russian muh-ryi-oo-puhl ]

noun

1. a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.

Mariupol

/ məriˈupəlj /

noun

1. a port in SE Ukraine, on an estuary leading to the Sea of Azov. Pop: 485 000 (2005 est) Former name (1948–91)Zhdanov

Example Sentences

Tatyana and Yelena, two grandmothers from Mariupol, are among the most gut-wrenching examples.

From The Daily Beast

Only after the tragedies of Mariupol, Bucha, Gostomel, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and dozens of other places did the international community start to understand what we are dealing with.

From Time

Officials stressed that they were moving quickly, rushing to get more tools to help Ukrainians defend their country where civilians in places like Mariupol are facing increasingly dire conditions that deteriorate by hour.

From TIme

A conservative estimate puts the number across Ukraine in the mid-1000s so far—with the number rising by the day—and that figure doesn’t include the 5000 who the mayor of Mariupol says perished in his still-besieged city.

From Time

The scenes in Kyiv and Mariupol should serve as an abrupt wakeup call to those public figures who have talked loosely about inviting open warfare in our world.

From Time

One man in Donetsk said he visits his parents in Mariupol almost every weekend.

From The Daily Beast

Larger than Mariupol, it boasts an opera house and theater but most stores downtown are closed and few people walk the streets.

From The Daily Beast

Back at the Mariupol checkpoint, a Ukrainian National Guardsmen gave a man with an "old" passport a hard time.

From The Daily Beast

A guardsman told him to get on the bus, and the frontline express drove on again to Mariupol.

From The Daily Beast

Katya Milevski, 18, lives in Donetsk and was taking the trip to Mariupol to give her mother a small dog she carried.

From The Daily Beast

Cereals are exported in large quantities via the Dnieper, the Sevastopol railway, and the port of Mariupol.

From Project Gutenberg