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Dnepr

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[dnyepr] / dnjɛpr /

noun

  1. the Russian name of Dnieper.


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In a series of three alerts on Monday, Russia's RIA state news agency said the command of Russia's Dnepr group of forces had decided to relocate troops to "more favourable positions" east of the Dnipro.

From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2023

Rabbi Schneerson’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, led a Lubavitch community in what is today Dnepr, Ukraine, when the country was part of the Soviet Union.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Those certainly would have included 28 MAXs ordered by Russian flag carrier Aeroflot and six 777Fs ordered by cargo carrier Volga Dnepr.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

The team plans to use a Dnepr rocket, originally designed as Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missile, which it can book just a few months in advance of its launch.

From Nature ● Feb. 19, 2014

Here a number of Russian transports and service steamers were lying, among them being the Samojed and Olaf, Krasnaya Gorka and Vladimir, with two smaller ones—the Dnepr and the Artelscik.

From The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

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