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Dnepropetrovsk

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/ dnɪprəpɪˈtrɔfsk /

noun

  1. Former name (1787–1796, 1802–1926): Yekaterinoslav.  a city in E central Ukraine on the Dnieper River: a major centre of the metallurgical industry. Pop: 1 036 000 (2005 est)

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Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet ruler from 1964 to 1982, was born in what is now Dnepropetrovsk.

From New York Times Oct. 18, 2014

Ekotechnik Praha s.r.o. of the Czech Republic plans two 42- megawatt solar parks near Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk this year.

From BusinessWeek Feb. 22, 2012

Last month, before they deployed, the women were sharing quarters at a campground near the central-eastern city of Dnepropetrovsk preparing for combat.

From Washington Post

Plyushch, 37, who still considers himself a "neo-Marxist," was remanded to the Dnepropetrovsk special mental hospital in July 1973 after prison doctors had diagnosed him as a schizophrenic.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two hundred and sixty miles from there to the Dnepropetrovsk was a little more difficult, but not terribly so.

From The Foreign Hand Tie by Garrett, Randall

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