Don River
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The breakaway contingent rumbled through villages and along a road that cut through patches of forest and flat farmland, skirting gulleys carved out by tributaries of the Don River.
From Reuters
In 1962, Soviet government forces violently suppressed a strike against rising food prices in Novocherkassk, a city in the Don River region of southern Russia.
From New York Times
Boeck has next to nothing to say, except for a brief footnote, about Sholokhov’s parents and early life in the Don River valley, as “almost all accounts of his childhood are either saccharine or selective.”
From Washington Post
The charm offensive from Russia’s seventh-placed club had the 238 travelling fans furnished with blankets to keep warm on an evening in which a biting wind came in off the Don River.
From The Guardian
Putin has denied funneling Russian troops or arms to pro-Russia separatists waging war against Ukrainian government forces for control of the country's eastern industrial region along the Don River basin, known as the Donbas.
From Los Angeles Times
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