Dvina
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Latvian Daugava. Also called Western Dvina. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the western Russian Federation, flowing west through Belarus and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1,030 km) long.
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Also called Northern Dvina. a river in the northern Russian Federation in Europe, flowing northwest into the White Sea. About 470 miles (750 km) long.
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Russian name: Severnaya Dvina. a river in NW Russia, formed by the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers and flowing northwest to Dvina Bay in the White Sea. Length: 750 km (466 miles)
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Latvian name: Daugava. Russian name: Zapadnaya Dvina. a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)
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Ryan holed up in a convent on the Dvina River, where he dined on vegetable soup, boiled potatoes, roast pheasant and canned pears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2018
The men grudgingly loaded the sleds, crossed the iced-over Dvina River and boarded the train to the front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2018
The largest river entering the White Sea is the Northern Dvina.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2011
On the European side of the Urals, the volume of the Volga would be increased by funneling into it the flow of three major northern rivers, the Onega, the Northern Dvina and the Pechora.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dvina front along its entire length was once more the subject of a violent artillery attack from German batteries on May 5, 1916.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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