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Dvinsk

American  
[dvyeensk] / dvyinsk /

noun

  1. the Russian name of Daugavpils.


Dvinsk British  
/ dvinsk /

noun

  1. transliteration of the former Russian name for Daugavpils

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Shipping in the Dvinsk Bay on the White Sea has also been shut down for a month after the accident, according to the Wall Street Journal.

From Fox News

The youngest of four children, he was born Marcus Rotkovitch in Dvinsk, Latvia, in 1903.

From Washington Post

Rothko was born in 1903 in Daugavpils - then known as Dvinsk - was part of the Russian Empire.

From BBC

The vital blow at this stage was being delivered in the north, where von Below, bent on reaching Riga for his winter quarters, was marching on the Dvina lines with the immediate object of crossing that river and turning the whole Russian front as far as Dvinsk.

From Project Gutenberg

They were saved by the series of flank-guard battles securing their one avenue of retreat, and Ruzsky's counter-offensive from Dvinsk—a stroke so effective that the long German cavalry arm was in itself now in danger of being cut off.

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