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Little Russia

American  
[lit-l ruhsh-uh] / ˈlɪt l ˈrʌʃ ə /

noun

  1. former name for the region consisting mainly of Ukraine but sometimes considered as including adjacent areas.


Little Russia British  

noun

  1. a region of the former Soviet Union, consisting chiefly of Ukraine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The community grew so large that in 1981 New York magazine ran a five-page spread titled “A Little Russia Grows in Brooklyn.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2022

Mr. Davidzon, 53, serves as a kingmaker in Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach, the neighborhoods known collectively as Little Russia.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2012

They went to a store called Little Russia and looked at the lacquered dolls there.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 26, 2010

Born in Little Russia in 1879, the son of a Jewish farmer, Trotsky early became class-conscious.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1840 he published his "Kobzár"29 which made an impression in Little Russia.

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood

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