Maikop
Americannoun
noun
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Maikop is closest to Kerch, 185 miles away.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Caucasian Campaign was for oil, and last week the Germans lost Maikop, the only oil center they had captured.
From Time Magazine Archive
An oft-told tale is Hitler's compelling need of oil, the abundance of which beckons him to Maikop and Baku.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the north a long cliff road leads to Novorossisk a hundred miles, and southward the same road goes on to Tuapse, some fifty miles from Maikop and the English oil-fields.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen
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