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Potyomkin

British  
/ paˈtjɔmkin /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Potemkin

"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 dude on the left is Oleksiy Potyomkin.

From Washington Post Mar. 11, 2022

The dude on the right is also Oleksiy Potyomkin.

From Washington Post Mar. 11, 2022

Mr. Bondur said he last saw Mr. Potyomkin in early March at the Kyiv train station, where both were putting their families on a train going west.

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2022

On June 14th, through the revolt of the Potyomkin Tavritchesky it had shown that it was able to become a material force.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

Catherine was now dead, Potyomkin was dead, Suvorof was living an exile in a village, and Panin was idle on his estates.

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan

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