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Vinnitsa

American  
[vin-it-suh, vyee-nyi-tsuh] / ˈvɪn ɪt sə, ˈvji njɪ tsə /

noun

  1. the Russian name of Vinnytsia.


Vinnitsa British  
/ ˈvinnitsə /

noun

  1. a city in central Ukraine: passed from Polish to Russian rule in 1793. Pop: 353 000 (2005 est)

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Blasts were also heard in central Ukraine in the regions of Vinnitsa, Khmelnitsky and Zhytomyr.

From BBC May 17, 2023

The Vinnitsa photo came to represent something else, too – a reminder of how warily you must tread when you try to enlist the past, however good your intentions, and indeed however modest your enterprise.

From The Guardian Oct. 25, 2014

Near Vinnitsa a force under General Nikolai Vatutin kept its eye on the Odessa-Warsaw line; the Germans had to hold it to escape disaster in the Dnieper bend.

From Time Magazine Archive

Isaac Shkolnik of Vinnitsa in the Ukraine was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp for "systematically" collecting "espionage material about the Soviet Union with a view to selling it to Israeli intelligence."

From Time Magazine Archive

When I came to Vinnitsa, I found there the troops of Pan Aksak, now present in this camp; but I had not put off my minstrel skin yet, for I feared the peasantry.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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