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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

His father Jacob spent most of his time making copper kitchenware in the nearby town of Vinnitsa, and young Selman was brought up almost entirely by his mother Fradia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The army marched through Vinnitsa and Litin to Hmelnik; on the way Vershul met a Tartar party in Saverovka, which he and Volodyovski destroyed, and freed a few hundred captives,--almost all young women.

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

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