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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)

"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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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

To the south, another powerful force captured the key rail center of Zhmerinka, fought its way into the famed hedgehog of Vinnitsa.

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 Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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