Zhitomir
Americannoun
noun
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The man who would lead the world into the space age, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907, in Zhitomir, in modern-day Ukraine.
From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2011
When the Red Army captured Zhitomir, it severed the Wehrmacht's last north-to-south railway in pre-1939 Russia, compelled the Germans to use the single-track line 100 miles to the west, in pre-1939 Poland.
From Time Magazine Archive
The names studding the German and Soviet communiqu�s this week�Zhlobin, Orsha, Mogilev, Korosten, Zhitomir, Znamenka� were all key railroad points.
From Time Magazine Archive
Korosten and Zhitomir, lately taken and lost, had been retaken.
From Time Magazine Archive
The year 1848 was the first scholastic year in the two enlightenment nurseries, the rabbinical schools of Vilna and Zhitomir.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by Friedlaender, I.
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