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
At week's end the Nazis said they had broken through the Stalin Line near Lake Peipus, not 175 miles from Leningrad; at Vitebsk, 300 miles from Moscow; near Zhitomir, only 75 miles from Kiev.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind Zhitomir he had been hoarding vast masses of tanks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Germans counterattacked, retook the rail center of Zhitomir, at the least gained time to strengthen a rear defense line.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zhitomir, rabbinical seminary at, 175, 186, 197, 202, 248; printing-press in, 230; trade school in, 235; Evening and Sabbath schools in, 239.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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