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
These men and these weapons thrice beat Manstein: at Stalingrad, Kursk, Zhitomir.
From Time Magazine Archive
The newly captured city of Zhitomir lay midway between Stalingrad, where the Germans stood a year ago, and Berlin; Zhitomir was only 125 miles from Bessarabia, 60 miles from prewar Poland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week it abandoned Zhitomir, in the first major reverse in the Red Army's great, 18-week offensive.
From Time Magazine Archive
The opening of the elementary schools and of the two rabbinical institutes in Vilna and Zhitomir did not begin until 1847, and for the first few years they dragged on a miserable existence.
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 I. Friedlaender
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