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
Korosten and Zhitomir, lately taken and lost, had been retaken.
From Time Magazine Archive
With more than 1,600 tanks in pursuit, the Russians abandoned Zhitomir, fled across the flat, muddy terrain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
With all their shortcomings, and though producing but few rabbis acceptable to Russo-Jewish congregations, the seminaries in Warsaw, Zhitomir, and Vilna were powers for enlightenment.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
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