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Zhitomir

[zhi-taw-myir]

noun

  1. the Russian name of Zhytomyr.



Zhitomir

/ ʒiˈtɔmir /

noun

  1. a city in central Ukraine; centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 282 000 (2005 est)

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Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, on June 3, 1923.

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Among other cities they held Zhitomir, Kiev, Nikolayev, and Odessa.

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Blank was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine.

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The samples cited by Greenpeace were taken in the Rivne and Zhitomir regions, which were in the direct path of the radiation cloud.

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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.

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