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Kharkiv
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kharkiv , Rus. Kharkov, city (1990 est. pop. 1,600,000), capital of Kharkiv region, E Ukraine, at the confluence of the Kharkiv, Lopan, and Udy rivers in the upper Donets valley. Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv is also...
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Poltava
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Poltava , city (1989 pop. 315,000), capital of Poltava region, E Ukraine, on the Kiev-Kharkiv highway and on the Vorskla River, a tributary of the Dnieper. It is an industrial center and important rail junction in the rich...
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place-name changes
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...Bahru Johor Baharu Juba river Jubba river Kalinin Tver Karen state Kayin state Kassa Košice Katanga Shaba Kharkov Kharkiv Kiangsu Jiangsu Kiev Kyiv Kirgizia Kyrgystan Kissoué Kiswe Knocke Knokke-Heist Konigsberg Kaliningrad Koritsa Korc...
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Ukraine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...also produces titanium, nickel, zinc, mercury, oil, natural gas, and bauxite. Ukraine's main industrial centers are Kharkiv , Dnipropetrovsk , Donetsk , Zaporizhzhya , Makiyivka , Mariupol , and Luhansk . Odessa is the principal Ukrainian port on...
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Simferopol
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pop. 344,000), capital of the autonomous republic of Crimea, S Ukraine, on the Salgir River and on the Sevastopol-Kharkiv rail line. It is a land and water transport hub and a commercial center in the heart of a truck-farming and fruit-growing...
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Odessa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Black Sea. The third largest Ukrainian city after Kiev and Kharkiv, Odessa is an important rail junction and highway hub and...1819 to 1849, and in 1866 it was linked by rail with Kiev, Kharkiv, and the Romanian city of Jassy. Industrialization began...
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Ivashko, Vladimir Antonovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Ukraine and made his career in politics. He graduated from the Kharkiv Mining Institute in 1956 and joined the Communist Party in 1960. In 1978 he was appointed secretary of the Kharkiv oblast (provincial) committee of the Party, and by 1986 he...
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Ukrainian literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...ethnography is represented in the works of Levko Borovykovsky (1806-89) and Ambros Metlynsky (1814-70), poets of the Kharkiv romantic school. With the founding in the 1830s of a university in Kiev, the capital became once again the cultural center...
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Simon Kuznets
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Simon Kuznets , 1901-85, American economist, b. Kharkiv, Russia (now in Ukraine), grad. Columbia (B.S., 1923; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., 1926). He emigrated to the United...
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Kiev
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...succession by German, White Russian, Polish, and Soviet troops. In 1934 the capital of the Ukrainian SSR was transferred from Kharkiv to Kiev. German forces held the city during World War II and massacred thousands of its inhabitants, including 50,000 Jews...
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