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Poltava, Battle of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
POLTAVA, BATTLE OF The Battle of Poltava was the defining battle of the Great Northern War (1700...along the River Vorskla to the north of the Ukrainian city of Poltava. After the rejection of a Russian peace offer in 1707, the...
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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...and wood products. One of the oldest Ukrainian cities, Poltava was the site of a Slavic settlement in the 8th and 9th...
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...they are Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad...Slobozhanshchyna, Zaporizhzhya, Steppes Ukraine, Poltava, Cherkasy, Polissya, Podillya, Volyn...developed in the eighteenth century from the Poltava and Kyiv dialects. Distinctive dialects...
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Rabbinical Commission
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...law: the merchant Bernshtein (Odessa), D. Orshansky (Poltava), Shimel Merkel (Kovno province), and Dr. Cherolzon...Landau (Kiev), German Barats (Vilna), and A. Maidevsky (Poltava), Iosef Evzel Gintsburg, and two learned Jews from the Ministry...
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Charles XII (Sweden) (1682–1718; Ruled 1697–1718)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...the Ukraine. On 28 June 1709, he attacked the Russians at Poltava. The odds were against him. The Russians were well prepared...xE4; ldet. G ö teborg, 2002. Englund, Peter. Poltava. Ber ä ttelsen om en arm é s underg å...
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Russo-Ottoman Wars (1710–1711; 1736–1739; 1768–1774; 1787–1792)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...politics. Russia's overwhelming victory against the Swedes at Poltava in 1709 has been attributed to the fact that Ali Pasha kept...Russian sentiments even more. When it appeared that after their Poltava triumph the Russians were getting ready to attack the Crimea...
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...plant nutrition. Trofim Lysenko was born on Sept. 30, 1898, in the Ukrainian village of Karlovka in Poltava Province. He studied at the Poltava Primary School for Horticulture and Gardening (1913-1917) and at the Uman School for Horticulture...
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shuttle bombing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...bombers were allowed by the USSR to use three bases near Kiev (Poltava, Mirgorod, Pinyatin) to bomb Germany, Hungary, and Romania...plant south of Berlin, a German aircraft shadowed them to Poltava. That night the airfield, along with 58 aircraft, was destroyed...
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Augustus II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...years in Flanders fighting under the English general Marlborough against France. When Peter I of Russia defeated Charles at Poltava in July, 1709, Swedish domination of the north collapsed. Augustus was then able to return to Poland, while Stanislas fled...
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Alcohol Monopoly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...1896, it was introduced in the southwest, to the provinces of Bessarabia, Volynia, Podolia, Kherson, Kiev, Chernigov, Poltava, Tavrida, and Ekaterinoslav. Seven provinces in Belarus and Lithuania had the monopoly by 1897, followed by ten provinces...
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