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Bila Tserkva , Rus. Belaya Tserkov, city (1989 pop. 197,000), in central Ukraine, on the Ros River. It is a rail junction and an industrial and commercial center. Industries include food processing and the manufacture of machinery, clothing, and building materials. The city was founded in 1032 and was the headquarters of the Ukrainian Cossacks in the 17th cent. It passed to Russia in 1793.
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Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 27, 2002 700+ words Byline: STEVE GUTTERMAN Associated Press - BILA TSERKVA, Ukraine -- This city's name means ``white church...daughter and Vera's parents in a two-room apartment in Bila Tserkva, 50 miles south of Kiev, the capital. They rarely... |
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer October 10, 2002 700+ words ...60, who talked politics as she sat on a bench in Bila Tserkva, a city about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Kiev...worker sitting with his wife near a Lenin statue in Bila Tserkva's central square. Why trade one mafia for another... |
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer October 23, 2002 700+ words 00-00-0000 Dateline: BILA TSERKVA, Ukraine This city's name means white church, but...daughter and Vera's parents in a two-room apartment in Bila Tserkva, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Kiev, the capital... |
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream MARA D. BELLABY, Associated Press Writer March 25, 2006 700+ words ...complained that whole streets have disappeared from some lists, while the names of some deceased Ukrainians remain. In Bila Tserkva outside Kiev, some 17 percent of the more than 160,000 names on the list are repeated, the party said. "It's... |
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Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) November 10, 2009 700+ words ...and was awarded 11 combat decorations. The most renowned female sniper of all was Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Born in Bila Tserkva in 1916, she moved to Kiev with her family at the age of 14, joining a shooting club there while wo |
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Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream October 29, 2002 700+ words ...alone; MOVED Monday, Oct. 28. FEATURES AND ADVANCES UKRAINE: ADVANCE FOR OCT. 27; map locates Ukraine town of Bila Tserkva; 1c x 1 5/8 inches; 47 mm x 41 mm; with BC-Ukraine at Crossroads; MOVED Monday, Oct. 21. HIPPOCAMPUS: ADVANCE... |
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Obituary: Patriarch Volodymyr Romanyuk
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Felix Corley July 21, 1995 700+ words ...Bishop of Uzhhorod and Khust in April 1990, with missionary responsibility in Eastern Ukraine. He became Archbishop of Bila Tserkva in 1991 and in March 1993 Archbishop of Lviv. By now the Autocephalous Church had descended into chaos, with ambitious... |
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We will continue to help Chernobyl
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK) February 3, 2007 700+ words ...we receive them. The bikes are like new after they have been worked on. "The aid is going to Luda's home town, Bila Tserkva, and we work with The Children's Fund over there to distribute it. "As well as going to orphanages and day care... |
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Emergency blocks operation for child
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post January 6, 2006 700+ words ...was brought to the UK by her guardians Elaine and Jerry Chomyszak after being abandoned by her parents in the town of Bila Tserkva in the Ukraine following her birth. The battle for Luda to gain British citizenship was finally won in 2002. She has... |
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