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Dnepr: see Dneiper Dnieper (nē`pər), Rus. Dnepr, Ukr. Dnipro, river, c.1,430 mi (2,300 km) long, in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. ..... Click the link for more information. , river. Dnieper RiverRussian Dnepr ancient Borysthenes.River, eastern central Europe. One of the longest rivers in Europe, it rises west of Moscow and flows south through Belarus and Ukraine, emptying into the Black Sea after a course of 1,420 mi (2,285 km). More than 300 hydroelectric plants operate in the Dnieper basin, and it has several huge dams. Navigable for about 1,042 mi (1,677 km) during the 10 months of the year when it is not frozen, it is an important shipping artery for eastern Europe. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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14) Over 1,000 Jewish artisans and their families lived and worked in the city's poorest, dirtiest districts (Iamskaia and Petro-Pavlovskaia north of the Dnepr River, and Rachevskaia and Svirskaia to the south). For example, he did not let pull back forces to the eastern bank of the Dnepr and leave Kiev in early September 1941, when the South-Western Front faced a threat of encirclement (although the General Staff believed it was the right thing to do and so did the sector high commander and the front commander, who implored Stalin to give his permission). Yet Wynn gathers the evidence that the behavior of the workers of the Dnepr bend and Donbass was not unique from the very historians he challenges. |
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