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Dnepr

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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.
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Dnieper River

 Russian 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.



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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).
Revolution of the Jewish street: Smolensk, 1917 by Hickey, Michael C. / Journal of Social History
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).
Wartime strategic direction of Soviet Armed Forces: historical lessons by Malashenko, Yevgeny Ivanovich / Military Thought
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.
Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late ... by Bushnell, John / Journal of Social History
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