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- proper noun Alternative form of
Yekaterinburg .
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Ekaterinburg is where the czar and his family were liquidated, where the American U‑2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down, and where Boris Yeltsin got his start.
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Ekaterinburg is where the czar and his family were liquidated, where the American U‑2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down, and where Boris Yeltsin got his start.
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Sverdlovsk now called Ekaterinburg was one place stuff was manufactured. powerful stuff escaped from there.
Obama and defense expert Gates: on being “comfortable” with the nuclear posture 2010
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Now that S7 is in the Oneworld Alliance, BA is putting its code on the Russian airline's flights between Moscow and Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Ufa.
Iberia Adds Routes to Brazil; Visit Saudi on a Budget Jeff Mills 2011
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In Ekaterinburg, the local Bolsheviks, led by Yakov Yurovsky, feared that the family might be liberated by advancing monarchist forces.
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The Guardian's Leonard Barden on how Xu Yuhua became the new women's world champion at Ekaterinburg.
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Pondexter, who was playing overseas this winter for UMMC Ekaterinburg in Russia, helped the U.S. win its fourth straight gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
AP: Pondexter heads to New York Liberty in three-team trade 2010
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Speaking in response to a question at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Russian president said he had spoken with Chinese President Hu Jintao a year ago in the Urals Mountains city of Ekaterinburg about making the yuan a convertible reserve currency.
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The family was executed by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg in July 1918 to prevent the Romanovs from falling into White Russian hands.
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She was born Tatyana Auguschewitsch in Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) in Siberia on June 30, 1904 (June 17 according to the Russian calendar), to Jewish parents who had officially converted to Christianity because of the implacable antisemitism of Russian laws.
Tatyana Grosman. 2009
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