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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southern Ukraine at the mouth of the Southern Bug River northeast of Odessa. Founded c. 1784 as a fortress, it became a shipbuilding center in the 1780s.

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  • The Ukrainian servicemen were awaiting further orders Wednesday at their southern Ukrainian base in Mykolayiv on the Black Sea.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Mykolayiv, Odesa, Sevastopol ', Pivdenne; inland - Kiev (Kyyiv)

    The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • The ombudsman made her comments at a Sept. 23 press conference in which she praised a Sept. 17 Mykolayiv Oblast appellate court ruling that exonerated Lutiev.

    News on www.kyivpost.com 2008

  • But it seems to me that it's dishonest to make money from the misfortune of neighboring states, "Yulia Tymoshenko said during a press conference in Mykolayiv, commenting on the situation regarding the transit of

    forUm 2010

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