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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Russia south of Lipetsk. Founded as a frontier fortress in 1586, it was a shipbuilding center during the reign of Peter the Great.
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- proper noun A city in
Russia .
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Examples
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Cherenkov was born in Voronezh Region on July 28, 1904.
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Another bare room with minimal furniture, this time in Voronezh, where Nadia and Osip Mandelstam have been sent in exile.
In the Jaws of Kronos, Act III, scenes 1 & 2 David Ackley 2011
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Media reports, citing opposition parties as their sources, said that local administrations in regions including Voronezh, Kemerovo, Tambov, Ryazan and Izhevsk have variously asked public employees to gather signatures for United Russia, instructed them to vote for the party, or offered public employees or pensioners various benefits if they help United Russia achieve a certain percent of the vote.
Human Rights Watch: Q & A: Russian National Elections in 2011 and 2012 Human Rights Watch 2011
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It was the first of the Voronezh poems, the one which begins;
In the Jaws of Kronos, Act III, scenes 1 & 2 David Ackley 2011
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A photo of a rally against this month's Russian elections that appeared with a Dec. 12 World News article about the antigovernment protests was taken in Voronezh, Russia.
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Setting: A grated window at Lubianka Prison; a train station; a hospital room; Voronezh..
In the Jaws of Kronos, Act III, scenes 1 & 2 David Ackley 2011
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It was the first of the Voronezh poems, the one which begins;
In the Jaws of Kronos, Act III, scenes 1 & 2 David Ackley 2011
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Young Poet: In Voronezh streets they would see some of the millions of displaced peasants, driven all over the countryside in Stalin's campaign to starve them out by driving them from the land and confiscating all they owned.
In the Jaws of Kronos, Act III, scenes 1 & 2 David Ackley 2011
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Kropotkin: A simple workman in the glass factory of Voronezh.
In the Jaws of Kronos, Act III, scenes 1 & 2 David Ackley 2011
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They chose Voronezh, where his health gradually returned and the aural hallucinations, the threats and plots of his murder from passersby declined and in time ceased altogether.
In the Jaws of Kronos, Act III, scenes 1 & 2 David Ackley 2011
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