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    Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (Russian: Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко; Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Антонов-Овсієнко; 9 March...
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  • the city of Zaporizhzhia (then called Oleksandrivsk in Ukrainian or Aleksandrovsk in Russian), which was again adopted by the city in 2003, with the magenta...
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  • with its allies in the Don Host. This alarmed local Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, who desperately attempted to establish a defensive line...
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    of hundreds of soldiers’ lives. Yelisavetgrad (Kropyvnytskyi) (1754) Aleksandrovsk (Zaporizhzhia) (1770) Yekaterinoslav (Dnipro) (1776) Kherson (1778)...
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    from Odessa on the boat Peterburg on March 19, 1889, arriving in Port Aleksandrovsk, Sakhalin, on May 19, 1889. Sternberg agitated authorities due to his...
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    Marinka had 1,318 residents. Administratively, Marinka belonged to Aleksandrovsk county in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. The village administration...
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    to investigate the coal potential of the Archipelago. He sailed from Aleksandrovsk-na-Murmane (now Polyarnyy, near Murmansk) on 26 June. The personnel...
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    chose a military career. He graduated from the Vladimir Kiev Cadet Corps (1898), the elite Aleksandrovsk Military School (1900, finished third in his class)...
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    city 1802–1887 1874, the Mariupol (Марiуполь) uyezd was split off the Aleksandrovsk uyezd. 1887, Rostov-na-Donu city as well as Taganrog city with its uyezd...
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    forces captured Kharkiv (December 26), Yekaterinoslav (January 9), Aleksandrovsk (January 15), and Poltava (January 20) on their way to Kyiv. On January...
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    expedition to Svalbard to investigate the coal potential. He sailed from Aleksandrovsk-na-Murmane (now Polyarnyy, near Murmansk) on 26 June on ship Gerkules...
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  • the lower Dnieper river area, around Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro) and Aleksandrovsk (now Zaporizhia). In 1803 Catherine II's grandson, Tsar Alexander I...
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    3.3% Krasnovodsk 62.4% 19.3% 9.7% 3.4% Mangyshlak (centred on Fort-Aleksandrovsk) 4% 93% 2.6% - Merv 88% - 4.5% 0.8% Tejen 82% - 7.9% 4.1% Total 65%...
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    Charles Baird (engineer) (category Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class)
    Gascoigne, a son of the owner's family, to Russia to establish the Aleksandrovsk gun factory at Petrozavodsk, and a cannonball foundry at Kronstadt....
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    the major cities of Kryvyi Rih, Yelisavetgrad, Nikopol, Melitopol, Aleksandrovsk, Berdiansk, Mariupol and the Makhnovist capital of Huliaipole. By 20...
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  • disarmed two regiments of the Ukrainian People's Republic. By January 15, Aleksandrovsk was occupied, which made it possible to establish contact with the Crimea...
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    zone was introduced in the occupied territory and the coat of arms of Aleksandrovsk from the times of the Russian Empire were installed, with which they...
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    Regional Museum of Local History. Yudel Pen was born in 1854 in Novo-Aleksandrovsk (now Zarasai, Lithuania), to a poor Jewish family. His father, Movsha...
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  • southern and eastern Ukraine were established or developed in this period: Aleksandrovsk (now Zaporizhzhia; 1770), Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro; 1776), Kherson...
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    out Katerynoslav Governorate and Taurida Governorate (initially as Aleksandrovsk) Odesa Governorate was split from the Kherson Governorate once again...
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    Uyezd was restored, but in 1899, the Uyezds center was transferred to Aleksandrovsk, and the uyezd was renamed to become the Aleksandrovsky Uyezd. In 1891...
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    Russian, half of the island formed Sakhalin Oblast, with the capital at Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky.[citation needed] Between 1848 and 1902, American whaleships...
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    it in 1985. After school graduation, Yelena Greshnyakova studied in Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky Pedagogical College. She graduated college with honours...
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  • – Fyodor Yenakiyev [ru; uk] Zhovkva – Stanisław Żółkiewski Former: Aleksandrovsk, Oleksandrivsk was the name of Zaporizhzhia – Emperor Alexander I Artemivsk...
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    northern Taurida, repulsing its attacks towards the Donbas, Nikopol and Aleksandrovsk, which aimed at creating a bridgehead on the Dnieper's right bank. The...
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    Volga along with Christopher Hansteen. In 1834, he established Novo Aleksandrovsk fort in Karasu Bay to keep nomadic raiders away from the Russian station...
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    entered the already liberated Kherson and later for two months left in Aleksandrovsk (today Zaporizhzhia) where the Archduke began a series of turbulent...
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  • born illegitimate into a poor family in Novocherkassk. He entered the Aleksandrovsk railroad school in 1884 and trained to become a mechanic/engine driver...
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    Bolshevik uprising against the Central Council of Ukraine occurred in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine. It was put down three days later. German submarine SM U-87...
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    with the 6th and 7th Armies from November 1918 to 1920. Defended the Aleksandrovsk-Melitopol railroad line on the Southern Front in August 1920. Awarded...
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