Ukranian city

Usage examples of poltava.

Vassilyevich Gogol was born on April 1, 1809, in the village of Sorochintsy, Mirgorod district, Poltava province, in the Ukraine, also known as Little Russia.

Mikita, who went off to the Poltava market every two weeks and cracked such jokes that good people held their sides from laughter.

He died in December 1921 in Poltava, which during the last few years of his life had more than once been taken and retaken by the various parties in the civil war.

As soon as we were installed, we and another armored train went to Kharol, 100 kilometers west of Poltava, where we did some firing practice to get acquainted with our new guns.

Kharkov recaptured, was stuck in the mud outside Poltava, a hundred fifty kilometers away.

The name of the glorious hetman, who had almost destroyed Peter the Great at the battle of Poltava, glittered in gold letters on a sky-blue silk standard.

Since this was signed I have seen that the Russians are even endeavouring to take away your airfields which are located at Poltava and elsewhere behind their lines.

Beyond the steppes which encompass the whole southern seacoast of Russia, from the Sea of Azof to the Danube, there spreads far inland a fertile region, embracing the whole or part of the Governments of Podolia, Poltava, Kharkof, Kief, Voronei, Don Cossacks, etc.

Odessa was thus reduced to the trade of the region to the west of the last-named river, having lost that of the provinces of Poltava, Kharkof, Kursk, Orel, Ekaterinoslaf, etc.

The father managed the estate of a wealthy landowner in Poltava and lived apart from his family.