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Soviet region
Answer for the clue "Soviet region ", 7 letters:
ukraine
Alternative clues for the word ukraine
- Southeast European country, formerly a European soviet
- Homeland of many Canucks
- The center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century
- Europe's second-largest nation
- Mila Kunis's and Milla Jovovich's place of birth
- Poland neighbor
- Nation on the Black Sea
- Southeast European country
- Land on the Black Sea
Word definitions for ukraine in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Russian or Polish Ukraina , literally "border, frontier," from u- "at" + krai "edge." So called from being regarded as the southern frontier of Poland or Russia. Related: Ukrainian .
Usage examples of ukraine.
The Ukraine had once been a breadbasket, but climate change had made it a dustbowl, and those of his relatives who were still there were starving.
All the hideous controversies about the purges, the Five Year Plans, the Ukraine famine, etc.
Kamil for more than two years to try and sell him three nuclear artillery warheads that he claims to have in the Ukraine.
During the chaotic transport operation to move the stockpiles of Soviet Army, Navy, and Strategic Rocket Force weapons from the Ukraine back to Russia in 1992, the redirection of the nine warheads was almost too easy.
Kiev in the Ukraine had, like Carlisle, been decimated by a meteor shower.
Kay turned the dial minutely anticlockwise, the sound wowed up and down an octave, the diva evaporated, more gunfire, and then, like stepping into an open space, a rapid, staccato dah-dah-dah-dah-dah of Morse, pulsing clearly and urgently, more than a thousand miles distant, somewhere in German-occupied Ukraine.
Most of the metanats immediately declared their support for this idea, and as the World Court had long ago begun as an agency of the UN, there were those who claimed the action would be legal and have some historical reason for being-but the first result was to disrupt some of the arbitrations in process, leading to fighting in Ukraine and Greece.
Most of the metanats immediately declared their support for this idea, and as the World Court had long ago begun as an agency of the UN, there were those who claimed the action would be legal and have some historical reason for being—but the first result was to disrupt some of the arbitrations in process, leading to fighting in Ukraine and Greece.
Forty correspondents in the hall came from Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, and Armenia.
Leonov's forces have launched a major offensive in the south, and Red units have invaded Ukraine and Belarus.
Now it was a civil war being fought on a ragged line all the way from Minsk to Vladivostok, one that already had engulfed Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan and might well soon involve China, North Korea, and most of Europe as well.
Standartenfuhrer Blobel, well along in his evening boozing, is poring over his SS maps of the Ukraine while he waits for Greiser to arrive.
All of which amounted to a steel wall of armament around Eastern Poland, Byelorussia, the Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvianow earmarked as a new circle in hell.
We're going to be worrying about fallout in the Baltics and Byelorussia and the western Ukraine for years to come.
She is Ukrainian, and the Ukrainians will insist that the goat-beards (their word for great Russians) are interlopers, that Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, is the true center of Slavic culture, that the Muscovites are upstarts, parvenus, johnny-come-latelies, tyrants, imperialists, thieves, carpet-baggers, and almost anything else of the kind you care to think of.