Citations:Mariupol

English citations of Mariupol

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• 1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, volume II, →OCLC, page 114:

  The empreſs defrayed the expences of their tranſport from the Krim, and aſſigned to them a conſiderable tract of country bordering on the Solonoya and the ſea of Azof : the merchants, however, and the trading part of the colony were ſent to the newly-erected towns of Ekatarinoſlaf and Mariupol.

• 1943 February 14, Richard McMurray, “JAWS OF NUTCRACKER CLOSING STEADILY”, in The Daily Colonist‎^[1], volume 85, number 55, Victoria, British Columbia, page 3:

  The importance of their capture was obstructed, however, by the greater stakes of Rostov and Kharkov. The fall of either would be a major German catastrophe.
  An even graver danger threatened the Germans as troops seventy miles north of Mariupol, 100 miles west of Rostov on the Sea of Azov, drove south toward the tide water, threatening to envelop 500,000 German troops in Rostov and the Donets.

• 1943 June 17, War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea‎^[2], number 7, →OCLC, page 78:

  No incidents during passage across the Sea of Azov. At 1800 the formation continued passage to Mariupol as scheduled.

• [1996, Kathleen E. Smith, “The Movement and the Struggle”, in Remembering Stalin's Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR‎^[3], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:

  In Mariupolʹ social forces were emboldened by success in their first battle—a campaign to undo the naming of the city for one of Stalin’s associates, Andrei Zhdanov.]

• 2022 May 10, Natalia Zinets, “Ukraine says Russia pounding Mariupol steel works, mayor's aide says 100 civilians remain”, in Timothy Heritage, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 10 May 2022:

  Ukraine said Russian forces were pummelling a steel works in Mariupol on Tuesday where a local official said at least 100 civilians were still holed up with the last fighters defending the strategic southern city. […]
  Mariupol, a port on the Sea of Azov, has endured the most destructive fighting of the war in Ukraine. […]
  In the latest appeal for help in saving lives in Mariupol, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church urged Putin in a letter to let more civilians and fighters leave the city. […]
  Onufriy said "the residents of Mariupol and its defenders are in the same situation today."