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- proper noun historical
Yekaterinburg (from 1921 to 1991). - proper noun Sverdlovsk oblast, a federal subject of Russia with the capital Yekaterinburg.
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Examples
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After World War II, the Soviet Union built a biological weapons facility in Sverdlovsk using documentation captured from Unit 731 in Manchuria.
the order looks upon humanity with disdain. intertribal 2009
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The Public Prosecutor of the small asbestos-mining town of Asbest in Sverdlovsk Region is pressing for a ban on Jehovah’s Witness literature, Forum 18 News Service has learnt.
Jehovah’s Witnesses plans for stadium service in Russia blocked 2008
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In October 1943, on the way to front from a hospital he spent 3 days with us in Sverdlovsk.
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TAUBMAN: Well, unbeknownst to the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, the route that they had designed for this flight, unhappily and unluckily, took him right over a missile battery outside of Sverdlovsk, which is on the eastern flank of the Urals.
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, The CIA, and The Hidden Story of America�s Space Espionage 2003
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When Frances Gary Powers was shot down over Sverdlovsk, Russia, in 1960, the U-2 program lost its cover.
The Road to Area 51: After Decades of Denyial, Five Former Insiders Speak Out | Impact Lab 2010
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Powers's nine-hour flight was to take him over the Soviet missile facilities at Plesetsk and Sverdlovsk; he was supposed to land in Bodo, Norway.
A Spy's Ill-Fated Flight From Pakistan Mark Yost 2011
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A plane crash in 1950 near the Russian city of Sverdlovsk, now called Yekaterinburg, killed 13 players and officials in the Soviet air force's ice hockey squad.
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As in Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin worked punishing hours himself and demanded similar exertion from subordinates, scolding and firing officials to energize the others.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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A plane crash in 1950 near the Russian city of Sverdlovsk, now called Yekaterinburg, killed 13 players and officials in the Soviet air force's ice hockey squad.
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Ms. Guillemin's "American Anthrax" benefits from her experience, as a senior adviser in the Security Studies Program at MIT, interviewing survivors of the 1979 accidental anthrax contamination of the population of Sverdlovsk, Russia.
When Death Came Hand-Delivered Edward Jay Epstein 2011
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