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Definition of Kharkiv

1. Noun. A city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine.

Definition of Kharkiv

1. Proper noun. An industrial city in eastern Ukraine, administrative centre of Kharkiv province. ¹

2. Proper noun. Kharkiv province (''oblast''), in eastern Ukraine. ¹

3. Proper noun. Kharkiv river in Ukraine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Kharkiv

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ukraine, the Land and Its People: An Introduction to Its Geography by Stephen Rudnicki (1918)
"The milling industry, which, in general, is carried on chiefly in small water and wind-mills, possesses also some large mills operated by steam (Kharkiv, ..."

2. Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union by Roman Szporluk (2000)
"of the urban population in Kharkiv oblast (in 1959 the ratio was 31.97 ... The percentage of Ukrainians in Kharkiv oblast's urban population was 59.78 ..."

3. Nuclear Nonproliferation: Progress Made in Improving Security at Russian by Gene Aloise (2007)
"DOE provided MPC&A assistance to four sites in Ukraine: Kharkiv Institute of ... The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology conducts nuclear fuel cycle ..."

4. Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism by Alexander J. Motyl (1993)
"Dnipropetrovsk, one of Ukraine's largest industrial cities, was transformed into the center of the Soviet aerospace industry, while Kharkiv became a leading ..."

5. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"During the period covered by this report, there were no arrests made in the 1997 firebombing of the Kharkiv Israeli cultural center ..."

6. Ukraine: Energy Policy Review 2006 by International Energy Agency (2006)
"... glass producer) and Turbo-Spektr (a Kharkiv engineering company), jointly set up a new private energy service company called Energy Alliance. ..."

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