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Definition of Tsaritsyn

1. Noun. A city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43.

Definition of Tsaritsyn

1. Proper noun. Former name of Volgograd before 1925 (called Stalingrad from 1925 to 1961). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Tsaritsyn

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"tsaritsyn, a district town of the government of Saratoff, Russia, situated on the right bank of the lower Volga where it suddenly turns towards the ..."

2. Through Russia: From St. Petersburg to Astrakhan and the Crimea by Maria Guthrie, Katharine Blanche Guthrie (1874)
"... between a Persian and a Russian—tsaritsyn—The Vauxhall—Variety of Spiders—The Puzzled Chelo- veck—A Great Delicacy—The Volga—Crops grown on the Steppes. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"From tsaritsyn 7 million cwts. of fish, salt, and naphtha are despatched by the fint of the three railways which traverse Russia from south-east to ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In the south, about tsaritsyn, where the hills were densely covered with them a few centuries ago, they have almost wholly disappeared. ..."

5. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"It is still larger in summer, tsaritsyn having become the gathering-place of ... In 1606 tsaritsyn took part iu the rising in favor of the false Demetrius, ..."

6. The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil by Robert W. Tolf (1976)
"tsaritsyn, the first, was completed in 1880 and had nine iron tanks holding five million gallons with pipelines running from wharf to tanks. ..."

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