Zhitomir

[ Russian zhi-taw-myir ]

noun

1. the Russian name of Zhytomyr.

Zhitomir

/ ʒiˈtɔmir /

noun

1. a city in central Ukraine; centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 282 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, on June 3, 1923.

From New York Times

Among other cities they held Zhitomir, Kiev, Nikolayev, and Odessa.

From Project Gutenberg

Blank was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine.

From Time

The samples cited by Greenpeace were taken in the Rivne and Zhitomir regions, which were in the direct path of the radiation cloud.

From Seattle Times

The man who would lead the world into the space age, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907, in Zhitomir, in modern-day Ukraine.

From The Guardian