But we know just before November 11th, 1918, he'd been in the city that was then called Tsaritsyn. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression & War] Reference
To wreck it all, you'd need a nuke or two great big armies fighting a no-holds-barred battle there — like, uh, Tsaritsyn in the War of the Three Emperors a hundred and fifty years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Disunited States of America] Reference
In 1917 he had joined the "Regimental and Divisional Revolutionary Committee," and after a number of vicissitudes found his way to Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad), where he had met up with Voroshilov. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Infiltrating German soldiers got within two hundred yards of the Tsaritsyn bunker, and some managed to get heavy machine guns into position where they could fire on the central landing stage. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Chuikov had been forced to move his headquarters out of the Tsaritsyn bunker to Matveyev-Kurgan, and with the central landing stage area neutralised, the garrison was now dependent on the factory ferries at the northern end of the town. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Here, too, lay the shortest route to the central landing stage, along the course of the Tsaritsa rivulet; and to the nerve centre of the Stalingrad defence system, Chuikov's own command post, which was in a dugout known as the "Tsaritsyn bunker," sunk into the side of the riverbed at the Pushkin Street bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Potapenko and I went to Yaroslav to take a steamer from there to Tsaritsyn, then to. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference
Tsaritsyn became an important river port and commercial centre in the 19th century. From Wordnik.com. [Pravda.Ru] Reference
Stalingrad did not become again Tsaritsyn, nor did Stalin Peak revert to an earlier name but rather was renamed Communism Peak. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
Volgograd originated with the foundation in 1589 of the fortress of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga Rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Pravda.Ru] Reference
This is especially interesting in view of recent place-name changes in Russia, whereby Tsaritsyn was changed to Stalingrad, then again to Volgograd. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1] Reference
Once this Stalingrad was Tsaritsyn. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
War, defenders of red Tsaritsyn. From Wordnik.com. [Virtual Globetrotting: Latest Maps] Reference
Tsaritsyn was renamed for Stalin. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
Tsaritsyn, Russia 55,186. From Wordnik.com. [People's Handy Atlas of the World 1910 Census Edition] Reference
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