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Poltava

Industrial city in eastern Ukraine, capital of Poltava oblast, and situated on the River Vorskla, 300 km/186 mi southeast of Kiev; population (1990) 317,000. The city manufactures machinery, foodstuffs, and clothing, and is the market centre for a fertile agricultural area. Peter the Great routed a Swedish and Ukrainian Cossack force led by Charles XII of Sweden here in 1709, so ending the Great Northern War.

A settlement from the 8th-9th centuries, Poltava was first mentioned in chronicles in 1174. It was destroyed by Mongol invasion in 1240, and was ruled by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 14th century. Poltava suffered considerable damage during World War II.



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Balashev involuntarily flushed with pleasure at the aptitude of this reply, but hardly had he uttered the word Poltava before Caulaincourt began speaking of the badness of the road from Petersburg to Moscow and of his Petersburg reminiscences.
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