[bal-uh-klah-vuh; Russ. buh-luh-klah-vuh] 
| a seaport in S Crimea, in the S Ukraine, on the Black Sea: scene of English cavalry charge against Russians (1854), celebrated in Tennyson's poem Charge of the Light Brigade. |
| Bal·a·kla·va also Bal·a·cla·va (bāl'ə-klāv'ə, -klä'və) A section of the city of Sevastopol in the Crimea of southern Ukraine. During the Crimean War Balaklava became famous for the doomed charge of the British Light Brigade against heavy Russian fire (October 25, 1854). |
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