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Cher⋅ni⋅gov

  [chur-nee-gawf, -gof; Russ. chyir-nyee-guhf]
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–noun
a city in N Ukraine, on the Desna River. 291,000.
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Cher·ni·hiv   (chər-nē'həv, -nyē'hēw)   
A city of north-central Ukraine north-northeast of Kiev. First mentioned in 907, it was the capital of the Chernigov principality in the 11th century and later passed to Lithuania, Poland, and Russia. Population: 300,000.
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