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1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, volume II, →OCLC, page 114:
The empreſs defrayed the expences of their tranſport from the Krim, and aſſigned to them a conſiderable tract of country bordering on the Solonoya and the ſea of Azof : the merchants, however, and the trading part of the colony were ſent to the newly-erected towns of Ekatarinoſlaf and Mariupol.
1943 February 14, Richard McMurray, “JAWS OF NUTCRACKER CLOSING STEADILY”, in The Daily Colonist, volume 85, number 55, Victoria, British Columbia, page 3:
The importance of their capture was obstructed, however, by the greater stakes of Rostov and Kharkov. The fall of either would be a major German catastrophe. An even graver danger threatened the Germans as troops seventy miles north of Mariupol, 100 miles west of Rostov on the Sea of Azov, drove south toward the tide water, threatening to envelop 500,000 German troops in Rostov and the Donets.
1943 June 17, War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, number 7, →OCLC, page 78:
No incidents during passage across the Sea of Azov. At 1800 the formation continued passage to Mariupol as scheduled.
In Mariupolʹ social forces were emboldened by success in their first battle—a campaign to undo the naming of the city for one of Stalin’s associates, Andrei Zhdanov.]