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  1. Industrial city (machinery, foodstuffs,
  2. clothing) in Ukraine, USSR, capital of
  3. Poltava region, on the river Vorskla;
  4. population (1987) 309,000. Peter the Great
  5. defeated Charles XII of Sweden here 1709.
  6.