Anadyr

American  

[ah-nuh-deer] / ˌɑ nəˈdɪər /

noun

1. a river in NE Siberian Russia, flowing SW and E to Anadyr Bay, on the Bering Sea. 695 miles (1,118 km) long.

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Anadyr British  

/ aˈnadirj /

noun

1. a town in Russia, in NE Siberia at the mouth of the Anadyr River; the capital of Chukot Autonomous Okrug. Pop: 11 038 (2002)

2. a mountain range in Russia, in NE Siberia, rising over 1500 m (5000 ft)

3. a river in Russia, rising in mountains on the Arctic Circle, south of the Anadyr Range, and flowing east to the Gulf of Anadyr. Length: 725 km (450 miles)

4. an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia

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Example Sentences

Ivan Druri arrived from Murmansk in 1929, charged with organizing Chukotka’s first sovkhoz at Snezhnoe, a settlement a hundred miles northwest of Anadyr.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Anadyr was built on extracting animals from Chukotka, the peninsula that nearly touches North America at the Bering Strait.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

The simultaneous experience of collectivization and purges increased the number of reindeer collective farms in the Anadyr region to twenty-one by 1940.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Gemav’e was arrested and died in jail in Anadyr.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Macrae and Arnold had explored nearly all the region lying south of the Anadyr and along the lower Myan, and had gained much valuable information concerning the little-known tribe of Wandering Chukchis.

From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George