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

The maneuvers also saw Onyx cruise missiles being fired at a practice target in the Gulf of Anadyr from the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula, it added.

From Seattle Times

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

In the winter of 1919, the settlement of Anadyr, just below the Arctic circle, was a cluster of cabins: storehouses of fox, bear, and wolverine pelts; the offices of a few fur companies; and the imperial Russian administrator’s post.

From The New Yorker

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

From The New Yorker

Anadyr’s workers were mostly indigenous to Chukotka’s tundra and rocky coastline.

From The New Yorker