Anadyr

[ah-nuh-deer]

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.

Anadyr

/ 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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