Blagoveshchensk

American  

[blah-guh-vesh-ensk, -chensk, bluh-guh-vye-shchyinsk] / ˌblɑ gəˈvɛʃ ɛnsk, -tʃɛnsk, blə gʌˈvyɛ ʃtʃyɪnsk /

noun

1. a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Amur River.

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Blagoveshchensk British  

/ bləɡaˈvjeʃtʃɪnsk /

noun

1. a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

The Angara airlines An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport, officials said.

From BBC

Local tourists come here to peek into neighbouring Blagoveshchensk, just across the river, but there are not many of them.

From BBC

A newly-built bridge into Blagoveshchensk from Heihe was celebrated as the symbol of a new era in cross-border trade yet you can observe it for an hour and not see a single vehicle driving in either direction.

From BBC

The five received terms of between six years and three months to six and a half years in the city of Blagoveshchensk, it said in a statement, noting the FSB security service had begin probing the local chapter in 2017.

From Reuters

Last week, China and Russia opened a bridge linking Heihe, a border city in northeast China, to the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk.

From New York Times