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

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

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

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 • Jun. 15, 2022

Relative to some of the other leaked content sourced by DDoSecrets, the Blagoveshchensk emails represent only a mid-sized leak.

From The Verge • Apr. 22, 2022

In Nov. 2013, athletes swam with the Olympic flame in Blagoveshchensk, Russia on Day 44 of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay, marking the longest torch relay in Olympic history following a 39,000-mile route.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2014

Leaving Blagoveshchensk the country continued level near the river, but the mountains gradually approached it and on the south bank they came to the water fifteen or twenty miles above Sakhalin-Oula.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace