Novgorod

American  

[nov-guh-rod, nawv-guh-ruht] / ˈnɒv gəˌrɒd, ˈnɔv gə rət /

noun

1. a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, SE of St. Petersburg: a former capital of Russia.

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Novgorod British  

/ ˈnɔvɡərət /

noun

1. a city in NW Russia, on the Volkhov River; became a principality in 862 under Rurik, an event regarded as the founding of the Russian state; a major trading centre in the Middle Ages; destroyed by Ivan the Terrible in 1570. Pop: 215 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

He was thrilled to receive a scholarship to study political science and world history in Nizhny Novgorod, some 250 miles east of Moscow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Visiting Moscow from the Nizhny Novgorod region, 65-year-old pensioner Nadezhda complained it was "unfair" that Moscow was in incomparably better shape than her town.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

For its part, Kyiv said it attacked another Russian airbase in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which lies 400 miles from the Ukrainian border.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2025

About an hour before that Mordovia attack, Russia’s civil aviation authority halted flights at airports in two of the country’s largest cities, Nizhny Novgorod and Tatarstan’s Kazan, because of safety concerns.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

One further matter: I was followed from Novgorod by a man whose dæmon was a hyena.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman