Cheboksary

American  

[cheb-uhk-sahr-ee, chyi-buh-ksah-ri] / ˌtʃɛb əkˈsɑr i, tʃyɪ bʌˈksɑ rɪ /

noun

1. a port in and the capital of the Chuvash Autonomous Republic, in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.

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Cheboksary British  

/ tʃɪbakˈsari /

noun

1. a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

My favorite station, which is called Orthodox Chants, plays chants 24 hours a day from Cheboksary in central Russia; one spacious, moving chant into the next.

From Los Angeles Times

“A Walk in the Forest” was written by Klara Sheynis, a twenty-five-year-old tailor from Cheboksary, Russia.

From The New Yorker

A video of a violinist in an orchestra in the Volga River city of Cheboksary being detained during a rehearsal went viral.

From Washington Post

One of them, a Dutchman named Dagmar Kagie, watched from the sidelines in Cheboksary as the athletes made their way off the field to the changing rooms.

From Time

When he and the other monitors showed up at the Cheboksary stadium, they were interrogated by a man “who wanted to know everything,” he says.

From Time