Cheboksary

[cheb-uhk-sahr-ee, chyi-buh-ksah-ri]

noun

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

Cheboksary

/ tʃɪbakˈsari /

noun

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

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

Last September, in Cheboksary, 400 miles east of Moscow, 38-year-old Anna Ovchinnikova’s husband strangled her with a rope, placed her body in a suitcase and buried it in a nearby forest.

From The Guardian

“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