Chernigov

[chur-nee-gawf, -gof, chyir-nyee-guhf]

noun

1. the Russian name for Chernihiv.

Chernigov

/ ˈtʃɜːnɪɡɒf /

noun

1. a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Security Council that Russia would carry out a cease-fire Tuesday morning and made the suggestion that humanitarian corridors leading away from Kyiv, Mariupol, Sumy and Chernigov could let people choose where they want to seek safety.

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Moscow time and open humanitarian corridors to evacuate citizens from Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy and Mariupol.

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Civilians leaving the cities of Kyiv, Chernigov and Kharkiv would travel to Russia, some via Belarus, Interfax news agency reported, citing a statement by a Russian committee charged with humanitarian coordination in Ukraine.

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Alexey Feodosievich Wangenheim was born in 1881 in the village of Krapivo in the Chernigov Province of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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No ISIS,” said a commenter who identified himself as Semyon Chernigov from the city of Engels, about 500 miles southeast of Moscow.

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