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Frunze

American  
[froon-zuh, froon-zyuh] / ˈfrun zə, ˈfrun zjə /

noun

  1. a former name (1926–91) of Bishkek.


Frunze British  
/ ˈfrunzɪ /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1991) of Bishkek

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But he might review a 1991 study of lessons from Afghanistan, prepared by Russia’s Frunze Military Academy and translated into English with the title “The Bear Went Over the Mountain.”

From Washington Post Oct. 1, 2015

From Copenhagen came the news that the War Lord had offered to leave Moscow, provided that the Triumvirate would reinstate his dismissed , adherents, oust General Frunze, the acting War Lord.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was sent to the Frunze Academy, Russia's equivalent of the Command and General Staff College, acquired a wife, four children, and more important, a Communist Party card.

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As chief of the Frunze Red Banner Military Academy, he had created a Red officers corps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Early in 1939, she began a two-year course at the M. V. Frunze Military Academy.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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