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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

Misha lured Daniloff to the Lenin Hills with the promise that he would give him a packet of newspapers from Frunze.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Georgy Zhukov fought in the Red Revolution, served and studied under the Red Army's famed mentor, Mikhail Frunze.

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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