Frunze

[froon-zuh, froon-zyuh]

noun

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

Frunze

/ ˈfrunzɪ /

noun

1. the former name (until 1991) of Bishkek

Example Sentences

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

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Four years later, while a student at the Frunze Military Academy, the general was given a suspended sentence for illegally selling a pistol to a classmate.

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Ion Frunze, from Corby, was prosecuted in January at Leicester Magistrates' Court for drink driving, driving without due care and attention, driving without a licence and having no insurance.

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Two years later, the Communists, under the leadership of Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, were at the doors of these vassal kingdoms, driving their khans and emirs into exile.

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"Mikhail Frunze may have been a Red commander, but at least he was a real person who doesn't get 'overgrown with details'," one supporter wrote to Radio Azattyk.

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