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Goncharov

American  
[gon-chuh-rawf, -rof, guhn-chyi-rawf] / ˈgɒn tʃəˌrɔf, -ˌrɒf, gən tʃjɪˈrɔf /

noun

  1. Ivan Alexandrovich 1812–91, Russian novelist.


Goncharov British  
/ ˌɡʌntʃəˈrɔf /

noun

  1. Ivan Aleksandrovich (ɪˈvan alɛksanˈdrɔvɪtʃ). 1812–91, Russian novelist: his best-known work is Oblomov (1859)

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He tells us that Ivan Goncharov, a 19th-century writer, published three books, when he published four.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

Alexander Goncharov, a physicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, won’t go that far, but he thinks Hirsch’s concerns about AC susceptibility measurements are fair.

From Science Magazine Oct. 21, 2021

Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov won a bronze in 2006 and divorced in 2008.

From Slate Feb. 20, 2018

He’s currently rereading Trollope’s Palliser novels and “Oblomov,” a novel by the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov.

From New York Times Sep. 23, 2016

Being absorbed in bureaucratic work, Goncharov paid no attention to the social questions then ardently discussed by such men as Herzen, Aksakov and Bielinski.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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