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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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“My point of view is that we are sticking to the humanoid form too much,” said Max Goncharov, the chief technology officer at RemBrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

But with all that, the artistic qualities of his novels are incomparably below those of any one of the great Russian masters Tolstoi, Turgenev, or Goncharov.

From Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

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