Kemerovo

[kem-uh-roh-vuh, kye-myi-ruh-vuh]

noun

1. a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, NE of Novosibirsk.

Kemerovo

/ ˈkjemɪrəvə /

noun

1. Former name (until 1932): Shcheglovsk. a city in S Russia: a major coal-mining centre of the Kuznetsk Basin, with important chemical plants. Pop: 479 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Back down on earth, at a maternity hospital in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, newborn babies are being dressed in miniature Red Army caps and capes.

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"Evacuation of the miners is being carried out," the Kemerovo emergency services said, reporting that a degassing box had caught fire on the surface.

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Siberia.Realities, a local project of U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe which Russian authorities have designated a "foreign agent", said a court in the Siberian region of Kemerovo had handed down the guilty verdict.

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In August, the Department for Family and Children in Russia’s Krasnodar region posted a statement on its website that more than 1,000 children from Ukraine had been adopted by families in distant cities including Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and even the Altai Territory, more than 2,000 miles from Ukraine.

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In 2018, 60 people - including 37 children - died in a leisure centre fire in Kemerovo.

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