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Kuibyshev

American  
[kwee-buh-shef, -shev, kooi-bi-shif] / ˈkwi bəˌʃɛf, -ˌʃɛv, ˈkuɪ bɪ ʃɪf /

noun

  1. a port in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.


Kuibyshev British  
/ ˈkujbɪʃəf /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1991) of Samara

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During World War II the Soviet government was evacuated to Samara, then known as Kuibyshev after a Communist leader, when it looked like Moscow might fall into German hands.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2018

Nikolai Bukharin, who considered Pavlov indispensable, made the case for him: “I know that he does not sing the ‘Internationale,’ ” Bukharin wrote to Valerian Kuibyshev, the head of the state planning committee.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014

Kuibyshev was deeply opposed to any state recognition.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014

He spent about two months in the Soviet Union trying to get straight answers, first in Moscow, then, when German forces reached the outskirts of the city, in Kuibyshev, the temporary wartime capital.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2012

Kuibyshev was a wonderful achievement, he repeated, but was it the best way to create electricity?

From Time Magazine Archive

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