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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

Kuibyshev was deeply opposed to any state recognition.

From The New Yorker Nov. 17, 2014

For a while, Kuibyshev prevailed, but in 1936, when Pavlov died, at eighty-six, a hundred thousand mourners, including Party officials, filed past his casket as he lay in state.

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

The great reinforced concrete dam at Kuibyshev stretches nearly three-fourths of a mile across the mighty Volga River.

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