Kuntsevo

[koon-suh-voh, koon-tsi-vuh]

noun

1. a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.

Example Sentences

Moscow’s Kuntsevo District Court gave Zhukov a three-year suspended sentence and banned him from administering websites for two years.

From Seattle Times

Mr. Philby, who never wavered in his loyalty despite Moscow’s 1939-41 pact with Hitler and the invasions of Hungary in 1956 and of Czechoslovakia in 1968, was long regarded as a hero in the Soviet Union, which hailed him as a committed Marxist, put his face on a postage stamp and buried him in the Kuntsevo cemetery in Moscow along with other Soviet heroes, including the secret police agent who murdered Leon Trotsky.

From New York Times

Around a table groaning with delicious Georgian specialities, mealtimes at his Kuntsevo dacha were prime time for bullying power games.

From BBC

The home of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin — at Kuntsevo on the outskirts of Moscow — has been left almost unchanged since the dictator’s death in 1953.

From Time

Kim Philby is buried in Moscow's Kuntsevo cemetery, not far from Leon Trotsky's assassin Fifty years ago one of Britain's most infamous spies, Kim Philby, defected to the Soviet Union.

From BBC