Kursk

American

[koorsk, koorsk] / kʊərsk, kursk /

noun

a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.

Kursk British

/ kursk /

noun

a city in W Russia: industrial centre of an agricultural region: scene of a major Soviet victory (1943). Pop: 410 000 (2005 est)

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For North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, the Kursk deployment was a gamble, its largest combat force ever sent overseas.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Lyubov was still searching for her mother's body, until she visited the mortuary last October during a trip to the regional capital Kursk.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The last time she spoke to her mother was a day after Ukrainian forces broke into Russia's Kursk region more than two years ago.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

And then in 2024 he masterminded the Kursk attack -- the first sustained foreign incursion into Russia since WWII.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

They flew over the busy railway station where the Soviet troops bound for Kursk were gathering, surrounded by a mess of smoking bomb craters in the dirty snow.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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