Moskva
[muh-skvah]
- Russian name of Moscow.
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Contemporary Examples
At about 8 p.m. dozens of masked men stormed the Moskva Hotel in the Crimean capital of Simferopol.
Historical Examples
I should like to start from the Moskva River and ride round the whole position.
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy
Was Moskva to lie in ruins, like another Kiev, a victim to her own renown?
The Rise of the Russian EmpireHector H. Munro
Half an hour later they were all three walking along the bank of the Moskva.
On the EveIvan Turgenev
At last we found the brutes entrenched on the banks of the Moskva.
Shortly after his return to Moskva, his cousin of Tver was summoned to present himself at the Horde.
The Rise of the Russian EmpireHector H. Munro
Moskva
- transliteration of the Russian name for Moscow
- a river in W central Russia, rising in the Smolensk-Moscow upland, and flowing southeast through Moscow to the Oka River: linked with the River Volga by the Moscow Canal. Length: about 500 km (310 miles)
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