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Nekrasov

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/ nɪˈkrasəf /

noun

  1. Nikolai Alekseyevich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1821–77, Russian poet, who wrote chiefly about the sufferings of the peasantry

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Acting energy minister Artem Nekrasov said it was the ninth large attack on Ukraine's energy system this year, and that supply in the Rivne, Ternopil and Khmelnytsky regions has been "almost completely" lost.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

For a brief period in the 1980s, Soviet technicians and advisers lived in 25 or 30 apartments in Macroyan Kohna, said Viacheslav Nekrasov, who directs the Russian cultural center in Kabul.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020

One of St. Petersburg’s more flamboyant journalists, Alexander Nekrasov, showed a photo on Instagram of a copy of one of Sokolov’s books, on which the historian had written, “With the dedicatory inscription of a maniac.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2019

He was involved in a 2011 arbitration claim against filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov over the production of a documentary.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2018

Also at this time there appeared the poet Nekrasov and the satirist Saltykov.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge