Nizhni Novgorod

American  

[nizh-nee nov-guh-rod, nyee-zhnyee nawv-guh-ruht] / ˈnɪʒ ni ˈnɒv gəˌrɒd, ˈnyi ʒnyi ˈnɔv gə rət /

noun

1. a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, E of Moscow, on the Volga River.

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Nizhni Novgorod British  

/ ˈniʒnij ˈnɔvɡərət /

noun

1. Former name (1932–91): Gorki.  a city and port in central Russia, at the confluence of the Volga and Oka Rivers: situated on the Volga route from the Baltic to central Asia; birthplace of Maxim Gorki. Pop: 1 288 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Everywhere Custine went�St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod, Yaroslavl�he found terror and its agent, the secret police.

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After flying last week from Moscow to the city of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia's bad-boy politician was dismayed to be confronted at the airport by demonstrators calling him a fascist.

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Using the beige coupons as money, people + bought 59 used trucks in the first such sell-off in the city of Nizhni Novgorod.

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She is 86, a retired doctor in Nizhni Novgorod who served as a combat surgeon through the worst of the war.

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The manner of our departure from Nizhni Novgorod was characteristically Russian,--but not by our own choice.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence