Nizhni Novgorod

American  

[nizh-nee nov-guh-rod, nyee-zhnyee nawv-guh-ruht] / ˈnɪʒ ni ˈnɒv gəˌrɒd, ˈnji ʒnji 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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Nizhni Novgorod

The GAZ auto works in Nizhni Novgorod has shut down its assembly lines; the giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works in the Urals has placed 3,000 workers on forced leave.

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Nizhni Novgorod was renamed Gorky, for the chronicler of the working class, Maxim.

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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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Nemtsov, the former mayor of Nizhni Novgorod, is one of Yeltsin's favorites, and he will probably reappear in a senior post in the next Cabinet.

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I am sitting at home in Moscow, but meantime my enterprise in the Nizhni Novgorod province is in full swing already!

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance