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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In Moscow and Kiev, in St. Petersburg and Nizhni Novgorod, authorities are organizing rallies and parades to honor the old soldiers.

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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 Imperial Russian Post, by which we purposed to travel from Yakutsk to Nizhni Novgorod, was, at that time, the longest and best organised horse-express service in the world.

From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George