Novgorod

[ nov-guh-rod; Russian nawv-guh-ruht ]

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noun

a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, SE of St. Petersburg: a former capital of Russia.

Novgorod

/ ˈnɔvɡərət /

a city in NW Russia, on the Volkhov River; became a principality in 862 under Rurik, an event regarded as the founding of the Russian state; a major trading centre in the Middle Ages; destroyed by Ivan the Terrible in 1570. Pop: 215 000 (2005 est)

The original Russian state, “Old Russia,” was established at Novgorod in A.D. 862 by marauding Vikings.

Officials brought the artist to the Nizhny Novgorod railway station and left her there.

I left my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, as a teenager in the midst of perestroika.

"I'm much afraid that the Nijni-Novgorod fair won't end as brilliantly as it has begun," responded the other, shaking his head.

He went to the office of the company whose boats plied between Nijni-Novgorod and Perm.

Formerly Makariew had the benefit of this concourse of traders, but since 1817 the fair had been removed to Nijni-Novgorod.

Was she merely going to Nijni-Novgorod, or was the end of her travels beyond the eastern frontiers of the empire?

However, being urged by the same instinct, they had left Nijni-Novgorod together.

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