Novgorod

American  

[nov-guh-rod, nawv-guh-ruht] / ˈnɒv gəˌrɒd, ˈnɔv gə rət /

noun

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

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Novgorod British  

/ ˈnɔvɡərət /

noun

1. 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)

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Example Sentences

No visual evidence of an attack on Novgorod has been published, nor have any independent intelligence assessments been made public to confirm the veracity of Russia’s allegation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

Visiting Moscow from the Nizhny Novgorod region, 65-year-old pensioner Nadezhda complained it was "unfair" that Moscow was in incomparably better shape than her town.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

Head-to-head: England's men have only played Panama once – in Nizhny Novgorod seven years ago.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

About an hour before that Mordovia attack, Russia’s civil aviation authority halted flights at airports in two of the country’s largest cities, Nizhny Novgorod and Tatarstan’s Kazan, because of safety concerns.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

Since they had left Novgorod the previous week, Coram had known they were being followed.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman