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Ordzhonikidze

American  
[awr-jon-i-kid-zuh, uhr-juh-nyi-kyee-dzyi] / ˌɔr dʒɒn ɪˈkɪd zə, ʌr dʒə nyɪˈkyi dzyɪ /

noun

  1. Also Orjonikidze former name of Vladikavkaz.

  2. former name of Yenakiyeve.


Ordzhonikidze British  
/ ardʒəniˈkidzɪ /

noun

  1. the former name (1954–91) of Vladikavkaz

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The accused took part in collecting incriminating evidence against Ordzhonikidze .

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Andropov carried his campaign to the shop floor of Moscow's Ordzhonikidze machine-tool factory, assuring workers that he intended to get tough with everyone, "beginning with the ministers."

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On the following day, the Russian cruiser Ordzhonikidze steamed into Portsmouth harbor bearing Visitors Khrushchev and Bulganin.

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Last week Andropov went to Moscow's Sergo Ordzhonikidze machine-tool factory, where he held a shop-floor version of a town meeting, and bluntly told the employees that "without discipline we cannot advance quickly."

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Georgia also gave to Russia Grigory Ordzhonikidze, late great commissar of heavy industry, and Ordzhonikidze gave his name to the town at the junction of two highways.

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