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Ordzhonikidze

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

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Soviet archaeologists have long been tantalized by the huge mounds of earth outside the town of Ordzhonikidze in the southern Ukraine.

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He dashed to Moscow for his first meeting with Lenin and Stalin, then rode triumphantly back into Baku with Ordzhonikidze and Kirov at the head of the Red army.

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The centerpiece of the exhibition is, however, the 12-in.-wide gold pectoral dug from a kurgan or burial mound near the town of Ordzhonikidze in 1971.

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After the death sentence was passed on Piatakov, the "sudden death" of Ordzhonikidze was something Moscow correspondents not so much expected as awaited.

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The accused took part in collecting incriminating evidence against Ordzhonikidze .

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