Ordzhonikidze

[awr-jon-i-kid-zuh, uhr-juh-nyi-kyee-dzyi]

noun

1. Also Orjonikidze former name of Vladikavkaz.

2. former name of Yenakiyeve.

Ordzhonikidze

/ ardʒəniˈkidzɪ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

When commissar of industry Sergo Ordzhonikidze visited the site in 1933, he was disgusted by May’s superblock, which due to the lack of plumbing was surrounded by smelly outhouses, declaring, “You have named some manure a socialist city.”

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Stakhanov was instantly lavished with attention and praise: a delegation of local women presented him with flowers, the local paper published his story and the Soviet minister of industry, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, showed the story to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

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Cdr Crabb disappeared on 19 April 1956 in Portsmouth harbour while spying on the Ordzhonikidze, which had brought Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin to the UK.

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One bomb exploded at a market in the town of Ordzhonikidze, wounding two police officers who were having lunch at a cafe, police said.

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"Such declarations on the part of the head of state are inadmissible in international relations," said Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the UN chief in Geneva.

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