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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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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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At the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, where old-line Commissar Ordzhonikidze gave notice that he would resist purging, Malenkov quietly put in his own security chief.

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Piatakov was not only one of the very biggest Reds but a warm and human character by comparison with the cold, brusque Ordzhonikidze.

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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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No one knows whether impetuous Sergo Ordzhonikidze got a chance to raise hell in the Politburo, but he died shortly thereafter.

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