Pamyat

[pahm-yaht]

noun

1. an ultraconservative Russian nationalist organization founded in 1980 and noted for disseminating anti-Western and antisemitic propaganda.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pamyat¹

First recorded in 1985–90; from Russian Pámyatʾ; literally, “memory, remembrance”

Example Sentences

Speaking about the people affected by the accident, he invoked the Russian phrase “vichnaya pamyat,” meaning “eternal memory.”

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By the time of his release in 1985, the word pamyat had become the name of an anti-Semitic nationalist movement.

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The Russian force, besides the three vessels already mentioned, included the armoured cruiser Dimitri Donskoi, the central-battery ship Kniaz Pojarski, the cruiser Pamyat Merkuriya, two of the new armoured cruisers, Mezen and Syzran, of the Rurik type, the corvette Razboynik, the torpedo gunboats Griden and Gaidamak, and the armoured gunboat Gremyastchy, with several torpedo boats.

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The huge guns of the Pamyat Azova, the Imperator Nicolai I., the Pjotr Velikij, the Krejser, the Najezdnik, and others, had belched forth their death-dealing missiles with an effect that was appalling.

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They included the Dimitri Donskoi, the Kniaz Pojarski, the Pamyat Merkuriya, the Mezen, the Syzran, the Griden, and the Gaidamak, all of which had taken part in the attack on Hull, while they had now been joined by the French battleships Mass�na and Neptune, the small cruisers Cosamo, Desaix, D'Estaing, Coetlogon, and Lalande, the torpedo gunboats Iberville, Lance, L�ger, and Fl�che, and the gun-vessels Etoile, Fulton, Gabes, Sagittaire, and Vip�re, with a large number of torpedo boats and "catchers," in addition to those which were at Hull.

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