Pavlodar

American

[pav-luh-dahr, puh-vluh-dahr] / ˌpæv ləˈdɑr, pə vlʌˈdɑr /

noun

a city in NE Kazakhstan.

Pavlodar British

/ pəvlaˈdar /

noun

a port in NE Kazakhstan on the Irtysh River: major industrial centre with an oil refinery. Pop: 303 000 (2005 est)

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Saltanat's childhood was spent in the north-east city of Pavlodar - close to Kazakhstan's border with Russia.

From BBC • May 24, 2024

Ties between the two go back to tsarist times, when northern cities such as Pavlodar and Uralsk were founded by the Russians as military outposts.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2014

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