Pechenga

American

[puh-cheng-guh, pyi-chyen-guh] / pəˈtʃɛŋ gə, pyɪˈtʃyɛn gə /

noun

a village in the NW Russian Federation, on the Arctic Ocean W of Murmansk: ice-free all year; ceded by Finland 1944.

Pechenga British

/ ˈpɛtʃiŋɡə /

noun

Former name: Petsamo. a region of NW Russia, a former territory of N Finland, ceded by Soviet Russia to Finland in 1920 and taken back in 1944

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In one previously undisclosed incident on July 6, a Russian military helicopter dropped from the sky to make multiple passes just feet over the hood of a vehicle being driven by the U.S. defense attache, who was accompanied by colleagues, on a stretch of road between Murmansk and Pechenga in northern Russia.

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