Pechora

American  

[puh-chawr-uh, -chohr-uh, pyi-chyaw-ruh] / pəˈtʃɔr ə, -ˈtʃoʊr ə, pyɪˈtʃyɔ rə /

noun

1. a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1,110 miles (1,785 km) long.

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Pechora British  

/ pɪˈtʃɔrə /

noun

1. a river in N Russia, rising in the Ural Mountains and flowing north in a great arc to the Pechora Sea (the SE part of the Barents Sea). Length: 1814 km (1127 miles)

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Example Sentences

The Jewish girl and her family were first imprisoned in a ghetto on the outskirts of town and later forced onto a cattle car that took them to the Pechora concentration camp in 1941.

From Washington Times • Apr. 18, 2023

For Russia, even more significant oil and gas prospects lie further east in the Kara and Pechora Seas and on the Yamal Peninsula, a slender extension of Siberia.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2020

Russia says activists endangered lives and property in the protest at the state-controlled energy giant Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya platform in the Pechora Sea, a key element of Russia's plans to develop the Arctic.

From Reuters • Dec. 25, 2013

Greenpeace International sent the ship to the Pechora Sea to draw attention to the potential environmental threats caused by a rush to exploit natural resources in the Arctic.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2013

He declared vnto me that he was bound to Pechora, and after that I made to drinke, the tide being somewhat broken, they gently departed.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882