Stalinabad
Britishnoun
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Beginning in the 1930s, the Soviets sent architects to transform its scattering of mud-brick structures into a metropolis whose official name, for decades, would be Stalinabad.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
Soviet cities such as Stalinabad and Stalingrad had been renamed in the early 1960s and little emphasis was placed on his personal role in the victory of 1945.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2015
This left only Stalinabad, southeast of Samarkand, and another Stalinsk, a new industrial city in what might be the new Russia�Central Siberia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino and Stalinabad and Stalinogrosk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Khrushchev addressed a mass meeting in Tashkent, Bulganin talked in Stalinabad.
From Time Magazine Archive
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