Stalingrad

[ stah-lin-grad; Russian stuh-lyin-graht ]

/ ˈstɑ lɪnˌgræd; Russian stə lyɪnˈgrɑt /

noun

former name of Volgograd.

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Example sentences from the Web for stalingrad

The Third Reich met its nemesis as much here as it had—albeit in far greater numbers—at Stalingrad.
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Stalingrad, of course, was the epic battle of World War II which the Soviets finally won.
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It would be unfunny, for different reasons, if set at Verdun or Gettysburg or Stalingrad.
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His Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 are filled with vivid details.
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When the German troops reached Stalingrad they picked you up and other Russian people?
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Was your wife's mother living in Stalingrad when she died, do you know?
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Tobolsk doesn't appear on any of the maps, but it is a tiny village situated about eighty miles west of Stalingrad on the Volga.
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Let me see, in 1943, in time war; Germans come and taken over Stalingrad and pick me up and send to Germany.
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And, you actually went to Siberia before you came to Stalingrad?
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British Dictionary definitions for stalingrad

Stalingrad

/ (ˈstɑːlɪnˌɡræd, Russian stəlinˈɡrat) /

noun

the former name (1925–61) of Volgograd

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