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Tambov

American  
[tahm-bawf, -bawv, tuhm-bawf] / tɑmˈbɔf, -ˈbɔv, tʌmˈbɔf /

noun

  1. a city, in the Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.


Tambov British  
/ tamˈbɔf /

noun

  1. an industrial city in W Russia: founded in 1636 as a Muscovite fort; a major engineering centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The attacks struck logistics hubs of Wildberries—a Russian e-commerce company modeled on Amazon.com—in the Moscow and Tambov regions, igniting fires and forcing evacuations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Firefighters were still battling the blaze in the Moscow region's Elektrostal, while the fire in Tambov had been extinguished, regional authorities said.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Kushnir was born in Tambov, central Russia, where his father Mikhail was a pianist and educator, and his mother a music school teacher.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2024

But Tambov Gov. Maxim Yegorov said the plant was working normally, according to Russia’s RBC news outlet.

From Seattle Times Jan. 19, 2024

The curtain that goes down on Robert Lucas in his room at Tambov rises on Robert H. Lucas in New York, with the passage of time marked on him as clearly as on a clock.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval

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