Ulyanovsk

[ool-yah-nawfsk, -nofsk, oo-lyah-nuhfsk]

noun

1. a city in the western Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.

Ulyanovsk

/ uljˈjanəfsk /

noun

1. Former name:: Simbirsk. a city in W central Russia on the River Volga: birthplace of Lenin (V. I. Ulyanov), after whom it was renamed in 1924. Pop: 639 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Mr. Bout, 56, is standing in elections Sunday as a candidate for the regional assembly in Ulyanovsk, a territory of 1.3 million people about 450 miles east of Moscow that was Lenin’s birthplace.

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The health department of Ulyanovsk region, where the first cases were reported, said 20 people had died there after drinking the cider, branded as "Mister Cider".

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Zinaida Yevmenkova, 82, of Ulyanovsk, a city on the Volga River, did spend her last rubles — donating 300,000, or more than $4,000 — to buy a small quadcopter drone for the Russian military, the Giving Kindness charity reported.

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"We won't be weakened, divided or exterminated," said Ulyanovsk governor Alexei Russkikh.

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"According to preliminary data, the driver of a heavy goods vehicle drove into oncoming traffic and collided with a minibus," the Ulyanovsk region's interior ministry said in a statement.

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