Vladikavkaz

American  

[vlad-i-kahf-kahz, vluh-dyi-kuhf-kahs] / ˌvlæd ɪ kɑfˈkɑz, vlə dyɪ kʌfˈkɑs /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of North Ossetia, in southern Russia.

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Vladikavkaz British  

/ vlədikafˈkas /

noun

1. Former names: Dzaudzhikau.   Ordzhonikidze.  a city in S Russia, capital of the North Ossetian Republic on the N slopes of the Caucasus. Pop: 318 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Once mobilisation was announced, Karcheva cancelled her tour group and instead put on a bus across the border from the Russian city of Vladikavkaz for those seeking to escape urgently.

From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2022

“The only people who know what’s really happening there are the guys who are fighting there,” she said in a phone interview from the city of Vladikavkaz.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022

That day Alexey Soldatov, head of the Kurchatov office, was far out of town, in Vladikavkaz in the North Caucasus.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2016

By then, Dzagoev had already spent four years training with Alania Vladikavkaz, apparently encouraged in his football by his mother, who, he claims, can do 10 keepie-ups standing on one leg.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2012

F. Loewinson-Lessing has an account of the geology of the district along the military road from Vladikavkaz to Tiflis in the Guide des Excursions du VIIe Congr�s g�ol. internat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various