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

Dvornikov’s dismissal may been linked to the destruction of the 58th Combined Arms Army, normally stationed in the southern Vladikavkaz, which was lauded as one the most combat-ready Russian armies and key to the invasion of Georgia in 2008, BBC’s Russian service reported.

From Washington Post

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

At a military cemetery in Vladikavkaz, capital of the Russian republic of North Ossetia on Tuesday a cemetery assistant and florist, Olga Gryaznova, said:

From Reuters

“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

Mr. Sokhiev, who was born in 1977 in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, near the border with Georgia, and was the principal conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin until 2016, is as of now still scheduled to appear with the New York Philharmonic starting on March 31.

From New York Times