Kharkov
- proper noun
- /kɑrˈkɔv/
- As I was saying, six plants... Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad... Kiev, Kharkov, and Minsk, right?
- center of Kharkov
- Soviet prisoners at Kharkov
Examples
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Blanket around his shoulders over in Kharkov?
Fiction book (1993) -
An initiative committee was established in Kharkiv (Kharkov) to revive a Ukrainian national army.
Academic text (1995) -
"I have to go to Kharkov on the five o'clock train.
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"My father," he added proudly, "came from Kharkov to New York when he was five years old and learned English all by himself."
Fiction book (1994) -
May 28th: The Wehrmacht has taken two hundred and fifty thousand Soviet prisoners at Kharkov.
Fiction book (2001) -
In 1937, Lev V. Shubnikov and his group at the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute in Kharkov, following earlier work, had measured those two critical fields in alloys.
Academic text (2003) -
Also all this time Bolshevik troops had been invading from Russia, capturing Kharkov and Alexandrovsk and converging in Bachmak before heading to try and take Kiev.
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I need to book a hotel in Kharkov for my trip to Ukraine next month.
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She grew up in Kharkov before moving to the capital for university.
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During the conference, we visited Kharkov to learn more about its history.
Synonyms
A large city in the northeast of Ukraine with many factories and universities
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kharkov probably comes from an old local name like Kharko, either a person's name or the name of a river, so it originally meant 'Kharko's place'.