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Kharkov

Kharkov

1 7.5
A city in the northeast of Ukraine that used to be the country's capital
  • proper noun
  • /kɑrˈkɔv/
: Járkov
  • As I was saying, six plants... Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad... Kiev, Kharkov, and Minsk, right?
  • center of Kharkov
  • Soviet prisoners at Kharkov

Examples

  • 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.

  • "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.

  • I need to book a hotel in Kharkov for my trip to Ukraine next month.

  • She grew up in Kharkov before moving to the capital for university.

  • During the conference, we visited Kharkov to learn more about its history.

Synonyms

Kharkiv
vsKharkov
1 6.6

A large city in the northeast of Ukraine with many factories and universities

has identical meaning but is the older alternative spelling

Surface Forms

Kharkov main

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'.