Smolensk
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- proper noun
- This statement was issued in response to persistent questions from journalists regarding meetings and negotiations that supposedly took place between Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, the head of the MP DECR.
- Smolensk, a major city
- Russian city of Smolensk
- actor from Smolensk
Examples
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People had been talking about Katyn since April of 1943, when the Germans found the graves near Smolensk.
Fiction book (1991) -
Also in 2005, he graduated from the Smolensk Theological Seminary, and in 2008 from the Moscow Theological Academy, receiving a theology doctorate in 2010.
Academic text (2011) -
My friend, the actor from Smolensk, took the task to heart.
Fiction book (2002) -
For my friend, the actor from Smolensk, it could have meant being expelled from the country.
Fiction book (2002) -
Take it back to the jeweller's in Smolensk.
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A town called Smolensk.
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Russia emerged victorious, reclaiming Smolensk and taking control of eastern Ukraine.
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"Clauzon handed me a reprint of an article from a Smolensk newspaper."
Fiction book (2001) -
We missed Kiev, but had several days in Smolensk, idling in the Intourist hotel, waiting for the return express to Moscow.
Academic text (1993) -
During World War II, fierce battles were fought for control of Smolensk, a city of strategic importance in western Russia.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Smolensk comes from an old Slavic word smola meaning 'tar' or 'resin', plus the place ending -ensk, so the name originally meant 'the place of tar'.