Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Russia northeast of Moscow. It has long been a textile-producing center.
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- proper noun A city in
Russia , administrative centre of Ivanovooblast .
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Examples
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After the four hundred grams of war-rationed bread in Ivanovo, Leningrad seemed a gastronomic heaven.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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Three months after graduation, my mother was the chief and only physician of a fifteen-bed rural hospital thirty kilometers from Ivanovo, near a factory that produced bricks of peat mined from the nearby underground swamps.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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The muted, cobweb feeling of being empty of protest, something my mother must have felt when she made her monthly visits to the secret Ivanovo apartment.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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She came from the provincial town of Ivanovo in central Russia, where chickens lived in the kitchen and a pig squatted under the stairs, where streets were unpaved and houses made from wood.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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When they lived in Ivanovo, before I was born, Marina had spent hours standing in the corner under the radio, constantly punished for riding astride the bar in the back of a streetcar.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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My grandmother was the daughter of a factory owner in the textile town of Ivanovo, who employed most of the men in the village.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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Only months earlier, when she was living in the Ivanovo apartment with her parents, her siblings, and her uncle, there had been a knock on the door in the middle of the night.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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Mikhail Men, governor of the Ivanovo region, chimed in that Mr. Belykh would pick up lots of new Twitter followers from the controversy.
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It is a small town on the banks of the Volga, a hundred kilometers from Ivanovo, where she was born.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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In her mind, the scene of Uncle Volya being led away into the black voronok for telling a joke wrestled for a few minutes with the happy image of the Ivanovo citizens saved from starvation by a telegram.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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