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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Russia in the northern Caucasus south of Rostov. Founded by Cossacks on orders from Catherine the Great in 1794, it is now an industrial center.
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- proper noun A city, administrative centre of Krasnodar
krai (unofficially calledKuban ) ofRussia , calledYekaterinodar before December 1920.
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Getty Images Tourists ride horses near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, a city situated in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
World Travelers 2010
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Already, radical Islamic cells are reportedly being formed outside the North Caucasus in regions such as Krasnodar, Staropol and Rostov.
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Rosneft Chief Executive Eduard Khudainatov told reporters at the state-owned company's annual meeting in the southern Russian town of Krasnodar that Chevron had pulled out of the deal to jointly explore for oil in the Shatsky Ridge, a deepwater region of the Black Sea thought to contain six billion barrels of oil.
Chevron Leaves Rosneft Project Guy Chazan 2011
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Now that S7 is in the Oneworld Alliance, BA is putting its code on the Russian airline's flights between Moscow and Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Ufa.
Iberia Adds Routes to Brazil; Visit Saudi on a Budget Jeff Mills 2011
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Rosneft Chief Executive Eduard Khudainatov told reporters at the state-owned company's annual meeting in the southern Russian town of Krasnodar that Chevron had pulled out of the deal to jointly explore for oil in the Shatsky Ridge, a deepwater region of the Black Sea thought to contain six billion barrels of oil.
Chevron Leaves Rosneft Project Guy Chazan 2011
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Old habits die hard, it seems, for Kuban Krasnodar, a club formed as Krasnodar Dynamo by KGB forerunner the NKVD in 1928.
Men in suits try to do a deal with the Boys of South Africa 2011
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Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Getty Images Opposition activists also protested in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.
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Russian lender Sberbank will invest $120 million in the venture that will manage airports in the cities of Sochi, Krasnodar, Gelendzhik and Anapa, Gref said.
Russian Billionaire Leads Airport Joint Venture Nadia Popova 2011
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Reuters Workers attach an election poster of Vladimir Putin appealing for votes for the United Russia party onto an office building in the southern city of Krasnodar on Thursday.
Putin's Party Faces Losses in Elections Alan Cullison 2011
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In addition, the name of Krasnodar, the Russian city where Ms. Netrebko grew up, was misspelled as Krasnador.
Amplifications 2010
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