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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of south-central Russia on the Irtysh River. On the Trans-Siberian Railroad, it is a major river port and transportation hub. The city was founded in 1716.

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  • proper noun Seventh largest city in Russia, centre of Omsk oblast.

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  • noun a city in the Asian part of Russia

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  • The Czech-born Jagr, 36, a right wing who has topped rosters for the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Washington Capitals, and the New York Rangers since 1990, is now playing for Avangard Omsk, of the new Continental Hockey League, in Omsk, Siberia.

    Exile 2008

  • The Czech-born Jagr, 36, a right wing who has topped rosters for the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Washington Capitals, and the New York Rangers since 1990, is now playing for Avangard Omsk, of the new Continental Hockey League, in Omsk, Siberia.

    Exile 2008

  • Jagr, wearing number 68 to commemorate the Prague Spring, waits to play in Omsk. Image credit: Utkin Igor/Itar-Tass Photo/Corbis

    Exile 2008

  • Jagr, wearing number 68 to commemorate the Prague Spring, waits to play in Omsk. Image credit: Utkin Igor/Itar-Tass Photo/Corbis

    Exile 2008

  • Watch them smile to themselves as they refute objections and expound implications of Stalin's monetary policy on rural electrification in Omsk. If there are two of them in the car, you just might do a Gemini and climb out the window to pull off a carjacking.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Watch them smile to themselves as they refute objections and expound implications of Stalin's monetary policy on rural electrification in Omsk. If there are two of them in the car, you just might do a Gemini and climb out the window to pull off a carjacking.

    Astrology and Traffic Tie-ups 2007

  • Ultimately, he said it was a matter of stability, that he wanted a three-year contract and a place to call home, even if that means going to an outpost like Omsk, which is far more a part of Siberia than continental Europe.

    Archive 2008-07-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • Nine-time NHL All-Star Jaromir Jagr shocked the hockey world in 2008 when he joined Avangard Omsk at age 36, before rejoining the NHL this summer.

    Hockey Stars Killed in Russian Crash Gregory L. White 2011

  • The firebrand championing the indigenous Komi people was none other than Yury Spiridonov, an ethnically Russian oil miner and party worker, born in Omsk and educated in Sverdlovsk, who had once gotten into trouble for snapping at someone who tried to address him in Komi: “Speak in a way that can be understood.”

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Before returning to the NHL this season with the Philadelphia Flyers, Jagr had played three years for Avangard Omsk, a franchise in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League.

    Why Didn't New York Keep Jagr? Mike Sielski 2011

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