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- proper noun A city in
Siberia ,Russia , on the border withChina , the administrative centre ofAmur Oblast .
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Examples
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The woman had been visiting the Chinese town of Heihe and was returning to the Russian town of Blagoveshchensk, which is located on the opposite bank of the Amur River separating the two countries.
National Nine News 2010
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"Blagoveshchensk," said the steward, as he waved his arm in that direction.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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The online profiles linked to his name say he grew up in Blagoveshchensk, a city on the Chinese border in Russia's Far East, finished high school there in 2000 and enrolled that year in Amur State University, located in the same city.
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His parents live in Blagoveshchensk but phone calls to their residence have gone unanswered.
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After a year in the United States, Ms. Kosikhina recalls, he returned for a visit to Blagoveshchensk in 2006.
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Svobodnyi, near Blagoveshchensk To keep them away from curiosity seekers, they were transferred there immediately from the internal prison of the Khabarovsk
FULL downloadable PDF file is available from the DPMO Website 2007
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Khabarovsk Region And however blasphemous this thought may appear to the uninitiated, let people take my word By their horrible fate they were spared the vastness of the GULag's underworld a prison isolation cell with the proud name "Svobodnyi," which is in close proximity to Blagoveshchensk!
FULL downloadable PDF file is available from the DPMO Website 2007
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They had this chopper lined up for the job, only the pilot made some kind of mistake on the way here and spread himself all over this field near Blagoveshchensk.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Russians at Blagoveshchensk, in retaliation for Chinese bombardments along the Amur (July 1415) and in fear of attack by the local Chinese, drove several thousand Chinese civilians to their deaths in the river.
1899, Feb 2001
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Leaving Blagoveshchensk the country continued level near the river, but the mountains gradually approached it and on the south bank they came to the water fifteen or twenty miles above Sakhalin-Oula.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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