Definitions

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

  • A city of south-central Russia southeast of Novosibirsk. Founded by Cossacks in 1617, it was developed as an iron and steel center in the 1930s.

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  • proper noun A city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

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Examples

  • When a huge gold-plated statue of a sausage was unveiled in the small Russian town of Novokuznetsk, it seemed final proof the world had gone crazy about this most precious of metals.

    The bulls head the global stampede for gold bullion - but will it last? Richard Wachman 2010

  • That night we traveled on a train from Novokuznetsk to Novosibirsk where Rose and Piper and little Sean had lived as missionaries and humanitarian aid workers.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • That night we traveled on a train from Novokuznetsk to Novosibirsk where Rose and Piper and little Sean had lived as missionaries and humanitarian aid workers.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • That night we traveled on a train from Novokuznetsk to Novosibirsk where Rose and Piper and little Sean had lived as missionaries and humanitarian aid workers.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • That night we traveled on a train from Novokuznetsk to Novosibirsk where Rose and Piper and little Sean had lived as missionaries and humanitarian aid workers.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • Orlov was able to start his professional career by joining the Bears this past weekend after his KHL team, Metallurg Novokuznetsk, failed to qualify for the playoffs.

    Hershey signs Dmitri Orlov to a pro tryout contract 2011

  • Authorized UN datatrace reveals that signal's origin to be the Commandant's palace in Novokuznetsk, Siberia.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • The rioting hasn't been bad in Novokuznetsk, or so they assure Klieg, but that's just compared to what it is everywhere else.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • Influence needs to be exerted toward getting Klieg out of jail in Novokuznetsk; it's pretty obvious to everyone that he was Hardshaw and Rivera's inside man and tipped them off to everything as it broke.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • He realizes now that he has missed a lot of the sleazier corners, and he is beginning to hope that they won't come any sleazier than Novokuznetsk, the capital of the Siberian Republic.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

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