Definitions

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

  • A city of western Russia on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Founded in 1095, it is now a manufacturing and industrial center.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun a city in Russia, 196 kilometres south of Moscow, centre of Ryazan oblast.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Ryazan.

Examples

  • He was educated first at the church school in Ryazan and then at the theological seminary there.

    Ivan Pavlov - Biography 1967

  • The Duma refused to investigate the 1999 apartment bombings, and voted to seal all materials concerning the Ryazan incident for seventy-five years.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The central authorities blamed Chechen and Wahhabi militants associated with Basayev and Khattab, but the lack of clear evidence and the strange events in Ryazan—where what looked like a similar bomb was found in an apartment building, having been planted there by FSB agents who then said it was part of a “training exercise”—left many unsure just who was responsible see Chapter 3.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The Duma refused to investigate the 1999 apartment bombings, and voted to seal all materials concerning the Ryazan incident for seventy-five years.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Media reports, citing opposition parties as their sources, said that local administrations in regions including Voronezh, Kemerovo, Tambov, Ryazan and Izhevsk have variously asked public employees to gather signatures for United Russia, instructed them to vote for the party, or offered public employees or pensioners various benefits if they help United Russia achieve a certain percent of the vote.

    Human Rights Watch: Q & A: Russian National Elections in 2011 and 2012 Human Rights Watch 2011

  • A week later, in the city of Ryazan, inhabitants of one apartment block found sacks of white powder in their basement attached to a timing device.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The Duma refused to investigate the 1999 apartment bombings, and voted to seal all materials concerning the Ryazan incident for seventy-five years.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The central authorities blamed Chechen and Wahhabi militants associated with Basayev and Khattab, but the lack of clear evidence and the strange events in Ryazan—where what looked like a similar bomb was found in an apartment building, having been planted there by FSB agents who then said it was part of a “training exercise”—left many unsure just who was responsible see Chapter 3.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The central authorities blamed Chechen and Wahhabi militants associated with Basayev and Khattab, but the lack of clear evidence and the strange events in Ryazan—where what looked like a similar bomb was found in an apartment building, having been planted there by FSB agents who then said it was part of a “training exercise”—left many unsure just who was responsible see Chapter 3.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • A week later, in the city of Ryazan, inhabitants of one apartment block found sacks of white powder in their basement attached to a timing device.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.