Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast Kazakhstan on the Irtysh River southeast of Omsk, Russia. Founded as a fortress in 1718, it is a port and processing center.
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Examples
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Other major cities include Shymkent, Semey, Aqtöbe, and Öskemen. continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
Kazakhstan The World Factbook 2008
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Our friend Marianne died a year after we returned from Kazakhstan, but she left behind a library that she had developed with teachers in a school in Semey.
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Back in Semey, there will also be celebrations around the town's chilling monument to the victims of testing, a giant stone mushroom cloud.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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There is certainly plenty of money around: in contrast to the depressing Soviet-era streets of Semey, Astana, the new Kazakh capital, has just risen out of the steppe, much of it designed by Norman Foster.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I couldn't get any local-government people in Atyrau to talk to me, and when I emailed a central government official about development there, he said, "I am sure the residents want more, they always do," and added that if they really wanted to see underdevelopment, "they simply need to go to, say, Ust Kamenogorsk or Semey."
Slate Magazine Joshua Kucera 2011
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Dr Kazbek Abasalikov, the director of the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Semey, is more cautious.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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She shows us various pickled foetuses, including a "Cyclops" child with one eye and Siamese twins, collected from around Semey since 1953.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In the Semey State Children's Home, Dina Batyrova snuffles and squeaks as she tries to breathe.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Akmaral Musakhanova, the head of research at the Semey University Medical Centre, is sure there is a link.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Now the once-secret data is being used for a good cause - to show the effects of radiation sickness by studying DNA samples of people around Semey over three generations.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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