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

  • A city of western Russia southeast of Moscow. Founded as a fortress in 1636, it is a manufacturing center and railroad junction.

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  • proper noun A city in Russia, administrative centre of Tambov oblast.

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Examples

  • Spirodonova was a student in Tambov; she was not poor and she suffered no personal discomfort, but she could not bear the misery about her.

    Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

  • In 2003, German prosecutors accused SPAG and some associated firms of laundering “tens of millions of Euros” for the St. Petersburg–based Tambov organized crime group.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • In 2003, German prosecutors accused SPAG and some associated firms of laundering “tens of millions of Euros” for the St. Petersburg–based Tambov organized crime group.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Another, called Ego, is set at the time of the brutal suppression of tens of thousands of peasants in Tambov province in the 1920s.

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 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

  • In 2003, German prosecutors accused SPAG and some associated firms of laundering “tens of millions of Euros” for the St. Petersburg–based Tambov organized crime group.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • In 2003, German prosecutors accused SPAG and some associated firms of laundering “tens of millions of Euros” for the St. Petersburg–based Tambov organized crime group.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Unlike the Kronstadt affair, the Tambov Revolt, sometimes referred to as the Antonovschina, after one of its leaders, Aleksandr Stepanovich Antonov, has largely been passed over, probably because it was out in the provinces, while Kotlin Island was at the front door to Petrograd.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Unlike the Kronstadt affair, the Tambov Revolt, sometimes referred to as the Antonovschina, after one of its leaders, Aleksandr Stepanovich Antonov, has largely been passed over, probably because it was out in the provinces, while Kotlin Island was at the front door to Petrograd.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • In December 1996, Anatoly Ponidelko, then the city's police chief, publicly announced that the Tambov Gang had gained undue influence over Yakovlev's city hall.

    The Capital Of Crime 2008

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