English Explanatory Dictionary

Kirov

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A transliteration of the Russian surname Киров (Kirov).
name
  1. An oblast of Russia.
  2. A city, the administrative center of Kirov Oblast, Russia.

Word forms

Kirov

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Ки́ров (Kírov). Renamed in 1934, after Sergey Kirov (1886–1934), a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet communist assassinated in 1934.

Synonyms

Vyatka Khlynov
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