Salekhard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town, the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalia), Russia, located on the Arctic Circle and the Ob Region.

Word forms

Salekhard

Etymology

From Russian Салеха́рд (Salexárd), from Tundra Nenets Саляʼ харад (Salyah xarad°, literally “house on a peninsula”).

Synonyms

Obdorsk (1595-1933) Polnovat-Vozh

Related words

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