Kirov

proper noun

city in the north of Russia

Wiktionary

name

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

An oblast of Russia.
A city, the administrative center of Kirov Oblast, Russia.