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Vinony

Kirov

proper noun

  1. city in the north of Russia
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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.

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