Simbirsk


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Sim·birsk

 (sĭm-bîrsk′, syĭm-)
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Simbirsk

(Russian simˈbirsk)
n
(Placename) the former name (until 1924) of Ulyanovsk
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Ul•ya•novsk

(ulˈyɑ nɔfsk, -nɒfsk, -nəfsk)

n.
a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga: birthplace of Lenin. 625,000. Formerly, Simbirsk.
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Some went to an ammunition plant in Simbirsk. The city was renamed Ulyanovsk in 1924 after Vladimir Ulyanov (better known by the pseudonym "Lenin") who was born there.
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When Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin, was 21, famine hit Russia's Volga region, near the Ulyanovs' hometown of Simbirsk. Vladimir's sister raised money for the relief effort and visited the sick.
Ulyanovsk (formerly known as Simbirsk but which changed its name upon Lenin's death in 1924, in honour of his pre-revolutionary name, Ulyanov) has ambitions to establish direct flights next year to Shaoshan, the birthplace of Mao Zedong, the founder of modern-day communist China.
Petersburg, and Lenin's hometown, the provincial city of Ulianovsk (formerly Simbirsk), she divides her book into chapters on the Soviet and post-Soviet gender orders, lesbian relationships in late Soviet Russia, the home, public space, and the creation of queer space.
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