Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southwest Russia south of Yekaterinburg. Founded in 1736 as a Russian frontier outpost, it is a major metallurgical and industrial center.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a city in the Asian part of Russia.

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  • proper noun A large city in Russia, administrative centre of Chelyabinsk oblast near the Ural mountains.

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  • noun a city in the Asian part of Russia

Etymologies

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From Russian Челябинск (Čeljábinsk)

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Examples

  • Take, for example, the closed city of Ozersk, a community of 85,000 people, whose existence was so hushed under the Soviets that it was not allowed a proper name, and was referred to only by its post office box numbers — first No. 40, then No. 65 — in Chelyabinsk, an open city forty-four miles away.

    How to Get a Nuclear Bomb 2006

  • Take, for example, the closed city of Ozersk, a community of 85,000 people, whose existence was so hushed under the Soviets that it was not allowed a proper name, and was referred to only by its post office box numbers — first No. 40, then No. 65 — in Chelyabinsk, an open city forty-four miles away.

    How to Get a Nuclear Bomb 2006

  • In Chelyabinsk, frustrated shoppers outside a wine store smashed bus windows and stormed a district council building.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Now that S7 is in the Oneworld Alliance, BA is putting its code on the Russian airline's flights between Moscow and Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Ufa.

    Iberia Adds Routes to Brazil; Visit Saudi on a Budget Jeff Mills 2011

  • In Chelyabinsk, frustrated shoppers outside a wine store smashed bus windows and stormed a district council building.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Lidia Yamchuk and Hanif Sharimardanov in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk which I visited immediately after the fall of communism demonstrated their use of miso soup broth when served to patients suffering from various forms of leukemia.

    William Spear: Radiation Emergency Measures You Can Take Now William Spear 2011

  • A day earlier, Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant, known as ChelPipe, pulled its IPO, and coking coal company Koks Group did the same a week ago.

    VTB Sale Raises $3.3 Billion William Mauldin 2011

  • Lidia Yamchuk and Hanif Sharimardanov in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk which I visited immediately after the fall of communism demonstrated their use of miso soup broth when served to patients suffering from various forms of leukemia.

    William Spear: Radiation Emergency Measures You Can Take Now William Spear 2011

  • That explains, to some degree, how Steve Maxwell, an Australian, can be boxing next week at the Traktor Sport Palace in Chelyabinsk, Russia, for the WBC Asian Boxing Council welterweight title against Anton "The Pick Hammer" Novikov of Russia.

    Training for a Heavyweight Bout? Better Take a Geography Lesson Russell Adams 2011

  • Lidia Yamchuk and Hanif Sharimardanov in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk which I visited immediately after the fall of communism demonstrated their use of miso soup broth when served to patients suffering from various forms of leukemia.

    William Spear: Radiation Emergency Measures You Can Take Now William Spear 2011

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