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- proper noun A port city on the
Sea of Okhotsk inRussia , administrative centre of Magadanoblast .
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Magadan is a city in far eastern Russia with a population of 100,000, a seaport, and a major airport.
Waldo Jaquith - The human geography of far eastern Russia. 2007
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Half of them, we learn, were actually sent to Soviet Far East ports, such as Magadan, where they were used to send new slave laborers to the arctic Kolyma camp.
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Magadan, Bernard Gilkey (1996), Todd Hundley (1997), John Olerud (1998) and Beltran (2006) are the other top 10 hitters who wore blue and orange.
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Nierka, choreographed by the Nederlands Dans Theatre-based Fernando Hernando Magadan, creates drama out of the chemistry between its constituent elements – dance, lighting and music – and in so doing pays homage to Wassily Kandinsky's theory of synaesthesia and the theatrical vision of Antonin Artaud and Edward Gordon Craig.
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The last time two Mets ranked in the top 10 in OPS for a full season was back in 1990, when Darryl Strawberry and Dave Magadan accomplished the feat.
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The last time two Mets ranked in the top 10 in OPS for a full season was back in 1990, when Darryl Strawberry and Dave Magadan accomplished the feat.
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Magadan, Bernard Gilkey (1996), Todd Hundley (1997), John Olerud (1998) and Beltran (2006) are the other top 10 hitters who wore blue and orange.
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They dragged his frozen bones to Magadan where he toiled in the ruined mines.
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Yet children played and laughed in Magadan as they do everywhere in the world.
Alastair Humphreys: For Russia With a Smile Alastair Humphreys 2010
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There were also a few shops in Magadan different from the basic market stalls or the old-style Soviet department stores that sold everything but stocked nothing.
Alastair Humphreys: For Russia With a Smile Alastair Humphreys 2010
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