Norilsk
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Russian Нори́льск (Norílʹsk).
Proper noun
Norilsk
- A city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, second largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
- 1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 363:
- In the area of the far north, to the east of the Urals, there seem to have been a number of camps of particularly rigorous regime, which are described as of ‘complete isolation’. Only a few rumours about them have emerged, as no one seems in any circumstances to have been released. The death rate is said to have been very high. Norilsk was the centre of a group of camps more deadly than Kolyma.
Translations
city
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Нори́льск (Norílʹsk).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Norilsk f
- Norilsk (a city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia)
- Holonym: kraï de Krasnoïarsk
Portuguese
Etymology
From Russian Нори́льск (Norílʹsk).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Norilsk f
- Norilsk (a city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia)