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smolensk

/smoʊˈlɛnsk/

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What does smolensk mean?

proper noun

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

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/smoʊˈlɛnsk/

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He therefore led his main body against that of the Russians, which fell back before him, trudged past the camp at Drissa, and did not stop until it reached Smolensk.
Carl von ClausewitzOn WarTranslated by J. J. (James John) GrahamProject Gutenberg ebook #1946
It was arranged that they should leave the following spring, and meantime Jurgis sold himself to a contractor for a certain time, and tramped nearly four hundred miles from home with a gang of men to work upon a railroad in Smolensk.
Upton SinclairThe JungleProject Gutenberg ebook #140