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Kursk

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Kursk  (krsk)
A city of western Russia south-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 1095, it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1240 and rebuilt as a fortress in 1586. Population: 406,000.
Kursk (Russian) [kursk]
n
(Placename) a city in W Russia: industrial centre of an agricultural region: scene of a major Soviet victory (1943). Pop.: 445 400 (1999 est.)
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Noun1.Kursk - a city of southwestern Russia
Russian Federation, Russia - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state


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Sergey Ivanovitch and Katavasov had only just reached the station of the Kursk line, which was particularly busy and full of people that day, when, looking round for the groom who was following with their things, they saw a party of volunteers driving up in four cabs.
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He walked shyly and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at Schon Grabern- and he would have found that easier.
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