Ulyanovsk

[ ool-yah-nawfsk, -nofsk; Russian oo-lyah-nuhfsk ]

noun

1. a city in the western Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.

Ulyanovsk

/ uljˈjanəfsk /

noun

1. a city in W central Russia on the River Volga: birthplace of Lenin (V. I. Ulyanov), after whom it was renamed in 1924. Pop: 639 000 (2005 est) Former name:Simbirsk

Example Sentences

Evgeny Burdin, a historian in the Volga town of Ulyanovsk, some 900 miles downstream from Dubna, read to me from one of the reports presented at the meeting.

From MIT Technology Review