Khanka

[ kang-kuh, kahng- ]

noun

1. Lake, a lake in far SE Russia and NE China, N of Vladivostok. 1,700 sq. mi. (4,400 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Deep in the countryside in the far-flung east of Russia, it sits on the edge of the vast Lake Khanka, 200km north of Vladivostok.

From BBC

"My husband is from Vladivostok but he prefers only Kamen-Rybolov. He didn't want to leave his Vladivostok but when he came here and he saw Lake Khanka he said, 'I stay here. I like it!'"

From BBC

It's a beautiful wooded area by the shore of Lake Khanka, with a glade that opens out to a small sandy beach.

From BBC

Last year 11 patients died at Khanka psychiatric hospital, north of Cairo, because of poor ventilation during a heatwave.

From Economist

As typically happens in Russia, Pavlova began as a teenager shooting a substance called khanka, a tar-like opiate cooked from poppy bulbs, then graduated to heroin and, at the age of 27, switched finally to krokodil, because it has roughly the same effect as heroin but is at least three times cheaper and extremely easy to make.

From Time