Komsomolsk

[ kom-suh-mawlsk; Russian kuhm-suh-mawlsk ]

noun

1. a city in the E Russian Federation in Asia, on the Amur River.

Komsomolsk

/ kəmsaˈmɔljsk /

noun

1. an industrial city in W Russia, on the Amur River: built by members of the Komsomol (Communist youth league) in 1932. Pop: 275 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

He was whisked off to the Komsomolsk aviation plant, named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space.

From Reuters

Related: Why Ukraine’s internally displaced have given up hope of returning home She decided to leave Komsomolsk last August, after her brother was kidnapped by the far-right Azov volunteer battalion.

From The Guardian

Kurlayeva, 32, fled to Magadan last summer from her hometown of Komsomolsk, near Donetsk in east Ukraine.

From The Guardian

On a recent day, Nesterenko, 47, wiped away tears as she stood next to the crater left by the artillery shell that ripped through the roof of her house on the corner of Komsomolsk and Transport streets.

From Los Angeles Times

All these, from 1918 to 1953, flowed through the ports and channels of the Gulag Archipelago, the Soviet penal state-within-a-state whose myriad prisons, interrogation centers and slave-labor camps stretched from Leningrad to Komsomolsk and variously engulfed some 60 million souls.

From Time Magazine Archive