Miass

[ mee-ahs; Russian myi-ahs ]

noun

1. a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.

Example Sentences

"Although miassite is a mineral that was discovered near the Miass River in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia," said Canfield, "it is a rare one that generally does not grow as well-formed crystals."

From Science Daily

The Americans who founded Sea Launch Investors in 1992 believed that their project could help prevent the poaching of Russian weapons experts by terrorists and rogue states, at least from the community of rocket scientists at the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau, the premier Soviet manufacturer of submarine-launched ballistic missiles headquartered in Miass, a small city in Russia’s southern Ural mountains.

From Washington Post

The Siberian railway starts at Cheliabinsk, just across the Ural Mountains, which it reaches through Samara on the Volga from the European side, coming over the boundary hills through Ufa, Miass and Zlatoust.

From Project Gutenberg