Yelets

or E·lets

[ yuh-lets; Russian yi-lyets ]

noun

1. a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.

Example Sentences

In Lipetsk Oblast, the team visited half a dozen towns in as many days, where they sought out both the well-known – the sky-blue, golden-domed cathedral in Zadonsk – and the unknown – in Chaplygin, a cheese-making workshop; in Yelets, a museum in the house of the Soviet composer Tikhon Khrennikov; in the middle of nowhere, a small falcon reserve.

From The Guardian

In the small town of Yelets we knocked on the door of a monastery and were invited in to join a group of Russian Orthodox priests celebrating Christmas.

From New York Times

Japan Tobacco has a 36 percent share of the Russian market and runs factories in St Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad Region and Yelets.

From Reuters

Japan Tobacco has a 36 percent share of the Russian market and runs factories in St Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad Region and Yelets.

From Reuters

Castles and villages were burned; the nobles who did not escape were cut to pieces, and among others old Pan Yelets, a former servant and friend of the Vishnyevetskis.

From Project Gutenberg