Bulganin

[ bool-gah-nin, -gan-in; Russian bool-gah-nyin ]

noun

1. Ni·ko·lai A·le·ksan·dro·vich [nik-, uh, -, lahy, al-ik-, san, -dr, uh, -vich, -, sahn, -, nyi-kuh-, lahy, uh-lyi-, ksahn, -d, r, uh, -vyich], 1895–1975, Soviet political leader: premier 1955–58.

Bulganin

/ bulˈɡanin /

noun

1. BulganinNikolai Aleksandrovich18951975MRussianPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: military leader Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)

Example Sentences

A summit to de-escalate Cold War tensions was planned the following month in Geneva with President Dwight Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and the prime ministers of Great Britain and France.

From Seattle Times

The amount of ink was attributable to the fact that Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin paid a surprise visit to a garden party held in Moscow for the American chess team.

From Literature

After Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin wrote a letter criticizing the Eisenhower administration for its approach to the issue, some commentators in the press somehow used that to argue that Stevenson had emboldened America's enemies.

From Salon

When Maidanek, the first of the Nazi concentration camps liberated by the Soviets, was taken over in July 1944, Lieutenant General Nikolai Bulganin insisted that journalists be brought in.

From New York Times

Nikolai Bulganin and the other Russians nodded in predictable agreement.

From Time