Frunze

[ froon-zuh; Russian froon-zyuh ]

noun

1. a former name (1926–91) of Bishkek.

Frunze

/ ˈfrunzɪ /

noun

1. the former name (until 1991) of Bishkek

Example Sentences

Early in 1939, she began a two-year course at the M. V. Frunze Military Academy.

From Literature

Four years later, while a student at the Frunze Military Academy, the general was given a suspended sentence for illegally selling a pistol to a classmate.

From BBC

Ion Frunze, from Corby, was prosecuted in January at Leicester Magistrates' Court for drink driving, driving without due care and attention, driving without a licence and having no insurance.

From BBC

Two years later, the Communists, under the leadership of Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, were at the doors of these vassal kingdoms, driving their khans and emirs into exile.

From New York Times

"Mikhail Frunze may have been a Red commander, but at least he was a real person who doesn't get 'overgrown with details'," one supporter wrote to Radio Azattyk.

From BBC