Kamenev

[ kah-muh-nef; Russian kah-myi-nyif ]

noun

1. Lev Borisovich [lev, baw-, ree, -s, uh, -vich, lyef, b, uh, -, ryee, -s, uh, -vyich], Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld, 1883–1936, Soviet Communist and government leader: executed during Stalinist purge.

Example Sentences

Demko had the crowd on its feet cheering when he stopped MacKinnon on a breakaway, then managed to get his heel on Vladislav Kamenev’s shot on the rebound.

From Washington Times

Kamenev crashed into Demko, but the puck stayed out of the net.

From Washington Times

Vladislav Kamenev dropped the puck for Compher high in the right circle, and he sent the puck just under the crossbar.

From Washington Times

Vladislav Kamenev dropped the puck for Compher high in the right circle, and he sent the puck just under the crossbar.

From Seattle Times

At the conclusion of the trial of two veteran Party leaders, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, the state prosecutor general, Andrey Vyshinsky, denounced the defendants with florid Stalinist rhetoric: “These mad dogs of capitalism tried to tear limb from limb the best of the best of our Soviet land. . . . I demand that these dogs gone mad should be shot—every one of them!”

From The New Yorker