Michurinsk

[ mi-choor-insk; Russian myi-chyoo-ryinsk ]

noun

1. a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.

Example Sentences

The week before our arrival in Tambov, the drivers on two trolleybus lines had gone on strike, protesting the dreadful condition of the roads Tambovskaya Pravda, the local Communist Party daily, devoted the front page to a regional party committee meeting, examining the fate of those repressed under Stalin Elections had been held for a new factory director In the town of Michurinsk, 40 miles to the northwest, an ecology rally had been organized, drawing more than 1,000 people.

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Inefficiency is so commonplace in the Soviet Union that we were piqued by tales of a dramatic transformation under way at the Lenin Factory in Michurinsk.

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Lunch at the Michurinsk factory proved to be one of those seemingly commonplace occurrences that actually signifies a great deal about perestroika.

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Leaving the lunchroom, I understood that the management at the Michurinsk factory could no longer afford to live differently from everyone else.

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Last week one of Soviet Russia's unpredictable trains clacked out of Moscow, headed southeast for Michurinsk, 300 miles away.

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