Simbirsk

/ simˈbirsk /

noun

1. the former name (until 1924) of Ulyanovsk

Example Sentences

His father was inspector of schools for Simbirsk province, a bureaucratic job of the first rank, entitling him to be addressed as “Your Excellency.”

From Literature

At last, some Bagroff serfs, who had been transferred from the Government of Simbirsk to Parashino together with the serfs of the Baktéyeff family, came to visit their relations at New Bagrovo and told terrible stories of their master.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a constant succession of visitors at Choorassovo, either country neighbours, of whom there were a good many, or people from Simbirsk; they ate and drank, took walks and played cards, sang and talked, and were generally noisy and merry.

From Project Gutenberg

Kurolyessoff was little known in the Government of Simbirsk.

From Project Gutenberg

The soil, though good, was not as productive as that in Simbirsk, but there was a considerable quantity of wood, not only firewood, but timber for building.

From Project Gutenberg