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Zelenograd

[ zyi-lyi-nuh-graht; English zuh-lee-nuh-grad ]

noun

  1. a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Moscow.


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To find sea and sand, head to the villages of Zelenograd or Svetlogorsk, or to the Curonian Spit, a long sandbank which links the Kaliningrad region to Lithuania, with water on both sides.

Irina Khoroshko, from Zelenograd near Moscow, had learned her times tables by the age of five.

From BBC

If he has a few hours to spare, Snowden might ask his handlers to drive him to Zelenograd, a city on the outskirts of Moscow that during the Cold War was the secret heart of Soviet computer R&D. In 1962, Alfred Sarant and Joel Barr, two members of the Rosenberg ring who had evaded the FBI and made it to safety behind the Iron Curtain, persuaded Khrushchev to build Zelenograd as the USSR’s version of Silicon Valley.

“Many mistakes were made during the Soviet period which had to be corrected, but that did not mean that the great country had to be destroyed,” said Aleksandr Golikov, 34, a teacher from Zelenograd, outside Moscow.

A police sweep of the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd then failed to net any suspects.

From Time

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