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Kaliningrad

Noun CEFR C1
kəˈliːnɪnɡrad

Definitions

  1. An oblast or federal subject in Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
  2. A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg.

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Examples

“As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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