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Kirov

(kē′rôf′)

city in NC European Russia: pop. 464,000

See Kirov in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A city of west-central Russia east-northeast of Moscow. Founded c. 1174, it became the center of a medieval principality that was conquered by Ivan III in 1489. Population: 449,000.

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