Kirov definition
A city of west-central Russia east-northeast of Moscow. Founded as an independent republic in the 1100s, it was annexed by Ivan III in 1489.
(place) City in NC European Russia.
proper name
A Russian surname.
pronoun
Origin of kirov
- Renamed in 1934, after Sergey Kirov (1886–1934), a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet communist assassinated in 1934.
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