Etymology

Norilsk

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Today it means: A city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, second largest city north of the Arctic Circle. Full definition →

Russian Нори́льск
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The story

  1. Russian · borrowed fromНори́льск
  2. English todayNorilsk

From Russian Нори́льск (Norílʹsk).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.