Moskva

Meanings

proper noun

A river in Russia, a tributary of the Oka.
Follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change.
1991, Klaus Meine, “Wind of Change”, in Crazy World, performed by Scorpions
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The Great, Little and White Russians still occupy their original sites about the Moskva, the Dnieper and the Pripet, respectively numbering some 56,000,000, 22,000,000, and 6,000,000, the Great Russians predominating and mingling with the other races all over Europasia.
1928, “an English Europasian”, “The Races”, in Russia in Resurrection: A Summary of the Views and of the Aims of a New Party in Russia, London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., page 18
alternativeAlternative form of Moscow: a federal city, a federal subject, the capital and largest city of Russia.
And I didn't come all the way from Moskva just for the government.
2013, Charles Lee Jackson II, The Emperor’s Gambit (The Emperor’s Secret Files), →ISBN
alternativeAlternative form of Moscow: an oblast and federal subject of Russia surrounding the city, which itself is not part of the oblast; in full, Moscow Oblast.

Transliteration of Russian Москва́ (Moskvá). Doublet of Moscow.

Chinese Mandarin 莫斯科河

Hungarian Moszkva

Portuguese Moscovo

Russian Москва́

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