Meanings
proper noun
- A town and administrative center of Novouzensky district, Saratov Oblast, Russia.
After their father died and their mother fell into drink, Petr Khokhlov and his brother, Sergey, were sent to an orphanage in Novouzensk, a small, dusty town of low-slung Soviet-era apartment blocks on Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
2015 January 7, Joshua Yaffa, “The Search for Petr Khokhlov”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2015
Origin
Transliteration of Russian Новоузе́нск (Novouzénsk).
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APA
Novouzensk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Novouzensk
MLA
“Novouzensk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Novouzensk. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Novouzensk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Novouzensk.
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