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- alternativeAlternative form of Pyotr.
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 20151 more example
Petr Aven, president of Alfa, Russia's biggest and most successful private bank, and a key business supporter of the newly elected president, said that Mr Putin should model his regime on that of Augusto Pinochet of Chile, combining Reaganomics with dictatorial controls.
2000 March 30, Ian Traynor, “[Vladimir] Putin urged to apply the Pinochet stick”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2013
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Petr. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Petr
“Petr.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Petr. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Petr,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Petr.
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