CHELYABINSK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chelyabinsk mean? 

• CHELYABINSK (noun)
  The noun CHELYABINSK has 1 sense:

1. a city in the Asian part of Russia

  Familiarity information: CHELYABINSK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHELYABINSK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in the Asian part of Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Chelyabinsk" is a part of...):

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)

 Context examples 

The notable exception was the Chelyabinsk event which was the largest asteroid to hit Earth in this period.

(New Map Shows Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts, Provides Clues on Larger Asteroid Population, NASA)

This series of events can be likened to the meteor blast that shattered windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia, last year.

(NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater, NASA)

The group of four geologists from Ural Federal University set out for the Lut desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, in search of evidence of meteorites - similar to the one that crashed to earth in an impressive fireball over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk in 2013.

(Huge Haul of Extraterrestrial Material Recovered from Iranian Desert, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)