Votkinsk
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian Во́ткинск (Vótkinsk).
Proper noun
[edit]Votkinsk
- An industrial town in Udmurtia, Russia.
- 2022 August 26, Pjotr Sauer, “‘There were hundreds of us’: Navalny ex-staffer tells of being FSB informer”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Sokolov grew up in Votkinsk, an industrial city in the Udmurt Republic, 800 miles east of Moscow. […] His life changed, he said, one day in 2016 when he was summoned to a police station in Votkinsk, where an FSB agent told him he was facing prison for dodging compulsory military service.