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Kursk
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en ru Курск, referring to the Kur River.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɜɹsk/, /ˈkʊəɹsk/ emulating Russian
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kursk.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en A <<city>> in <<obl/Kursk Oblast>>, the <<administrative centre>> of <<raion/Kursky>> and Kursk Oblast, <<federal district/Central Federal District>>, <<c/Russia>>, first mentioned in 1032, scene in 1943 of the largest battle in human history.
en magnetic anomaly r/Chernozemye c/Russia first discovered in 1773, the largest magnetic anomaly on Earth.
en oblast federal district/Central Federal District c/Russia established in 1934 from the bipartition of the Central Black Earth Oblast.
en Helen Regan; Michael Rios; Darya Tarasova; Tim Lister Putin thanks North Korea for help in Kursk, as Germany criticizes US plan for Ukrainian concessions w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/europe/ukraine-crimea-peace-plan-north-korea-russia-intl-hnk 2025-04-28 North Korea had not publicly confirmed its contribution until Monday, when it said: “The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded,” according to state-run news agency KCNA. https://web.archive.org/web/20250814154430/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/europe/ukraine-crimea-peace-plan-north-korea-russia-intl-hnk
en impact crater obl/Kursk Oblast federal district/Central Federal District c/Russia six kilometres in diameter, formed 330 to 170 million years ago.
en village/administrative centre selsoviet:suf/Kursky raion/Kulundinsky krai/Altai federal district/Siberian Federal District c/Russia founded in 1909.
en hamlet raion/Krasnoturansky krai/Krasnoyarsk federal district/Siberian Federal District c/Russia.
en hamlet rural settlement:suf/Bolshevrudskoye raion/Volosovsky obl/Leningrad federal district/Northwestern Federal District c/Russia first mentioned in 1500 in Dmitry Kitayev’s Scribe book of the Votian fifth for the year 7008 A.M..
en settlement rural settlement:suf/Bolshevrudskoye raion/Volosovsky obl/Leningrad federal district/Northwestern Federal District c/Russia.
Meronyms
constituent okruga of the city en Seymsky, en Tsentralny, en Zheleznodorozhny
en constituent raiony and city and towns of oblast significance of the oblast Belovsky<qq:raion> Bolshesoldatsky<qq:raion> Cheremisinovsky<qq:raion> Dmitriyevsky<qq:raion> Fatezhsky<qq:raion> Glushkovsky<qq:raion> Gorshechensky<qq:raion> Kastorensky<qq:raion> Khomutovsky<qq:raion> Konyshyovsky<qq:raion> Korenevsky<qq:raion> Kurchatov<qq:town of oblast significance> Kurchatovsky<qq:raion> :Kursk<qq:city of oblast significance> Kursky<qq:raion> Lgov<qq:town of oblast significance> Lgovsky<qq:raion> Manturovsky<qq:raion> Medvensky<qq:raion> Oboyansky<qq:raion> Oktyabrsky<qq:raion> Ponyrovsky<qq:raion> Pristensky<qq:raion> Rylsky<qq:raion> Shchigrovsky<qq:raion> Shchigry<qq:town of oblast significance> Solntsevsky<qq:raion> Sovetsky<qq:raion> Sudzhansky<qq:raion> Timsky<qq:raion> Zheleznogorsk<qq:town of oblast significance> Zheleznogorsky<qq:raion> Zolotukhinsky<qq:raion>
Related terms
en Kurskaya Kursko Kurskoye Kursk-Smolenka Kursky Novokursk
Translations
city in Kursk, Central Russia
Arabic: ar كُورْسْك f
Armenian: hy Կուրսկ
Belarusian: be Курск m
Bulgarian: bg Курск m
Catalan: ca Kursk m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 庫爾斯克 Kù'ěrsīkè
Czech: cs Kursk m
Danish: da Kursk n
Dutch: nl Koersk n
Estonian: et Kursk
Farefare: gur Kursku
Finnish: fi Kursk
French: fr Koursk m
Georgian: ka კურსკი
German: de Kursk n
Hebrew: he קורסק f kursk
Hindi: hi कुर्स्क
Hungarian: hu Kurszk
Japanese: ja クルスク Kurusuku
Korean: ko ^쿠르스크
Latin: la Kurscha f
Latvian: lv Kurska f
Lithuanian: lt Kùrskas m
Macedonian: mk Курск m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Курск
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Kursk n
Occitan: oc Korsk m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira کورْسْک
Polish: pl Kursk m
Portuguese: pt Kursk f
Russian: ru Курск m-in
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Курск m
Latin: sh Kursk m
Slovak: sk Kursk m
Slovene: sl Kursk m
Spanish: es Kursk m
Swedish: sv Kursk n
Thai: th คูสค์
Turkish: tr Kursk
Ukrainian: uk Курськ m
Urdu: ur کُورْسْک m
Vietnamese: vi Kursk
magnetic anomaly in Chernozemye, Russia
Russian: ru Ку́рская магни́тная анома́лия f-in
oblast of Central Russia Kursk Oblast
impact crater in Kursk Oblast, Central Russia
Russian: ru Ку́рский кра́тер m-in
village in Kursky, Kulundinsky, Altai Krai, Siberia
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 庫爾斯克
Russian: ru Курск m-in
hamlet in Krasnoturansky, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia
Russian: ru Курск m-in
hamlet in Bolshevrudskoye, Volosovsky, Leningrad, Northwestern Russia
Russian: ru Курск m-in
settlement in Bolshevrudskoye, Volosovsky, Leningrad, Northwestern Russia
Russian: ru Курск m-in
Further reading
Kursk (disambiguation)
Kursk (inhabited locality)
Kursk, Altai Krai
Battle of Kursk
Kursk Magnetic Anomaly
Kursk Oblast
Administrative divisions of Kursk Oblast
August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
Kursk crater
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m-in kurský
cs oblast c/Russia Kursk
cs city/administrative center obl/Kursk c/Russia Kursk
Declension
m.sg.gena:u
Polish
pl:
thumb|Kursk
Etymology
pl :bor ru:Курск + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m-in kurski
pl oblast c/Russia Kursk
pl city/administrative center obl/Kursk c/Russia Kursk
Declension
Kurska s
Further reading
pl exonyms
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt oblast c/Russia Kursk
pt city/administrative center obl/Kursk c/Russia Kursk
Spanish
es:
Proper noun
es oblast c/Russia Kursk
es city/administrative center obl/Kursk c/Russia Kursk