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Kursk

NOUN
  1. a city of southwestern Russia

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  • Fifth Fleet spokesman said that at 1:00 on the 20th or so, "Hartford" Kursk and "New Orleans" amphibious landing ship collided in New Orleans, killing 15 submarine crew was slightly injured.
  • LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Britain says the Russian government has now ask for help in the rescue mission of that ill-fated nuclear submarine, Kursk, which is on the bottom of the Barents Sea. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Russian Submarine Accident: British to Help in Rescue Mission - August 16, 2000
  • HANNA: A number of the sailors were born in this town called Kursk, the town after which the submarine was named. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Submarine Kursk and Town of Kursk Wait for Rescue - August 15, 2000
  • They used for the first time at Kursk self-propelled artillery regiments that proved to be an effective means of support to tank and infantry attacks.
  • But this time, not with armies in Super-Kursk panzer battles -- and certainly, thanks to massive retaliation, not with nukes. Michael Vlahos: James Bond, We Hardly Knew Ye
  • In his anecdotically fascinating review of three books on the life of Kim Philby and the Cambridge University spy ring [ "The Fabulous Five," NYR, January 12] Noel Annan leaves the impression that if it were not for John Cairncross (one of the "faithful servants" of the KGB) and his access to Ultra at Bletchley, England, the "rout" of German tanks by the Russians at Kursk could have gone the other way. Serving the KGB
  • Then suddenly two explosions rocked the water and the Kursk was down, settling with a dull thump on the sea floor.
  • According to the salvage plan, Kursk will be secured beneath a number of specially designed pontoons to be ferried to a dry dock in Murmansk, the base of Russia's Northern Fleet, for examination.
  • LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We've gotten some late word now on the fate of that Russian submarine, the Kursk, which is now lying on the bottom of the Barents Sea. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Russian Submarine Accident: Russia Asks Britain for Help - August 16, 2000
  • Though the weather after 5 July was essentially clear, it worked against the German army during the critical initial advance into the Kursk salient.
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