Великий Новгород

Russian

Alternative forms

• Вели́кій Но́вгородъ (Velíkij Nóvgorod) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Etymology

The medieval Novgorod Republic used the appellation Господи́н Вели́кий Но́вгород (Gospodín Velíkij Nóvgorod, “Lord Novgorod the Great”). The form Вели́кий Но́вгород (Velíkij Nóvgorod, “Novgorod the Great”) continued to be occasionally used over the following centuries to distinguish Novgorod from Nizhny Novgorod, and was adopted as Novgorod's official name in 1999.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət]

Proper noun

Вели́кий Но́вгород • (Velíkij Nóvgorod) m inan (genitive Вели́кого Но́вгорода, relational adjective новгоро́дский or великоновгоро́дский)

1. Veliky Novgorod, formerly known simply as Novgorod (a city, the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast, Russia)

Declension

Declension of Вели́кий Но́вгород (inan sg-only masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	Вели́кий Но́вгород Velíkij Nóvgorod
genitive	Вели́кого Но́вгорода Velíkovo Nóvgoroda
dative	Вели́кому Но́вгороду Velíkomu Nóvgorodu
accusative	Вели́кий Но́вгород Velíkij Nóvgorod
instrumental	Вели́ким Но́вгородом Velíkim Nóvgorodom
prepositional	Вели́ком Но́вгороде Velíkom Nóvgorode

Related terms

• Но́вгород (Nóvgorod)