Semirechye

English

Proper noun

Semirechye

1. (historical) An oblast (province) of the Russian Empire corresponding to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 69:

     During his long and successful career as ataman of the Don Cossacks, then as governor-general of Turkestan and ataman of the Semirechye Cossacks, Cavalry General Samsonov had learned to carry out his duties in an unhurried and deliberate fashion […].