Kirovabad

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Ki·ro·va·bad

(kĭ-rō′və-băd′, kyĭ′rə-və-bät′)

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Kirovabad

(Russian kirəvaˈbat)

(Placename) the former name (1936–91) of Gandzha

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Ki•ro•va•bad

(kɪˈroʊ vəˌbæd)

n.

a city in NW Azerbaijan. 270,000.

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The Ganja International Airport of Azerbaijan appealed to the relevant international organizations to replace the code "KVD" (the city's old name - Kirovabad), associated with the city's old name, with a new code "GNJ".

Azerbaijan's Ganja airport seeks to obtain new code

This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku, Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan

Executive Secretary of ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party: U.S. efforts in the Karabakh peace process have increased over the past year of Obama's presidency

Stalinabad's Dinamo became the first champion, while Stalinabad's Spartak took the second place and Kirovabad's Dinamo took the third place.

President of Tajikistan's Football Federation congratulates football fans on World Day of Football

A subgroup became exiles because they were stranded in the USSR: such was the predicament of the 157 Spanish pilots who had studied at Soviet aviation schools in Kirovabad and Khar'kov, and the 69 sailors from the nine Republican ships in Soviet ports at the end of the Iberian conflict.

To Russia with "Spain": Spanish exiles in the USSR and the Longue Duree of Soviet history

Principal battles: Echmiadzin (1804); Aslanduz (1812); Erzurum (1821); Ganja (Kirovabad) (1826).

Abbas Mirza (1783-1833)

The mentioned foreign minister of Armenia recently made a statement, where he mentioned "massacres in "Kirovabad, Gandzak and Baku".