petrov

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Since Alex Petrov is a very sharp guy, i have to take him at his word.

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A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Petrova

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noun

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Petrova

noun

A patrilineal surname from Bulgarian

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for petrov.

noun

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Petrova

noun

A patrilineal surname from Bulgarian

Example sentences

Since Alex Petrov is a very sharp guy, i have to take him at his word.

That's the Petrov story, which has legs, but doesn't seem very important to me.

Confused; Petrov was a human in the loop, thus saved the world?

Its not entirely clear that Petrov prevented a nuclear war.

Right up there with Norman Borlaug and Stanislav Petrov on the list of people you've never heard of because CNN is too busy covering Michael Jackson.

In 1983, Gospodin Colonel Stanislav Petrov saved the world.

>Ant-Lab owner Petrov is now moving to Kiev, where the startup scene is more embraced.

Some years after the incident, Petrov told he believed that the system at his station was showing a false alarm and wanted to wait for a confirmation from other stations.

I'd put 2 other names ahead of his: Stanislov Petrov - who didn't intentionally decide to not start WW3, he just decided that if it were going to happen, the Americans would have started it differently.

Proper noun examples

I remember an interview (will try to find a source) where they told an anecdotal story about Petrov.

But I think the guy you are talking about is Stanislav Petrov[1] who is known for preventing nuclear war in 1983[2].

Despite often being illegal, Soviet Union had a history of people holding a portion of their savings in foreign currency(just look up Bulgakov's Master and Margarita or Ilf and Petrov's Golden Calf for early references).