a city in European Russia, a port on the River Volga south-east of Nizhni Novgorod; population 607,000 (est. 2008). Between 1924 and 1992 it was called Ulyanovsk, in honour of Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov), who was born there in 1870.
Simbirsk in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of Simbirsk in the US English dictionary
