"железное кольцо"

Translation: an iron ring

[Drakynfly]

i assume that желез means 'iron' then?

[Kundoo]

You are right that "желез" is a stem for the words related to iron. However the actual noun that means "iron" is "железо".

[RomanRussian]

and "утюг" for "an iron" ))

[Drakynfly]

thanks!

[SteveBKK]

Золото́е кольцо́ is a ring of historical cities. I wondered if iron ring had a Soviet meaning

[Kundoo]

It doesn't. Except for the term "iron curtain", the adjective "железный" doesn't contain any particularly Soviet meaning.

[Gulpepper]

So кольцо is the geometric shape?

[natalyaU]

Кольцо is a flat geometric figure formed by two circles with a common center and different radii.
But there is another sense of the phrase. For example,

The hauberk is a long shirt of iron rings

She barely escaped from the iron rings of his embrace

[Wilhelm393905]

That would go great with my iron curtain.

[HaroutManougian]

I'm assuming a Russian-Canadian engineer had something to do with this :)

[Alf42]

Does this mean something other than literally an 'iron ring'?

[Theron126]

I don't think so. An iron road, though, will mean railroad, when you encounter that.

[Zarainia]

Well, in Canada, engineers often wear an iron ring, though that doesn't have much to do with Russia or Russian.

[Norrius]

Probably not.

[dsukhov]

It can be used also like "Он окружён тесным кольцом соратников", "журналисты взяли политика в кольцо" etc. But not iron, though

[IrinaZol]

No, it doesn't.

[john.newbe]

Military ?

[IrinaZol]

No

[AlejandroS586382]

The Iron Throne?

[Sivodna]

I know "iron" from Rocky 4. Thanks Ivan Drago!