посреди́

fairly common #3038C1

preposition

1.
in the middle of, amid
Посреди́ ко́мнаты стоит большо́й стол.
There is a big table in the middle of the room.
Used with the genitive; also of time: посреди ночи 'in the middle of the night'.
2.
(rare) in the middle
Тро́е лежа́ли посреди́, остальные по края́м.
Three were lying in the middle, the rest at the edges.
Adverbial use, without a following noun.

Examples

Насос, выкачивавший нефть, сломался посреди работы.
The pump extracting oil broke down in the middle of the operation.
Том жил в заросшей мхом хи́жине посреди леса́.
Tom lived in a moss-covered hut in the middle of the forest.
Дети вбежа́ли в ко́мнату, посреди кото́рой стоя́ла ёлка.
The children ran into the room, in the middle of which stood a fir tree.
Он приехал невесть откуда посреди ночи.
He arrived from who knows where in the middle of the night.
Термитник возвышался посреди саванны как башня.
The termite mound towered in the middle of the savanna like a tower.
Соседи устроили дебош посреди ночи.
The neighbors caused a commotion in the middle of the night.
Она находи́лась посреди торго́вого це́нтра и обеспокоенно озира́лась по сторона́м.
She was in the middle of the shopping center, anxiously looking back and forth.
Су́дно опроки́нулось посреди океа́на.
The ship capsized in the middle of the ocean.