Sample Sentences forSaint Petersburg (auto-selected)
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Saint Petersburg was the old and is the new name. It was called Petrograd between 1914 & 1924, and Leningrad between 1924 & 1991.Saint Petersburg = 2nd largest city in Russia; sometimes called the Northern Capital of Russia
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Leningrad — June 14, 1930 — Dear Sasha,† (source)
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As she liked to tell me, "Troy fell, Rome fell, but Leningrad did not fall."† (source)
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As they had told him in Leningrad, Melekhin was the best engineer in submarines.† (source)
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We had a million laughs in Hamburg and West Berlin and East Berlin and Vienna and Salzburg and Helsinki, and in Leningrad, too.† (source)
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Moscow, Leningrad, Tashkent and Kamchatka.† (source)
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Oh, mine too, but in fact was in Novy Leningrad.† (source)
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Saint Petersburg.† (source)
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Those men are conscripts, called up for forced labor from Petrograd.† (source)
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Fifty-eight per cent of the criminal offenses in Leningrad this year were committed by drunken kids.† (source)
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She took him to Florida in the late winter following Gant's return from Augusta: they went to Tampa first, and, a few days later, to Saint Petersburg.† (source)
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In Petrograd Prituliev lived with a certain Pelagia Nilovna Tiagunova.† (source)
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He was trying to find his half brother, Avram Lubarsky, who'd served in the Red Army, who was wounded at Leningrad, who was wounded at Stalingrad, who shot himself in the toe at Grodno, who "This is as far as I'm going," she said now.† (source)
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But all the same, he can't help steering Russian expansionism toward Europe, reawakening sleeping rivalries between Saint Petersburg and Vienna.† (source)
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His father had been killed in the war and his mother had sent him to Petrograd to be apprenticed to his uncle.† (source)
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We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there blue with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art could be equal to it.† (source)
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