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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)
  • MIKESGRILL, Novy Leningrad.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Married, wife's name unlisted; children unlisted; Director Leningrad Agitprop 1946-49; Candidate member Presidium 1950-53; Director waterworks, Naryan Mar, Siberia, since fall of Malenkov.†   (source)
  • Fifty-eight per cent of the criminal offenses in Leningrad this year were committed by drunken kids.†   (source)
  • Those men are conscripts, called up for forced labor from Petrograd.†   (source)
  • They only found out it was Egyptian after we'd bombed Leningrad and Odessa and the nuclear establishments at Kharkov, Kuibyshev, and Molotov.†   (source)
  • Over two million had died during Leningrad, where only seventy thousand had died here.†   (source)
  • Leningrad -- June 14, 1930 -- Dear Sasha,†   (source)
  • I am Professor Matej Sirovich from Leningrad State University.†   (source)
  • In August, he was invited to the offices of the NKVD in Leningrad for questioning.†   (source)
  • At thirteen Marko traveled to Leningrad to attend the Nakhimov School.†   (source)
  • Oh, mine too,, but in fact was in Novy Leningrad.†   (source)
  • No one in Leningrad wants a finger pointed at him from a bureaucrat in Moscow.†   (source)
  • Andre Katyskin, a cook petty officer from Leningrad.†   (source)
  • Novy Leningrad names didn't mean much to us; Prof recognized three, Wyoh one.†   (source)
  • He's a cook, like we thought, from Leningrad.†   (source)
  • As they had told him in Leningrad, Melekhin was the best engineer in submarines.†   (source)
  • In Petrograd Prituliev lived with a certain Pelagia Nilovna Tiagunova.†   (source)
  • There was an inevitability to it under the circumstances, and seeing it happen uncorked horrors crowding the back of my mind—Irena's stories of Leningrad, when roving gangs had started attacking and eating people, and the police had been forced to start an anti-cannibalism unit to combat it.†   (source)
  • Here is what had unfolded: Early that morning, Mikhail Mindich had arrived in Moscow on the overnight train from Leningrad.†   (source)
  • The U.S. delegation said they thought it would be safer for me to go with them to Leningrad and leave Russia from there rather than from Moscow.†   (source)
  • Also in Moskva, automobiles under different names, different tag plates-Leningrad, Smolensk, who knows-all to not look for automobile laws broken.†   (source)
  • I was happy to go home via Leningrad.†   (source)
  • We had it calculated by the best mathematical geneticist in Novy Leningrad—one of the best in Sovunion before she got shipped.†   (source)
  • Leningrad was where the Kirov Ballet and the Vaganova Ballet School were based, so I would have the opportunity of visiting the Mariinsky Theater where the Kirov Ballet performed and of visiting the Vaganova Ballet School.†   (source)
  • One live missile chopped my circuits to Novy Leningrad, but reports routed through Luna City inform me that local controls tripped in satisfactorily with no loss in city services.†   (source)
  • LuNoHoCo was much larger, just as phony, and not at all dummy; it had main offices in Hong Kong, branches in Novy Leningrad and Luna City, eventually employed hundreds of people most of whom were not Party members, and was our most difficult operation.†   (source)
  • Ivanov was the greenest officer aboard, fresh from Lenin's Komsomol School in Leningrad, pale, skinny, and eager.†   (source)
  • This was partially a slur against his half-Lithuanian blood—though since he had been born in Leningrad of a Great Russian, his internal passport designated him as that—but mainly recognition that officers came to him half-trained and left him ready for advancement and eventual command.†   (source)
  • In May 2075, besides controlling robot traffic and catapult and giving ballistic advice and/or control for manned ships, Mike controlled phone system for all Luna, same for Luna-Terra voice & video, handled air, water, temperature, humidity, and sewage for Luna City, Novy Leningrad, and several smaller warrens (not Hong Kong in Luna), did accounting and payrolls for Luna Authority, and, by lease, same for many firms and banks.†   (source)
  • Evgeni Sigismondavich Politovskiy had served the czar's navy with skill and a devotion to duty equal to that of any officer in history, but in his diary, which was discovered years later in Leningrad, the brilliant officer had decried in the most violent terms the corruption and excesses of the czarist regime, giving a grim counterpoint to the selfless patriotism he had shown as he sailed knowingly to his death.†   (source)
  • Take Leningrad.†   (source)
  • He selected a slender book, Directory of Communist Leaders, found the name, and read: "Torgatz, Dmitri; born Leningrad 1903?†   (source)
  • His father had been killed in the war and his mother had sent him to Petrograd to be apprenticed to his uncle.†   (source)
  • You can't fool me," came the crisp commanding voice of the Colonel speaking with Petrograd distinctness.†   (source)
  • They were a remarkable sight-rich, smart lawyers and stockbrokers from Petrograd side by side with cab drivers, floor polishers, bath attendants, Tartar ragpickers, escaped lunatics, shopkeepers, and monks, all lumped in with the exploiting classes.†   (source)
  • They were Prokhor Kharitonovich Prituliev, who had been cashier in a government liquor store in Petrograd— the cashier, as he was called in the car; Vasia Brykin, a sixteen-year-old boy apprenticed to an ironmonger; and Kostoied-Amursky, a gray-haired revolutionary co-operativist, who had been in all the forced-labor camps of the old regime and was now discovering those of the new.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • But all the same, he can't help steering Russian expansionism toward Europe, reawakening sleeping rivalries between Saint Petersburg and Vienna.†   (source)
  • Edward knows as well as you or I that the potentates in Saint Petersburg have to make good their losses in Manchuria and desperately need to distract their own revolutionaries.†   (source)
  • The first, his neighbor on the left, was A. K. Ferge, the good-natured martyr from Saint Petersburg, from under whose bushy reddish-brown moustache came anecdotes about the manufacture of galoshes and tales of distant regions, the Arctic Circle, and the perpetual winter at North Cape.†   (source)
  • The singers he listened to, but could not see, had bodies that resided in America, in Milan, in Vienna, in Saint Petersburg—and they could reside where they liked, because what he had was the best part of them, the voice, and he valued this purified form, this abstraction that still remained physical enough to allow him real human control, and yet excluded all the disadvantages of too close personal contact, particularly if they happened to be fellow countrymen, Germans.†   (source)
  • They both enjoyed, however, their visits with Anton Karlovitch Ferge from Saint Petersburg, a fellow with a huge good-natured moustache and a protruding Adam's apple that somehow seemed equally good-natured; he lay there in his bed, recovering very slowly and with great difficulty from an attempted pneumothorax, which, Herr Ferge said, had come within an inch of costing him his life.†   (source)
  • The Little Russian of the Ukraine is unintelligible to the citizen of Petrograd; [Pg021] the Northern Italian can scarcely follow a conversation in Sicilian; the Low German from Hamburg is a foreigner in Munich; the Breton flounders in Gascony.†   (source)
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