All 8 Uses
Saint Petersburg
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The Hunt for Red October
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- When the Germans invaded a year later, Aleksandr fought heroically as a political commissar, and was later to distinguish himself in the Battle of Leningrad.†
Chpt 1. *Leningrad = name between 1924 & 1991 for Saint Petersburg -- the 2nd largest city in Russia
- Ivanov was the greenest officer aboard, fresh from Lenin's Komsomol School in Leningrad, pale, skinny, and eager.†
Chpt 3.
- At thirteen Marko traveled to Leningrad to attend the Nakhimov School.†
Chpt 3.
- 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.†
Chpt 3.
- 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.†
Chpt 8.
- As they had told him in Leningrad, Melekhin was the best engineer in submarines.†
Chpt 11.
- He's a cook, like we thought, from Leningrad.†
Chpt 14.
- Andre Katyskin, a cook petty officer from Leningrad.†
Chpt 15.
Definitions:
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(1)
(Saint Petersburg) 2nd largest city in Russia; sometimes called the Northern Capital of Russia
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) city in Florida near Tampa Bay