Leningrad

[ len-in-grad; Russian lyi-nyin-graht ]

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noun

Leningrad

/ lɪninˈɡrat; ˈlɛnɪnˌɡræd /

Leningrad

Name of Saint Petersburg , Russia , from 1924 to 1991. ( See Saint Petersburg .)

From the moment the two had met on the streets of Leningrad in their 20s, they were like brothers.

From Time

So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”

It had triumphed since its twin premieres in Leningrad and Moscow in 1934.

In June 1989, the head of the KGB in Leningrad issued a public statement condemning secret-police crimes committed under Stalin.

Dovlatov lived for a long time in Leningrad and gave a loving depiction of it, but nbsp;there is no street named for him there.

He sought out the remnants of Siam in Thailand, and Rhodesia in Zimbabwe, and Leningrad in St. Petersburg.

All they saw were the continued orders, the repeated visits of Mr. John Smith to Leningrad on buying trips.

They go only to Leningrad, spend a day or two, and go back again across the border.

Did Marina tell you that she subsequently left Leningrad and moved to Minsk?

Did Marina tell you that she had lived in Leningrad for awhile?

Yes; she told me she was living in Leningrad and then moved to Minsk.

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