Leningrad

American  

[len-in-grad, lyi-nyin-graht] / ˈlɛn ɪnˌgræd, lyɪ nyɪnˈgrɑt /

noun

1. a former name (1924–91) of St. Petersburg

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Leningrad British  

/ lɪninˈɡrat, ˈlɛnɪnˌɡræd /

noun

1. the former name (1937–91) of Saint Petersburg

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Leningrad Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

Over 140 drones were shot down over the Leningrad region, which surrounds Saint Petersburg, governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

Ukraine's SBU security services said they had targeted the city's Kronstadt naval base, as well as "the Russian Navy's 15th Arsenal in the Leningrad region".

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

In the communal building where she lived during the blockade of Leningrad, “there was no person or family, no apartment without acute diarrhea, sometimes up to nineteen-twenty times a day.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The second-most populous city in Russia has not been called Leningrad since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, when the president was 45 years old.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2025

The Siege of Leningrad did not end until January 1944, almost two years after the premiere of the symphony dedicated to it.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall