Leningrad
Americannoun
noun
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Ten days into their travels, before they had a chance to visit Leningrad or Riga, Latvia, the four were taken into KGB custody and deported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Drones also damaged a warehouse near Krasny Bor in northwestern Russia, wounding one person, according to Leningrad regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Born in 1984 to educators in what was then Leningrad, Durov has long been fascinated with language and history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Authorities in the Leningrad region said 28 drones were brought down and that a fire had broken out on a vessel in the Baltic port of Primorsk, Russia's largest oil terminal.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Yekaterina’s sister worked at a factory that was evacuated from Leningrad to Moscow, and Yekaterina was able to go along.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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