How To Use Leningrad In A Sentence
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January 24,1924: Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
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Three days later, after the Leningrad - Moscow railway had been cleared, Stalin declared the blockade broken, and that night the city's anti-aircraft batteries fired victory salvos while the battle rumbled on the western horizon.
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On 7 February, a train steamed into Leningrad after having passed through the corridor and crossed the Neva on track laid over the ice.
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ST.PETERSBURG, situated in extreme Northwest Russia and formerly known as Petrograd or Leningrad, is one of the most beautiful cities of Europe.
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Note was taken that Ned had failed to advise the twelfth floor of Barley's drunken breakout after his return from Leningrad.
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His last years were characterized by disillusionment, drunkenness, and excess, and he committed suicide in Leningrad, writing his last poem in his own blood.
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My hands shook, no doubt from strain and also from weakness–we had been eating a rusk a day for four days…but our column was fresh from Leningrad and we had seen people starving to death.
Sealing Their Fate
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The residents of Leningrad voted to restore the city's original name of St Petersburg.
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Indeed, he still had a high opinion of Slavic chivalry, based on a visit some years before to Leningrad.
KARA KUSH
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Papa worked as a pipe engineer at the Leningrad waterworks plant.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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With a skeptical eye but enormous tenderness, novelist and screenwriter David Benioff dreams up his grandfather's wartime exploits in blockaded Leningrad .....
City of Thieves: Summary and book reviews of City of Thieves by David Benioff.
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The residents of Leningrad voted to restore the city's original name of St Petersburg.
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The Udmurt republic and the Stavropol and Leningrad regions are causing the biggest concerns," he told Medvedev, who chaired the meeting in Volgograd, the site of the Battle of Stalingrad, widely seen as a turning point in World War II.
The St. Petersburg Times
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His achievement in Cleveland was not dissimilar to yours in Berlin and Mravinsky's in Leningrad?
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He retired from international competition to look after his family, coach the Leningrad team and spend his spare time in his favourite occupation of fishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zinoviev and his group had no difficulty in perceiving that the congress would put the political capsheaf on the physical rout that had begun in the streets of Moscow and Leningrad on the tenth anniversary of the October revolution.
My Life
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Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honour - its third name change.
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She is working on the aesthetics of religious imagery in Leningrad poetry of the 1970s.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Death, from hunger, cold, and reduced resistance to illnesses, none of which could be treated, was commonplace in Leningrad.
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Within two weeks, the heroic survivors of Leningrad saw their invaders depart.
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One of the advantages of this form of Dutch is that it is not played nearly as often as the Stonewall or Leningrad (characterized by black's fianchetto of the dark squared bishop) variations.
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He trained as a ship's mechanic in Leningrad then became an accomplished artist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tolmachyov originally had been called Karavannaya back when Leningrad was called St. Petersburg, and then, briefly, Petrograd for its historic role as the final leg in the route of caravans of elephants and camels traveling from exotic lands to the imperial circus, which presides over the street to this day like a giant pink-and-white cream pie.
Peace Meals
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In the arrests which followed in Leningrad non-communists seemed to suffer as much as communists.
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Since the front extended northwestward some 1,900 kilometers from Belgorod to Leningrad, to say that the armies of the Germans and their three principal allies were overextended is putting it mildly.
Deathride
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Leningrad will always be my alma mater, everything started for me there although I am very much a Muscovite now and a fully fledged feeling of the theatre came to me on the Moscow stage, the Bolshoi's stage.
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He never returned to Leningrad, and I never told anyone I had seen him in Murmansk.
Tell Them, Please Tell Them
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We remember Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, commander for the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Leningrad, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Berlin.
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The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and the neighboring Hermitage in Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
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I got unprecedented access to the headquarters of the infamous Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, and in Leningrad I had an exclusive interview with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the ophthalmologist who developed the revolutionary vision correction procedure known as radial keratotomy.
Make Your Life Prime Time
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Tolmachyov originally had been called Karavannaya back when Leningrad was called St. Petersburg, and then, briefly, Petrograd for its historic role as the final leg in the route of caravans of elephants and camels traveling from exotic lands to the imperial circus, which presides over the street to this day like a giant pink-and-white cream pie.
Peace Meals
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Irina (Pevzner) Jacobson was born May 31, 1924, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Russia, to Dveiza Leya (later Yelizaveta) Gurevitch Pevzner, a 24-year-old bookkeeper from Gomel in Belorussia province, and David Pevzner, a 27-year-old civil engineer from Mogilev, Belorussia.
Irina Jacobson.
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Was it a plan to build a last secure bunker in the Lena Valley if Leningrad and Moscow fell to the blitzkrieg?
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When the Soviet Union signed the SALT I Treaty, it chose to build its ABM sites around Moscow and Leningrad.
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Pretty sure you know where this comes from 2. In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long thin street.
First Lines
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And even they may not be properly fit to do so, for those who fathomed the depths of human degradation in Leningrad did not survive to tell the tale.
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege 1941-44 by Anna Reid – review
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During the 1941 Leningrad siege the Soyuzkino / Lenfilm complex was consumed by fire.
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Similar unsanctioned protests, organized by the Communist Party, took place in another Moscow region town, Solnechnogorsk, as well as in Samara, Tatarstan and the Leningrad region.
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The newly re-created Amber Room opened to the public in June 2003 for the tricentennial celebration of St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad).
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I got unprecedented access to the headquarters of the infamous Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, and in Leningrad I had an exclusive interview with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the ophthalmologist who developed the revolutionary vision correction procedure known as radial keratotomy.
Make Your Life Prime Time
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We're just friends, walking through Leningrad in the lucent dusk.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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On the other hand, the greatest hockey victory in Olympic history took place 30 years ago, by a team comprised entirely of college kids from Minnesota, Michigan, and Massachusetts, against a team of highly-skilled veterans primarily from Moscow and Leningrad, who played together year-round in a competitive league with excellent training facilities.
Matthew Yglesias » Olympic Hockey
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Pretty sure you know where this comes from 2. In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long thin street.
First Lines
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The Fall of Berlin has battle scenes galore modelled on the Leningrad Symphony, though there is also a cringe-making pastorale.
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We're just friends, walking through Leningrad in the lucent dusk.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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After the four hundred grams of war-rationed bread in Ivanovo, Leningrad seemed a gastronomic heaven.
A Mountain of Crumbs