The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leningrad \Leningrad\ prop. n. A city in the European part of Soviet Russia; the former capital of Russia. The name was formerly St. Petersburg and Petrograd, and was changed back to Saint Petersburg (Sankt Peterburg in Russian) in 1992.
Syn: St. Petersburg, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg.
Wikipedia
Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city in Russia.
Saint Petersburg may also refer to:
Places in the USA- Petersburg, Alaska also sometimes referred to as St Petersburg in the media
- Saint Petersburg, Colorado
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- St. Petersburg, Pennsylvania
- St. Petersburg, Missouri, fictional hometown of Mark Twain's characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
- St. Petersburg paradox, in probability theory and decision theory
- St. Petersburg (tune), a tune by composer Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825)
- St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Saint Petersburg (board game), 2004 designer board game
- "St. Petersburg" (song), 2005 song by the band Supergrass
- City of St. Petersburg, a roll-on/roll-off, car carrier cargo ship
- Saint Petersburg (film), a 2010 film
Saint Petersburg is a card-driven designer board game, with the design of the game credited to Michael Tummelhofer, a pseudonym for Michael Bruinsma, Jay Tummelson and Bernd Brunnhofer. Most of the design work was done by Brunnhofer. The game was published in 2004 by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games, and won the Deutscher Spiele Preis and International Gamers Award for that year.
The first expansion, by Karl-Heinz Schmiel, is The Banquet, appearing first as an insert in a magazine, and consists of 12 new cards (3 normal and 9 special), as well as rules to use them. The second expansion, by Tom Lehmann, is The New Society and consists of 36 cards (28 normal, 7 replacement, and a fifth role card), plus rules to use them and to expand the game to five players. Both expansions were bundled together and sold as the St. Petersburg Expansion.
Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with five million inhabitants in 2012, and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It is politically incorporated as a federal subject (a federal city). Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. Between 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the imperial capital of Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow.
Saint Petersburg is the most Westernized city of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to The Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. A large number of foreign consulates, international corporations, banks, and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
“Saint Petersburg” (previously – hotel “Leningrad”) is a 3-star hotel in the historical center of Saint Petersburg located on the Pirogovskaya Embankment, 5. The hotel was founded in 1970.
Saint Petersburg was a Russian rock band, formed in 1969 in Leningrad. One of the oldest rock bands of the USSR; the first Soviet rock band, who performed a program entirely of his own songs in Russian. The founder, leader and only permanent member - Vladimir Rekshan.
Saint Petersburg (in Persian: سن پترزبورگ) is a 2010 Iranian comedy film directed by Behrouz Afkhami. Peyman Ghassemkhani, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Bahareh Rahnama, Shila Khodadad, Amin Hayai, Soroush Sehhat and Andisheh Fooladvand were among the actors and Peiman Ghasemkhani wrote the screenplay.
The film deals with the relation of a robber with the last tsar family of Romanovs.
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Usage examples of "saint petersburg".
What could I have said that I didn't say on the Kissing Bridge in Saint Petersburg?
I've been watching how we've all been responding to things just now, to the news of Saint Petersburg and to what the Cretan officer told beautifully-- only it wasn't beautiful what she had to tell--and mostly to that bloody box of bomb.
The furies welling up in the soul of Mother Russia would soon sweep across the country from Siberia to Saint Petersburg.
But what she actually saw had best been summed up by the taxi driver who had delivered her and Aston to the Saint Petersburg Zoo.
You have only to read in the papers of the recent strikes in Saint Petersburg, and the manifestations of the strikers with the pretext of President Poincare’.
But if the crew of the Risstimi hadn't hung on to the failed control system mentally, the ship would have continued right across the continent and impacted on Saint Petersburg, where nearly two million people lived at the time.
As I recalled, the last time I had seen her was at a banquet held following the International Cockfighting Tournament in Saint Petersburg.
We want to keep him happy and contented so he won't go wandering off again, to Saint Petersburg or Capetown or Lhasa.
Then the CIA bought it as part of a training program for a secret army to invade Jamaica but they got defeated by some small boys with slingshots on the beach, so they sold it, according to the records search, to the Saint Petersburg Grimes, who used it for a place to hide out their reporters when people wanted to shoot them.
He had seen the slaughter at Beslan, taken part in the even bloodier siege of the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Saint Petersburg, and fought all over the Central Siberian Plateau during the Chinese incursions.