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Example sentences for: leningrad

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But one can hardly imagine that Sankt-Peterburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/ Sankt-Peterburg will ever be called Peterston .
The change was made by popular demand despite the plea of older residents that it not be made till they, who had heroically withstood the German siege of Leningrad, were dead and gone.
Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.
In the first photograph, Stalin is shown in Leningrad in 1926, posed at a worktable with three cadres; one of them had just been made first secretary of the local party.
It has been said that some people born in Petrograd (as St. Petersburg was renamed with a Slavic calque in World War I) have lived out their lives in Leningrad and will die in Sankt-Peterburg.