Example sentences for: peterburg

How can you use “peterburg” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nothing laid bare the latent loathing of Communism, even at its best, in Russia so strikingly as the change by referendum from Leningrad to Sankt-Peterburg .

  • Sankt-Peterburg is awkward, is un-Slavic, un-Russian, grating.

  • In November, 1991, when I mentioned to a resident of Sankt-Peterburg my distaste for the restored official name, she shrugged and remarked, Well, the thing was to get rid of the Lenin .

  • Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.

  • A Vienna-based cotton broker whom I met in Sankt-Peterburg in November, 1991, was negotiating with Uzbeks in Russian.


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