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Example sentences for: petersburg

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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.
Although President Yeltsin decided to attend the St. Petersburg ceremony barely 24 hours before it took place, his remarks were heavy with remorse.
At about the same time a young Uzbek on the train between Moscow and Petersburg seemed perfectly at home in Russian, I suspect more so than he would have been in Uzbek.
[From St. Petersburg Times (n.d.)
The remains of the czar and his family are set to be formally buried, with an official ceremony, July 17 in St. Petersburg.