Example sentences for: petersburg

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

  • Putin's former mentor in St. Petersburg, ex-Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, told the New York Times , "He is a convinced supporter of the market economy.

  • Indeed, out of a random sample of ten major universities where electronic library catalogs were available via the Internet, only six had subscribed to Nature , and only two to Science . More specialized journals are available only in Moscow and perhaps St. Petersburg.

  • 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.

  • The St. Petersburg Times said that "Yeltsin's problem seems to be that he wants to be remembered as having overseen the first democratic transfer of political power in Russia--but at the same time doesn't want to give up power.

  • ' One such hall was built at the railway station at Pavlovsk after that town was linked by rail with St. Petersburg in 1837.


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