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Pumpyansky L.V. (1891-1940), literary critic
PUMPYANSKY Lev Vasilievich [before conversion to Orthodoxy (1911) - Pumpyan Leib Meerovich] (1891-1940, Leningrad), literary critic. In 1912-16, studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg (Petrograd) University
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Punin N.N., (1888-1953), art historian
PUNIN Nikolay Nikolaevich (1888-1953), art theorist, historian, and museum worker. He lived in Pavlovsk and Tsarskoe Selo from the early 1900s. In 1907-14, he studied at the law faculty and faculty of history and philosophy of Petersburg University
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Pushkarev I.I. (1808-1848), Historian, Regional Ethnographer
PUSHKAREV Ivan Ilyich (1803-1848, St. Petersburg), historian, statistician, regional ethnographer. Graduated from the Gymnasium in Simbirsk. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1834. Pushkarev served as a clerk at the Main Engineers College
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Pushkarev V.A. (1915-2002), art historian, museum worker
PUSHKAREV Vasily Alexeevich (1915-2002), art historian, museum worker, honoured worker of arts of the Russian Federation (1994), honorary member of the Academy of Arts (2002)
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Pushkin Children's Library, central, municipal
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY, central, municipal, named after Alexander Pushkin, subordinated to the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg Administration (33 Bolshaya Morskaya Street), founded in 1921
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Pushkin Dacha Museum
PUSHKIN DACHA MUSEUM (Pushkin Town, 2 Pushkinskaya Street) is a branch of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum. It was established in 1958 in the one-storied wooden building, which had earlier belonged to Court Valet Y
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Pushkin Memorial Museum Apartment
PUSHKIN MEMORIAL MUSEUM APARTMENT (12 Moika River Embankment) is a branch of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum. The museum was established in 1925-27 in the flat where the poet spent the last four months of his life from September 1836
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Pushkin Society
PUSHKIN SOCIETY based on the Society of Friends of the State Museum and Reserve Pushkin Corner in 1931 in order to study and popularise Russian classical literature of the 19th century, especially Alexander Pushkin's works
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Pypin A.N., (1833-1904), literary historian
PYPIN Alexander Nikolaevich (1833-1904), specialist in study of literature, ethnographer, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1898). He was a cousin of N.G. Chernyshevsky
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Rail Transport Museum
RAIL TRANSPORT MUSEUM, Central Rail Transport Museum of the Railway Ministry of the Russian Federation (50 Sadovaya Street), Russia's first technology history museum and one of the world's oldest rail transport museums
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Railroad Equipment Museum
RAILROAD EQUIPMENT MUSEUM situated at 118 Obvodny Canal Embankment, one of the largest railway museums in Europe. It was opened as a branch of the Central Oktyabrskaya Railroad Museum at Varshavsky (Warsaw) Terminal in August 2001
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Railway University
RAILWAY UNIVERSITY, Petersburg State Railway University situated at 9 Moskovsky Avenue. It was founded as the Institute of the Corps of Railroad Engineers in 1809, renamed as the Institute of Railroad Engineers in 1924
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Rakov L.L. (1904-1970), Historian, Director of the Museum of Leningrad Defence
RAKOV Lev Lvovich (1904-1970, Leningrad), historian, art historian, museum worker, Ph.D. in History (1938). Rakov graduated from the Department of History of the Leningrad State University in 1929
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Ravdonikas V.I. (1894-1976), archaeologist
RAVDONIKAS Vladislav Iosifovich (1894-1976, Leningrad), archaeologist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1946. He was interested in archaeology from the mid-1910s and dug in Tikhvinsky Uyezd (District)
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Real Schools (entry)
REAL SCHOOLS, incomplete secondary or secondary education institutions providing general and special courses with an emphasis placed on natural sciences and mathematics. The first Real department was opened in St
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Reformed School
REFORMED COLLEGE, Reformed Church College situated at 38 Moika River Embankment, a secondary education institution founded in 1818 by St. Petersburg's reformed community on the basis of a boarding school managed by pastor J
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Regimental Museums (entry)
REGIMENTAL MUSEUMS, historical memorial museums attached to guards and army regiments, stationed in St. Petersburg and its suburbs. They emerged in the middle of the 18th century as a relic depository within regiment churches (see Military Churches)
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Regional Economic Problems, Institute for
REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, Institute for, located at 50а Serpukhovskaya Street, was established in 1975 as the Institute of Social and Economic Problems (ISEP) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR as a result of uniting of several scientific
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Religious and Philosophical Assemblies
RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASSEMBLIES, held from November 1901 to April 1903 in the hall of the Russian Geographical Society at 2 Chernysheva Square (today, Lomonosova Square). They were started on the initiative of D. S. Merezhkovsky, Z. N
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Religious Philosophical Seminar
RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL SEMINAR was an informal union of Leningrad creative intelligentsia who were interested in the study of religion and Russian religious philosophy. The seminar was first held in 1974, its organizer and head was philosopher T.M
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Religious schools
RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS, general education institutions for working-class children and adults in the second half of the 19th - the early 20th centuries, with classes generally held on Sundays
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Repin Academic Institute Of Painting, Sculpture And Architecture, St. Petersburg State
REPIN ACADEMIC INSTITUTE OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE, ST. PETERSBURG STATE, located at 17 Universitetskaya Embankment is the oldest Russian institution of higher artistic education
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Research and Study Centre of Physics and Technology Institute
RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTRE (8 Khlopina Street), educational institution with a continuous education system following the scheme "school - institute of higher education - postgraduate course - doctorate"
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Revolution Museum
REVOLUTION MUSEUM is the first Russian museum of the history of the international revolutionary movement. The museum was inaugurated on 9 October, 1919, and opened for visitors on 11 January, 1920
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Richmann G.W., (1711-1753), physicist
RICHMANN George Wilhelm (1711-1753, St. Petersburg), physicist. Studied at the Academic University. Scientific assistant from 1740, promoted to a professor in 1741
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Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV CONSERVATORY (3 Teatralnaya Square), the oldest Russian higher school of music. The Conservatory was founded in 1861-62 by the Russian Musical Society on the initiative of A.G
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Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum Apartment
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV MEMORIAL MUSEUM APARTMENT (28 Zagorodny Avenue, flat 39) is a branch of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music Art. It was opened in 1971 with the support of Rimsky-Korsakov family
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Roerich Art School
ROERICH ART SCHOOL (88/2 Grazhdansky Avenue) is a special secondary school: it is the oldest art school in Russia. It shares its history with the Auditors Drawing School that was opened by the Ministry of Finances in the Custom House (2 Birzhevaya
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Roerich N.K., (1874-1947), artist, archaeologist, writer
ROERICH Nikolay Konstantinovich (1874, St. Petersburg - 1947), painter, theatre artist, philosopher and public figure. Studied at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University and at the Academy of Arts (1893-97) under A.I
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