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ANTSIFEROV AWARD, an international prize in honour of N.P. Antsiferov. The prize was founded in 1995 by the initiative of the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of St. Petersburg-Leningrad and the Baltic Humanitarian Fund
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Assembly of Nobility
ASSEMBLY OF NOBILITY, St. Petersburg provincial corporate social class organisation of St. Petersburg Province nobility, founded on the basis of the Charter of Nobility dated 21 April 1785; its aim was to ensure class unity and rights of nobility
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Assembly of Russian Factory and Plant Workers of St. Petersburg
ASSEMBLY OF RUSSIAN FACTORY AND PLANT WORKERS OF ST. PETERSBURG, one of the first legal mass organizations of workers in Russia. Established on the basis of the Community of Mutual Help of Workers in Mechanized Industry (1902-03) it was one of the
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City Connoisseurs' Club
CITY CONNOISSEURS' CLUB, a non-governmental organisation, bringing together lovers of St. Petersburg history. The club was established in 1980 on the initiative of I. A. Martynenko, senior consultant of the All-Russian Monument Protection Society, M
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Civil Control, Public Association
CIVIL CONTROL (87 Ligovsky Avenue), public human rights organisation. It was initiated in 1992 to provide for the Parliament's and people's control over the activity of secret services
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Clubs (entry)
CLUBS (in the 18th - beginning of the 20th century, also called Meetings), until the beginning of the 20th century they were voluntary corporate or class public institutions for leisure and socializing
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Dissident Movement
DISSIDENT MOVEMENT, a term used to define ideologically heterogeneous trends of the opposition in the USSR in the 1960-80s (since 1969, the term has been used in the foreign official press
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Ecological Public Movement
ECOLOGICAL PUBLIC MOVEMENT is an independent movement for protection of the environment comprised of ecological public organizations. The Movement emerged from the former Soviet organizations for nature protection and informal youth movements by the
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Factories and Plants' Committees
FACTORIES AND PLANTS' COMMITTEES, elected bodies of workers and employees' for self management. Emerged after the February Revolution of 1917, in contrast to trade unions
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Foundation for the Renaissance of St. Petersburg-Leningrad
FOUNDATION FOR THE RENAISSANCE OF ST. PETERSBURG-LENINGRAD (the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of St. Petersburg-Leningrad until 2000) (31 Kirochnaya Street), a non-profit association
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Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg
HONORARY CITIZEN OF ST. PETERSBURG, an honorary title conferred on people who made a considerable contribution to the development of the city. In 1866-1908, 7 persons were conferred this title (the conferring didn"t entail any material privileges or
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Institute of St. Petersburg, non-governmental organisation
INSTITUTE OF ST. PETERSBURG, educational institution established in 1991 with the purpose of popularising St. Petersburg culture history; teaching a two-year course which included lectures on the history of architecture, literature, art
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Masonic Lodges
MASONIC LODGES, associations (meetings) of the followers of the religious-ethical doctrine (masonry), urging people to unite on the principles of equality, mutual aid and fraternal love
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Memorial, a non-profit organisation
MEMORIAL (9 Razyezzhaya Street, 23 Rubinsteina Street), a charitable historical and educational human rights non-profit organisation. It was instituted in 1988 on the basis of the movement for erecting monuments to victims of political repressions
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Military Industrial Committees
MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEES (VPK), public administration for military and economic regulation, established during the First World War of 1914-18 for the mobilisation of private enterprises to producing military goods
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Nevsky Society for Public Amusements Arrangement
NEVSKY SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS ARRANGEMENT, a non-governmental organisation instituted on 9 September1891 by a group of Nevsky Zastava manufacturers. The society was preceded by an intellectuals' coterie headed by manufacturer V.P
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Old Petersburg, Society
OLD PETERSBURG, history research society, founded in 1921 by the members of the Pavlovsk Study Seminar. Its Board (chaired by architect L.A. Ilyin) consisted of Alexander N. Benois, P.P. Veyner, V.P. Zubov (headmaster of Art History institute), V.Y
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Perestroika (Restructuring), club
PERESTROIKA (Restructuring), multi-disciplinary club, initiated in 1987 for the support "from below" of the restructuring policy proclaimed by M.S. Gorbachev and the realization of the concept of socialist-type people's self-government
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Regional Study (entry)
REGIONAL STUDY, integrated study of a country or region and its lore. Regional study of St. Petersburg originates from the descriptions of the northern capital presented in the 18th - 19th centuries
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Resurrection, circle of
RESURRECTION (the circle of А. А. Meyer) was a religious philosophical circle. It emerged at the end of 1917, and united philosophers, professionals, representatives of creative intelligentsia — members of the Religious Philosophical Society
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Society of Former Political Convicts and Exiles
SOCIETY OF FORMER POLITICAL CONVICTS AND EXILES, the Leningrad Department (24 Nevsky Prospect) was established in May 1924 (the society itself - in March 1921 in Moscow) with the objectives of providing assistance to former prisoners of Tsarism and
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Society of Plant and Factory Owners of St. Petersburg
SOCIETY OF PLANT AND FACTORY OWNERS of St. Petersburg (26 former Troitskaya Street, present Rubinsteina Street), a representative organisation of metropolitan bourgeoisie
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St. Petersburg Researchers’ Association
ST. PETERSBURG RESEARCHERS’ ASSOCIATION (1/3 Zodchego Rossi Street), a non-profit scientific organisation founded in 1990 by the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of St
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St. Petersburgers Worldwide Club
ST. PETERSBURGERS WORLDWIDE CLUB (6 St. Isaac Square), a non-profit organisation, founded in 1991 with the purpose of reviving St. Petersburg as a spiritual, intellectual, scientific and cultural centre. Its first president was professor N.A
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Trade Unions (general article)
TRADE UNIONS, mass organisations that unite wage workers and salary workers to protect their economic rights and professional interests in the sphere of production, service and culture
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Youth for the Renascence of St. Petersburg, Social Movement
YOUTH FOR THE RENASCENCE OF ST. PETERSBURG, cultural patriotic youth social movement. The movement appeared in 1990 on the initiative of teachers of the Palace of Creative Youth and the city's regional ethnographers
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