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Suzdalsky Lakes
SUZDALSKY LAKES include three meridional reservoirs in the northern St. Petersburg, Shuvalovo and Ozerki. They received their name from Suzdal settlement once existing in this area
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Suzor P. Y. (1844-1919), architect
SUZOR Pavel Yulievich (1844 - 1919, Petrograd), architect, associate academy member of architecture (1892). Graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1866)
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Sverdlov, Plant
SVERDLOV (4 Sverdlovskaya Embankment), a closed joint-stock company from 1996, a machine-tool plant, the largest national manufacturer of highly automated multi-purpose systems for advanced metal working technologies. Founded by J
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Sverdlovskaya Embankment
SVERDLOVSKAYA EMBANKMENT (in 1887-1925 - Polyustrovskaya Embankment, after the area of Polyustrovo), on the right bank of the Neva River, between Arsenalnaya Street and Krasnogvardeiskaya Square. It was named after Y.M. Sverdlov
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Svetlana Factory
SVETLANA FACTORY (27 Engelsa Avenue) is an open joint-stock company (from 1993), the largest factory in design and manufacturing of powerful electric vacuum tubes and microelectronics
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Svetlanovsky Avenue
SVETLANOVSKY AVENUE, between Svetlanovskaya Square and Suzdalsky Avenue. The avenue was built in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1910s, the lot between modern Toreza Avenue and Jacques Duclos Street was constructed and given the name
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Svinyin P. P. (1787-1839),writer, journalist, regional ethnographer
SVINYIN Pavel Petrovich (1787-1839), writer, journalist, collector, honorary associate of the Academy of Arts (1827), member of the Russian Academy (1833) received his primary education at the Boarding School for Nobility affiliated to the Moscow
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Svinyin V.F. (1865-1939), architect
SVINYIN Vasily Fedorovich (1865-1939, Leningrad), architect, engineer, representative of Neoclassicism. Resided in St. Petersburg from 1883, worked as a house-builder, foreman, assistant architect. Graduated from the Academy of Arts (1892)
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Sviridov G.V., (1915-1998), composer
SVIRIDOV Georgy Vasilievich (1915-1998), composer, People's Artist of the USSR (1970), Hero of Socialist Labour (1975). Lived in Leningrad in 1932-56. Graduated from the 1st Musical Institute (then located at 11 Tchaikovskogo Street; today known as
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Swedes
SWEDES, an ethnic community forming a part of the St. Petersburg population. Believers practice Lutheranism. The Swedes attempted to take control of the Neva Region from the 13th century onwards (see the Battle of the Neva 1240, Landskrona)
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Swimming Pools (entry)
SWIMMING POOLS (sports). In the 19th century swimming pools in the city existed only in some bathhouses, e.g. Voroninskie Bathhouse (architect P.Y. Suzor). In 1914-16 the first swimming pool facility in Russia was built for Boys' School No 1
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Symbols of St. Petersburg
THE SYMBOLS OF ST. PETERSBURG, works of art associated with St. Petersburg in the mass consciousness. The best known visual symbols include the weathercocks on the steeples of the SS
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Syn Otechestva (Son of the Fatherland), journal
SYN OTECHESTVA (Son of the Fatherland), a literary journal on history and politics, which appeared from 1812 until 1844 and from 1847 until 1852. Until 1839 it came out weekly, afterwards twice a month, subsequently monthly
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Synagogue Grand Choral
THE GRAND CHORAL SYNAGOGUE, located at 2 Lermontovsky Avenue. An architectural monument, constructed in 1883-93 for the needs of the Judaic community of St. Petersburg. The construction was financed by Baron G. E. Ginzburg (architects I. I
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Synod
SYNOD (Apostolic Governing Synod), the highest collective organ of government of the Russian Orthodox Church, legislative and deliberative body, administrative and judicial institution
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Synthetic Rubber, Lebedev Scientific Research Institute of
SYNTHETIC RUBBER, Lebedev Scientific Research Institute of, located at 1 Gapsalskaya Street. Was established in 1928 by S. V. Lebedev as the State Experimental Factory of Synthetic Rubber of type B (1928)
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Taglioni Philippe (1777-1871) and Taglioni Marie (1804-1884), ballet artists
TAGLIONI Philippe (1777-1871), Italian choreographer, teacher. TAGLIONI Marie (1804-1884), P. Taglioni's daughter, ballet dancer. Both worked at various times under J.F. Coulomb in Paris, Marie also being educated by her father
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Talon Restaurant
TALON (15 Nevsky Prospect / 14 Bolshaya Morskaya). Opened in the mid-1810s by French immigrant P. Talon in the Kosikovsky Residence building (see House of Chicherin)
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Tanya Savicheva, Diary of
TANYA SAVICHEVA, DIARY OF. One of the most tragic symbols of the Siege of 1941-44, the Diary of Tanya Savicheva was a notebook belonging to a Leningrad schoolgirl named Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (1930-44)
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Tapestry Manufacture
TAPESTRY MANUFACTORY was the first large tapestry-making enterprise in Russia, operating from 1717 till 1856, and laying the foundation for a new artistic craft in Russia. The first specialists, a group of weavers headed by P. Camus came to St
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Tarakanovka, river
TARAKANOVKA, a river in the west of St. Petersburg, a tributary to the Ekaterinhofka River. Its original name was Metalovka, probably after the iron foundry situated on its bank
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Tarkhovka, locality
TARKHOVKA, a locality south of Sestroretsk, between the Primorskoe Highway and Lake Sestroretsky Razliv. It borders Razliv on the north, and the Alexandrovskaya station on the south; also the name of a train station along the Saint Petersburg -
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Tarle E.V., (1874-1955), historian
TARLE Evgeny Viktorovich (1874-1955), historian, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1927). He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Kiev University in 1896. In 1901, he moved to St. Petersburg
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Tartars
TARTARS, an ethnic community forming a part of the St. Petersburg population. The Tartar language is related to the Turkish group of Altaic languages. Their faith is Sunni Islam. The Tartars participated in the construction of St. Petersburg
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Tatishchev A.D. Chief of Police General in 1745-60
TATISHCHEV Alexey Danilovich (1697-1760, St. Petersburg), statesman, general en shef (1757). Since 1712 he had been in the military service, took part in the Great Northern war of 1700-21, since 1718 a batman of tsar Peter the Great
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Tauride Palace
TAURIDE PALACE (47 Shpalernaya Street), an architectural monument of Neoclassical. It was constructed in 1783-1789 (architect I.E. Starov) for Prince G.A. Potemkin-Tavrichesky (hence the name)
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Tavricheskaya Street
TAVRICHESKAYA STREET, called Sadovaya Street from the 1820s to 1859, and known as Slutskogo Street from 1918 to 1944, from Suvorovsky Avenue to Shpalernaya Street. The street was laid in the mid-18th century
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Tavrichesky Garden
TAVRICHESKY GARDEN is a landscape architectural monument located between Shpalernaya Street, Tavricheskaya Street, Kirochnaya Street and Potemkinskaya Street. The total area consists of 21.1 hectares
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Taxi
TAXI (borrowed into Russian from the word derived from English tax), motor vehicles transporting passengers for a fee. Private taxicabs appeared in St. Petersburg in the autumn of 1908, at the same time carrier joint-stock companies sprang up
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Tchaikovskogo Street
Tchaikovskogo STREET, from Fontanka River Embankment to Potemkinskaya Street. The street was laid in the first half of the 18th century and originally called Second Artilleryskaya Street, sometimes also referred as Second Pushkarskaya Street
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