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St. Sofia Cathedral at Tsarskoe Selo
ST. SOFIA CATHEDRAL AT TSARSKOE SELO, located at 1 Sofyskaya Square, Pushkin. The traditional name of the Holy Ascension Cathedral, built in 1782-88 in the Classicist style (architect C
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Stable Museum
STABLE MUSEUM (the Museum of Court Carriages). Founded in 1857, at the Court Department of Stables; opened in 1860. The two-story Stable Museum building (4 Konyushennaya Square), built in 1857-1860s (architect P.S
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Stachek Avenue
STACHEK AVENUE, called Petergofskoe Highway until 1923, then known as Stachek Street until 1940, between Stachek Square and the place where Marshala Zhukova Avenue and Petergofskoe Freeway intersect
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Stachek Square
STACHEK SQUARE, known as Narvskaya Square until 1923, at the intersection of Stachek Avenue, Narvsky Avenue and Staro-Petergofsky Avenue. The square assumed the present-day name in commemoration of the strike movement (the name of the square
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Stadiums (entry)
STADIUMS. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were several sport-grounds and football fields in St Petersburg. The Lenin Stadium (1925; now Petrovsky) was Leningrad's first. In 1950, the Kirov Stadium was opened
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Stakensсhneider А.I. (1802-1865), architect
STAKENSCHNEIDER Andrey Ivanovich (1802-1865), architect and graphic artist (draughtsman), full privy counsellor (1858). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1821); from 1834, associate academy member, honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts
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Stalin I.V. (1878-1953), revolutionary, statesman
STALIN (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich (1879 (according to other sources, 1878) - 1953), Soviet statesman and party figure. Hero of Socialist Labour (1939), Hero of the Soviet Union (1945), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945)
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Stanyukovich K.M. (1843-1903), writer
STANYUKOVICH Konstantin Mikhailovich (1843-1903), a prose writer and publicist. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1855. He studied at the Naval Cadet Corps in 1857-60 (present-day 17 Leytenanta Shmidta Embankment; collective memorial plaque)
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Staraya Derevnya
STARAYA DEREVNYA, a historical district in the north-west of St. Petersburg, on the right bank of the Bolshaya Nevka River (opposite Elagin Island), to the west of Novaya Derevnya. In the 18th century, chancellor A. P
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Starinny (Old) Theatre
STARINNY (OLD) THEATRE, drama theatre. Functioned in the season of 1907/08 at Kononovsky Hall, 61 Moika River Embankment (today the University for Telecommunication), and 1911/12 in the exhibition halls of Solyanoy Settlement, 9b Solyanoy Lane
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Staro-Petergofsky Avenue
STARO-PETERGOFSKY AVENUE, called Yunogo Proletariya Avenue from 1922 to 1933, then known as Gaza Avenue until 1991, in honour of I.I. Gaza, a Bolshevist and a worker of Putilov Plant (1894-1933). It leads from the Fontanka River to Stachek Square
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Staropanovo
STAROPANOVO, the former village, located to the south of Ligovo Railway Station, along Tallinskoe Freeway (buildings 60-190). Appeared in the early 19th century (was also-called Maloe Ligovo and Ekaterininskaya)
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Starov I.E. (1744-1808), architect
STAROV Ivan Egorovich (1745-1808, St. Petersburg), architect, city-planner, one of the founders of Russian Neoclassicism. Resided in St. Petersburg from 1758. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1762). Apprenticed with architect C
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Starovoytova G.V. (1946-1998), ethnographer, politician
STAROVOYTOVA Galina Vasilievna (1946-1998, St. Petersburg), public and political figure, human rights advocate, ethnopsychologist, Ph.D. (History) (1975). She lived in Leningrad from 1948
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Starozhilovka, river
STAROZHILOVKA, a river in the north of St. Petersburg, in the area of Shuvalovo and Pargolovo. The river draws its water from the southern slope of the Pargolovo Hills and flows into Lake Nizhnee Bolshoe Suzdalskoe
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Stars of White Nights, festival
STARS OF WHITE NIGHTS, the Mariinsky Theatre's annual summer international music festival. First held in 1993 on the initiative of Mariinsky Theatre conductor and artistic director V. А. Gergiev
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Startsev V.I. (1931-2000), Historian
STARTSEV Vitaly Ivanovich (1931, Leningrad - 2000, St. Petersburg) historian, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education (1992), Ph.D. in History (1973)
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Starye Gody (The Bygone Years), journal
STARYE GODY (The Bygone Years), a journal, a monthly for art and antiquity lovers, appearing in 1907-16 as a publication of The Circle of Russian Deluxe Edition Lovers
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Stasov V.P. (1769-1848), architect
STASOV Vasily Petrovich (1769-1848, St. Petersburg), architect, representative of the Empire style. The father of V.V. Stasov. From 1783, worked in the Moscow Bureau of Architecture of the Police Department
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Stasov V.V., (1824-1906), critic, public figure
STASOV Vladimir Vasilievich (1824, St. Petersburg - 1906, St. Petersburg), art and music critic, arts historian, ethnographer, public figure, Honorary Member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900), son of V.P. Stasov
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Stasyulevich М.М. (1826-1911), publisher, historian
STASYULEVICH Mikhail Matveevich (1826, St. Petersburg -1911), historian, journalist, public figure. He graduated the Larinskaya Gymnasium in St. Petersburg (1843, where in 1849-53 took up teaching history)
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State Assembly
STATE ASSEMBLY was the highest advisory (from 1906, legislative) body in the Russian Empire. It was established by a Decree on 30 March 1801, and transformed on 1 January 1810
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State Bank
STATE BANK established in 1860 for the resuscitation of business and the consolidation of monetary and credit systems. The bank was located at 21 Sadovaya Street; it took deposits, set up accounts, provided short-term credit and loans
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State Chancellery
STATE CHANCELLERY, a State Assembly office, instituted on 1 January 1810 in accordance with state reforms conceived by M.M. Speransky, who became its first director
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State Duma
STATE DUMA (1905-17), the lower house of the Russian Parliament. It was established on 6 August 1905 as a deliberating representative body for preliminary discussions of legislative proposals
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State Electrotechnical University "LETI", St. Petersburg
STATE ELECTROTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY "LETI", St. Petersburg (SEU) (5 Professora Popova Street) was founded in 1886 as a technical school for the Post and Telegraph Department
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State Hydrological Institute
STATE HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service, situated at 23 Second Line of Vasilievsky Island, the only research institution in Russia studying water resources such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and swamps
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State Inspectorate
STATE INSPECTORATE (1811-1917), the central establishment for financial control in the Russian Empire (preceded by the Main Directorate for the Auditing of State Invoices, which existed until 1836 and was headed by the State Inspector)
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State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg
STATE INSTITUTE (UNIVERSITY) OF FINE MECHANICS AND OPTICS, St. Petersburg (14 Sablinskaya Street) was founded in 1930 on the basis of the Technical School of Fine Mechanics and Optics. In 1994, it received university status and its present-day name
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State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg
STATE INSTITUTE (UNIVERSITY) OF TECHNOLOGY, St. Petersburg (26 Moskovsky Avenue) was founded in 1828 under the name of the Petersburg Practical Technology Institute
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