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Kresty Prison.
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Kushnikov S.S. (1765-1839), Civilian Governor
KUSHNIKOV Sergey Sergeevich (1765 или 1767-1839, St. Petersburg), statesman, Valid Secret Counsellor (1827), nephew of N. M. Karamzin. On graduating from the Land Gentry Cadets' College in St
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Kutuzov M.I. (1745-1813), military commander, Field Marshal-General
KUTUZOV (Golenishchev-Kutuzov) Mikhail Illarionovich (1745-1813), Gracious Prince Smolensky (1812), commander, Field-Marshal General (1812). He graduated from Artillery school and Engineering school in St. Petersburg (1759)
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Kuznetsov A.A. (1905-1950), statesman, 1st secretary of Leningrad regional party committee in 1945-4
KUZNETSOV Alexey Alexandrovich (1905-1950), Soviet statesman and party worker, lieutenant-general (1943). Since 1922 he had been working at the saw-mill in Borovichi town of Novgorodskaya province
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Launitz von der V.F. chief of city administration in 1906
LAUNITZ (v. der Launitz) Vladimir Fedorovich (1855-1906), statesman, Major-General (1905). He graduated from Page Corps school in St. Petersburg (1873). In 1873-87 he served in Guards Cavalry, participated in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78
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Legislative Assembly
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Leningrad City Committee of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
LENINGRAD CITY COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIKS) - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Leningrad City Committee) was the leading organ of the Leningrad City Organization of the Communist Party
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Leningrad Provincial Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)
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Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)
LENINGRAD REGIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIK), later the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leading organ of the Leningrad Regional Organisation of the Communist Party
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Leningrad Soviet
LENINGRAD SOVIET (Leningrad City Soviet of People"s Deputies), the supreme authority on the terriory of Leningrad. It originated from Petrograd Soviet of working people and soldiers" deputies founded on February 27 (March 12 New Style)
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Lithuanian Castle.
LITHUANIAN CASTLE (Seven-towered castle), a prison, used to be situated in Kolomna, near the intersection of the Moyka river and Krukov canal. The 2-storeyed building of the palace was built in 1783-87 (architect I.E
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Lutkovsky I.V. (1814-1891), Governor
LUTKOVSKY Iosif Vasilievich (1814-1891), statesman, full Secret Counselor(1889). Graduated from the Main Engineers' College in St. Petersburg (1832). In 1832-48 he was on military service
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Magistrate courts
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Mayor
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Meeting Houses (entry)
MEETING HOUSES (Meeting Yards), offices of private police officers, located in each of 12 police units. With organization in 1802-03 of regular firefighting service, the Meeting Houses also housed fire brigades headed by brand masters
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Menshikov A.D. (1672/73-1729), governor general
MENSHIKOV Alexander Danilovich (1672 or 1673-1729), count (1702), Serene High Prince of Izhora (1707), a statesman and a military leader, Generalissimo (1727). Once a friend of the young Tsar Peter the Great's, later becoming his closest associate
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Militia
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Miloradovich M.A. governor-general in 1818-25
MILORADOVICH Mikhail Andreevich (1771-1825, St. Petersburg), count (1813), statesman and military figure, infantry general (1809). He attended Koningsberg and Gottingen universities, studied the science of warfare in Metz and Strasbourg
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Municipal Districts
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Municipal Reform of 1870
MUNICIPAL REFORM OF 1870, reorganisation of local power structures as part of the Great Reforms of the 1860s-70s. According to City Regulations approved on 16 June 1870, an All-Estate City Duma was established with two executive bodies
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Munnich B. K. (1683-1767), Engineer, Governor General 1728-34
MUNNICH Christofor Antonovich (Burchard Kristoff) (1683-1767, St. Petersburg), Count (1728), statesman and military figure, General Field Marshal (1732). He was German by birth, came to Russian service in 1721
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Obolensky A.N., chief of the city administration in 1914-16
OBOLENSKY Alexander Nikolaevich (1874, St. Petersburg - 1924), prince, statesman, Major-General (1914). He was educated in Page Corps school, in 1891-1906 served in Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment
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Office of Addresses
OFFICE OF ADDRESSES (from 1839, Address Dispatch Office), was set up in 1809 with the purpose of registration of workers and hired staff coming to St. Petersburg and also with a purpose of preventing people of "inappropriate conduct" from coming to
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Pahlen von der P.A. governor-general in 1797-1801
Pahlen (v. der Pahlen) Peter Alexeevich (Peter Ludwig) (1745-1826), count (1799), statesman and a military figure, Cavalry General (1798). Since 1760 had been attending military service; took part in the Seven-year war of 1756-63
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Passport Offices
PASSPORT OFFICES, institutions issuing passports and registering citizens were created by order of the Central Executive Committee and Soviet of People's Commissariat of the USSR in December
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Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies
PETERSBURG SOVIET OF WORKERS' DEPUTIES, formed on 13 October 1905 during the General Strike of October 1905. The founding sitting of the Soviet, with the participation of 40 delegates from factories and plants from all over the capital
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Petrograd Bureau of the Central Committee of Russian Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)
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Petrograd Cheka
PETROGRAD CHEKA (Petrograd Emergency Committee), the local body of All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, established on March 10, 1918 after the transfer of All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Moscow; it was quartered on 2/6 Gorokhovaya Street
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Petrograd Commune
PETROGRAD COMMUNE (the commune of Petrogradskaya province as of September of 1920), Petrograd consumer commune, the cooperative economic organization, was established in spring of 1919 (officially registered on September 25, 1919)
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Petrograd Defence Committee
PETROGRAD DEFENCE COMMITTEE (the Committee of workers' Petrograd defence), emergency government authority. Established on May 3, 1919 on the basis of Working people and peasants' defence soviet resolution of May 2, 1919
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