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Common Lodging-houses (entry)

COMMON LODGING-HOUSES (commonly known as "nochlezhkas"). Special lodging for overnight stay for the homeless, appeared in St. Petersburg on the initiative of the Police

District Militia Officers

DISTRICT MILITIA OFFICERS (district commissioners of militia), members of militia of public safety providing social order and preventing crimes on the territory entrusted to them

Dormitories

DORMITORIES. A living-quarters system for a large number of people living together, present in St. Petersburg from the first days of the city’s existence. The first builders of the city lived, as a rule, in large groups

Militia

MILITIA, was created by order of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs on October, 28 (old style: November, 10) 1917 “On Workers' Militia.” On December, 14 (old style: December

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

Sobering-up Stations

SOBERING-UP STATIONS. In Autumn 1936 collection of the drunk in the streets by special brigades of militia driving in cars supplied with special equipment became a usual practice in Leningrad