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Telegraph Services
TELEGRAPH. Working in St. Petersburg from 1852, when the first long-distance St. Petersburg - Moscow line was opened (before this, the optical telegraph was used for operational communication)
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Telephone Communications
TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS began to operate in St. Petersburg on 30 November 1882, after the construction of the 47km-long St. Petersburg - Gatchina telephone line
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Thunder-stone
THUNDER-STONE, the name of the granite monolith, that serves as a pedestal to the equestrian statue of Emperor Peter the Great (see Bronze Horseman). It was discovered in 1768 in the forest near Konnaya Lakhta village by a local, S.G
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Traktirs (entry)
TRAKTIRS. Taverns, inns, and hotels with restaurants (eating-houses); from the second half of the 19th century, they were much like restaurants, but of a lower rank. In St
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Troitsky A.A., (1866-1942), chess-player
TROITSKY ALEXEY ALEXEEVICH (1866, St. Petersburg, 1942, Leningrad) is inventor of chess exercises, honoured art worker (1928). He graduated from Forestry Institute (1897)
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Tsarskoselskaya Railway
TSARSKOSELSKAYA RAILWAY is the first Russian railway (until 1851 - the only in the country, the 6th in the world), running between St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo
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Varshavsky Railway Station
VARSHAVSKY RAILWAY STATION (located at 188 Obvodny Canal Embankment), was built in 1853 by architect K.A. Skarzhinsky. Traffic on the first section of the railway 44.6 km long, between St
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Velodromes (entry)
VELODROMES. The first velodrome in St. Petersburg with the seating capacity of 10,000 spectators was opened in 1895 on the Kamenny Island; for a short period cycle tracks functioned in Strelna
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Vienna Restaurant
VIENNA restaurant opened in the 1870s by entrepreneur F.I. Rotin in his house at the corner of 8 Gorokhovaya Street and 13 Malaya Morskaya Street (rebuilt in 1875-77, architect I.P. Maas)
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Vitebsky Railway Station
VITEBSKY RAILWAY STATION (formerly St. Petersburg, Tsarskoselsky, Moskovsko-Vindavo-Rybinsky Line, and Detskoselsky Railway Station) (52 Zagorodny Ave). The wooden building of Tsarskoselskaya Railway Station was constructed in August-September 1837
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Voronin M. S. (1838-1903), public figure, entrepreneur
VORONIN Mikhail Stepanovich (1838, St. Petersburg 1903, St. Petersburg), botanist, public figure, entrepreneur, patron of arts, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1898). He graduated from St
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Water Supply Services
WATER SUPPLY SERVICES. Since the very foundation of St. Petersburg the majority of the city population had provided their water supply on their own from the nearest water bodies; the residents of places located far from rivers and canals used the
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Water Towers
WATER TOWERS. Tall structures with reservoirs at the top; in St. Petersburg, they were used mainly to provide water to industrial enterprises and railway stations; for storing water in case of emergency; and for the evening-out of water consumption
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Wolff et Beranget Confectionery
WOLFF ET BERANGET CONFECTIONERY (18 Nevsky Prospect). Opened by the entrepreneurs S.Wolff and T. Beranget in the early 1800s on the first floor of the K.B. Kotomin Building (see House of Kotomin); in the 1820s
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Yacht Clubs (entry)
YACHT CLUBS. Nevsky Flot (Nevskaya Flotiliya) was the first yacht club in Russia. It was founded by order of tsar Peter the Great on 12.4.1718 and had its own flag. It was given 141 small ships "to entertain people" in perpetual tenure
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Yard Keeper
YARD KEEPERS, until the mid-18th century, holders of hostelries, afterwards, they were house workers. In the 18th century the yard keeper’s duty was to clean the yard and the territories adjacent to the house. Yard-keepers served as watchmen as well
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Youth Recreation Centre
YOUTH RECREATION CENTRE (47 Professor Popov Street), built in 1969-80 (architects P.S. Prokhorov, V.P. Tropin, A.P. Izoitko, engineers V.V. Panova, M.E. Khristiansen) as the first recreational centre for young people in the USSR
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Yuntolovskaya Forest Dacha
YUNTOLOVSKAYA FOREST DACHA is a reserve in Primorsky District of St. Petersburg with the total area of approximately 2,000 hectares. It is bordered by the Yuntolovka River and the Kamenka River flowing into the Lake Lakhtinsky Razliv and the fields
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Zastavy (Outposts) (entry)
ZASTAVY (OUTPOSTS), checkpoints, established in the early 18th century on the main roads at the entrance to St. Petersburg to check goods, luggage and to register people, leaving or entering the city
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Zenit, football club
ZENIT, football club. Established in May 1925, under the name of Stalinets (from 1940 - Zenit). Zenit FC participated in the USSR championships from 1936 (from 1938 off and on in the major league)
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