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Persons / Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich public figure , statesman
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Kirov S.M. the 1st secretary of the regional party committee in 1926-34

KIROV (born Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich (1886-1934, Leningrad), statesman and party worker. He graduated from Kazan Elementary Mechanical-technical School (1904)


1926

The Centre of the Communist Party Education, where 6-month courses of Marxism-Leninism for functionaries of the Communist Party, Young Commuinist League and Trade Union were organized, was opened on S.M
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1934

1 January. The balloon "Osoaviakhim - 1" was risen at a height of twenty two hundred metres; the Tsarskoye Selo native A.B. Vasenko, a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Gymnasium, a worker of the Pavlovsk upper-air observatory
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

Anniversaries of Petersburg (centenary, bicentenary, two hundred fiftieth anniversary, tercentenary)

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Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island

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Bolshoy Dom

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Central Park of Culture and Recreation

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Chabukiani V.M., (1910-1992), choreographer

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City Connoisseurs' Club

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Dudinskaya N.М.(1912-2003), ballet dancer, instructor

DUDINSKAYA Natalia Mikhailovna (1912-2003, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer, People's Artist of the USSR (1957), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (1998). Graduated from the Leningrad Choreography School under of A. Y. Vaganova in 1931

Earthern Dams

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Elektrosila Plant

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Forestry Engineering Academy

FORESTRY ENGINEERING ACADEMY, Kirov St. Petersburg State Forestry Engineering Academy, situated at 5 Institutsky Avenue. It was founded in Tsarskoe Selo in 1803 as the Real Forestry School reorganised into the Forestry Institute in St

Fountains (entry)

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Glier R.M., (1874-1956), composer

GLIER Reingold Moritsevich (1874-1956), composer, conductor, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1938), Doctor of Arts (1941). Graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1900

Grebnoy Canal

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Industrial Architecture (entry)

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Jazz

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Kamennoostrovsky Avenue

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Kirov Spinning and Filar Factory

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Kirov Stadium

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Kirovskaya Square

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Kirovskie Islands

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Kirovsky District

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Kirovsky Stream

KIROVSLY STREAM is the unofficial name of large-scale persecutions in Leningrad after the murder of S.M. Kirov on 1 December 1934. A Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR was adopted on the day of the murder

Komarov N.P. the chairman of Leningrad Soviet in 1926-28

KOMAROV Nikolay Pavlovich (born Fedor Evgenyevich Sobinov) (1886-1937), a statesman and Soviet Party worker. Had been living in St. Petersburg since 1902. In 1912 he graduated from the city 4-grade technical school

Kovaleva G.V. (1932-1995), singer

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Krestovsky Island

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Kschessinska Mansion

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Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)

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Lines of Vasilievsky Island (entry)

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Lopukhov F.V., (1886-1973), choreographer

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Malaya Neva

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Mariinsky Theatre

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Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education

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Moskovskoe Freeway

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Mravinsky Е.А., (1903-1988), conductor

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Museums (general article)

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Nevskaya Strike (1870)

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Nevskaya Zastava

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Nikolsky A. S. (1884-1953), architect

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Nobles

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Officers' House

OFFICERS’ HOUSE (20 Liteyny Avenue), a cultural educational establishment of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence, and professional military servicemen’s club. Founded in 1918 as the Red Army House, it was given the name of S.M

Ostrova, area

OSTROVA (Islands), general unofficial name of Elagin Island, Krestovsky Island and Kamenny Island (see articles), that was common in the 19th - early 20th centuries. In 1934-92, these islands were renamed Kirovskie (after S.M. Kirov)

Palaces and Houses of Culture (entry)

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Pechkovsky N.K., (1896-1966), singer

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Peski

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Petrodvortsovy District

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Petrogradsky District

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Physical Education and Sports (entry)

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Preobrazhenskaya S.P., (1904-1966), singer

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Primorsky Park of Victory

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Prokofiev S.S., (1891-1953), composer

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S. M. Kirov Museum

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Samson, Meat-Processing Plant

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Sergeev K.M., (1910-1992), dancer

SERGEEV Konstantin Mikhailovich (1910 - 1992, St. Petersburg), dancer, ballet-master, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1957). In 1930-61, after graduating from the Leningrad choreographic School under V.I

Shelest A.Y., (1919-1998), ballerina

SHELEST Alla Yakovlevna (1919-1998, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer, pedagogue, People's Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1957). Upon graduating from A.Y

Skating Rinks

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Smena (The New Generation), newspaper

SMENA (The New Generation), founded as the newspaper of the workers' and peasants' youth by the provincial committee of the Revolutionary Communist Youth League

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