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Gagarin Yury Alexeevich
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Baltic Shipyard and Machine-Building Plant
BALTIC SHIPYARD AND MACHINE-BUILDING PLANT (16 Kosaya Line), open joint-stock company, one of the biggest ship and machine building enterprises of Russia. It was founded in 1856 by M. E. Karr, a merchant and M. L. McPherson, an engineer
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Bolshoy Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side
BOLSHOY AVENUE OF PETROGRADSKAYA SIDE, in the 18th century - Bolshaya Road, Bolshaya Garnizonnaya Road, Bolshaya Ofitserskaya Street, in 1919-44 - K. Libknekhta Avenue. It lies between Dobrolyubova Avenue and Karpovka River Embankment
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Popular Carnivals
POPULAR CARNIVALS, one of the forms of mass popular entertainment. In the 18th- 19th centuries up to 30 carnivals were arranged in St. Petersburg annually. Representatives of all the estates and even members of the royal family took part in them
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Skating Rinks
SKATING RINKS. Natural skating rinks on the Neva River and other ponds have been being arranged in St. Petersburg since the beginning of the 18th century. The first public skating rink was opened in 1865 in Yusupovsky Garden as the skating rink of
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Yury Gagarin Avenue
YURY GAGARIN AVENUE, between Blagodatnaya Street and Moskovskoe Freeway. From the 1910s to 1961 the avenue bore the name Narymsky Avenue, after the village of Narym in Tomskaya Region
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