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Baltic Fleet
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Air Defence (PVO)
AIR DEFENCE (PVO), a series of measures and units to protect the city from air raids. Not long after the USSR Air Defence System was created in the 1930s, the Leningrad Air Defence Force was formed
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Angliiskaya Embankment
ANGLIISKAYA EMBANKMENT, from 1738 - Beregovaya Nizhnaya Embankment Street, in the mid-to-late 18th century - Isaakievskaya Embankment, Galernaya Embankment, and Anglinskaya Embankment, from 1800s - Angliiskaya Embankment
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Apraksin F.M., (1661-1728), Admiral
APRAKSIN Fedor Matveevich (1661-1728), Count (1709), General Admiral (1708), statesman and military officer, associate of Tsar Peter the Great. Brother of P.M. Apraksin and Tsarina Marfa, wife of Tsar Fedor Alexeevich
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Aurora, cruiser
AURORA first rank cruiser was founded in 1897 at the New Admiralty dockyard, and became part of the Baltic Fleet in 1903. It weighed over 6,700 tons (in 1917 - 7
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Baltic Shipping Company
BALTIC SHIPPING COMPANY (BSC). The history of BSC (5 Mezhevoy Canal) goes back to the foundation of St. Petersburg-Lubeck Shipping Society in 1830; its present-day name was given in 1922. By 1941 BSC had 20 ships
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Bellinsgauzen F.F. (1778-1852), navigator
BELLINSGAUZEN Faddey Fadeevich (1778-1852, Kronstadt), navigator, Admiral (1843). In 1797 graduated from the Naval Cadet School (17 Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment; memorial plaque); served in the Baltic Fleet
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Bering V.I., (1681-1741),navigator
BERING Vitus Ionassen (1681-1741), navigator, Commandor Captain (1730), originally from Denmark. From 1704 signed up for the Russian Fleet, served in the Baltic and Azov fleets. After retirement (1724) was summoned by Peter the Great to St
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Birzhevye Vedomosti (The Stock-Exchange Gazette), 1880-1917
BIRZHEVYE VEDOMOSTI (The Stock-Exchange Gazette). 1) A daily commercial, political and literary newspaper. It was founded in 1861 as a merger of the Kommercheskaya Gazeta and Zhurnal Dlya Aktsionerov. Financier and entrepreneur K. V
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Botik of Peter the Great
BOTIK OF PETER THE GREAT, botik (little boat) named “The St. Nicholas,” constructed in England in the 1640s, had belonged to the grandfather of Tsar Peter the Great, boyar N.I. Romanov
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Breaking of the Siege (1943)
BREAKING OF THE SIEGE 1943, 12 - 30 January, an offensive operation, code named "Iskra" (Sparkle), along the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts by Baltic Fleet forces in the region of the Schlisselburg-Sinyavino heights
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Butakov G.I. (1820-1882), Admiral
BUTAKOV Grigory Ivanovich (1820-82, St. Petersburg), Admiral (1878), creator of the steam armoured fleet tactics. Graduated from the Naval Cadet School (1836; now 47 Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment; memorial plaque)
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Centrobalt (Baltic Fleet Central Committee)
CENTROBALT (Baltic Fleet Central Committee), elected body, set up on 28-30 April (11-13 May).1917 in Helsingfors (Baltic Fleet headquarters). The first membership of Centrobalt included 33 people; the chairman was Bolshevik P.E. Dybenko
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Chichagov V.Y.(1728-1809) Admiral
CHICHAGOV Vasily Yakovlevich (1728-1809, St. Petersburg), Admiral. Graduated from the School of Mathematics and Navigational Sciences (1742), completed an internship in the British Navy, from 1745 served in the Baltic Fleet
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Constituent Assembly, All-Russian
ALL-RUSSIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, a body of representatives established on the basis of universal suffrage in order to form a government and draft a Constitution for Russia
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Cruys К.I. (1657-1727), Admiral
CRUYS Kornely Ivanovich (Kornelius) (1657-1727, St. Petersburg), associate of Emperor Peter the Great, one of the founders of the Russian fleet, Admiral (1721), a Dane
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Drozd V.P.(1906-1943) Vice Admiral
DROZD Valentin Petrovich (1906-1943), Soviet military commander, Vice Admiral (1941). Graduated from Frunze Military Naval Academy (1928). In 1938-40, served as commander of the Northern Fleet
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Dybenko P.E. (1889-1939), revolutionary, statesman
DYBENKO Pavel Efimovich (1889-1938), Soviet military officer and party figure. Army commander of the second rank (1935). In 1911 he was conscripted into the Baltic Fleet
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Essen N.O. (1860-1915), Admiral
ESSEN Nikolay Ottovich (1860-1915) Admiral (1913). Graduated with honours from the Naval Cadet School (1880) and completed the admiralty course of the Nikolaevskaya Naval Academy (1891)
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Great Northern War of 1700-21
GREAT NORTHERN WAR OF 1700-21 was the war declared by a coalition of states from Central and Eastern Europe (the main participants were Russia, Denmark and Saxony) against Sweden
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Greigh S.K. (1735-1788),Admiral
GREIGH Samuil Karlovich (Samuel) (1735-1788), naval commander, Admiral (1782), honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1783). A Scot, from 1764 served in the Russian army with the rank of captain
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Guards' Case
GUARDS' CASE (Spring case), one from the series of cases fabricated by the Joint State Political Administration Board against former officers of Imperial and White Armies
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Industry (entry)
INDUSTRY was one of the most important parts of the economy of St. Petersburg, developing concurrently with the city and growing along. Due to the country’s foreign policy and geography
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Isakov I.S.(1894-1967), Аdmiral
ISAKOV Ivan Stepanovich (1894-1967), Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet (1955), Hero of the Soviet Union (1965), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1958), Doctor of Naval Sciences (1946)
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Kornilov Affair
KORNILOV AFFAIR (Kornilov's Advance, in Soviet literature - Kornilov's Revolt and "Kornilovshchina"), an attempt by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief General L.G. Kornilov in August (September) 1917 to avert the seizure of power by left-wing radicals
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Kotlin, Island
KOTLIN, is an island in the east of the Neva Bay, in the Gulf of Finland. It is 23 kilometres west of Vasilievsky Island, 12 kilometres southwest of Gorskaya, and six kilometres north of Lomonosov
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Kronstadt
KRONSTADT, a town on Kotlin Island, 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg. The town's history traces back to a sea fort called Kronslot built in the winter of 1703-04. By May 1704, two batteries were constructed along the south bank
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Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921
KRONSTADT REBELLION OF 1921 (in official Soviet historiography, Kronstadt Mutiny). An armed uprising by the Kronstadt garrison and a number of ships from the Baltic Fleet, lasting from 1-18 March 1921, aimed against Bolshevik rule
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Kronstadt Rebellions of 1905-1906
KRONSTADT REBELLIONS of 1905-1906, mass armed demonstration by Kronstadt sailors and soldiers in the period of the Revolution of 1905-07. The Rebellion of 1905 was preceded by a spontaneous demonstration made by the garrison in September of the same
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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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Lazarev M.P. (1788-1851), admiral
LAZAREV Mikhail Petrovich (1788-1851), navigator, admiral (1843). Graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1803 (17 Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, memorial plaque installed), and was sent on scholarship to Great Britain
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