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Internal Defence Belt
INTERNAL DEFENCE BELT, a series of defence constructions. Built in spring - autumn 1942, from the Seaport, to Avtovo, to Volodarsky Village, to Kupchino Station
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Internationalistov Park
INTERNATIONALISTOV PARK is situated in the south part of St. Petersburg, in Kupchino, between Slavy Avenue, Yuzhnoe Freeway, Bukharestskaya Street and Sofiiskaya Street
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Interyerny (Interior) Theatre
INTERYERNY (INTERIOR) THEATRE, State theatre, St. Petersburg, located at 104 Nevsky Prospect, established on 8 June 1988 as a theatre-studio based on a collective contract. Its founder and artistic director was N.V. Belyak, its main designer M.I
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“My friends, our union is beautiful!
It is as the soul, it is indivisible and eternal
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Inzhenernaya Street
INZHENERNAYA STREET, running from Griboedova Canal to Belinskogo Square. The street was named in 1823 after the Principal Engineering College, which was located in the Mikhaylovsky Castle
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Inzhenerny Bridges
INZHENERNY BRIDGES (Engineer’s, two bridges in the district of Engineers' (see Mikhailovsky) Castle (hence the name). The first Engineers' Bridge (formerly Letny Bridge) spans the Moika River, along the Fontanka River
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Ioann of Kronstadt, (Ivan Iliyich Sergiyev)
19 October 1829, Sura Village, the Pinezhsky Uyezd, the Arkhangelsk Guberniya – 20 December 1908, Kronstadt.
A priest, oreacher and philanthropist, Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church
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Ioann (Snychev) (1927-1995), Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga 1990-1995
IOANN (lay name Ivan Matveevich Snychev) (1927-1995, St. Petersburg), Church figure, historian and spiritual writer, Doctor of Theology (1988). In 1944-45, Ioann served in the army
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Ioannovsky Bridge
IOANNOVSKY BRIDGE (until 1887 Petrovsky), over Kronversky Canal to Ioannovskie Gates of the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg's first bridge. Received its name from a timber bridge
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Iofe V.V. (1938 - 2002), historian of nonconformity, public figure.
IOFE Veniamin Viktorovich (1938-2002, St. Petersburg), public figure, historian. Lived in Leningrad since 1938. Graduated from Leningrad Chemical Engineering Institute (1962)
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Ioffe A.F., (1880-1960), physicist
IOFFE Abram Fedorovich (1880-I960, Leningrad), physicist, organiser of science, Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1916), the Russian Academy of Sciences (1920)
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Ioffe Physics-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
IOFFE PHYSICS-TECHNICAL INSTITUTE of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located at 26 Politekhnicheskaya Street, was established in 1918 by academician A. F. Ioffe (a director until 1951, the institute has been named after him since 1960)
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Irinovsky Avenue
IRINOVSKY AVENUE, running from Boksitogorskaya Street to Kommuny Street, one of the major arteries of the Porokhovye area. The avenue runs parallel to the former Irinovskaya Railroad line (hence the name)
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Isaakievsky Bridge
ISAAKIEVSKY BRIDGE, (St. Isaac’s Bridge) the first floating bridge over the Bolshaya Neva, opposite what is now Decembrist Square. It linked Admiralteysky Island with Vasilievsky Island. In 1727, the bridge was first launched
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Isaev V. I., (1854-1911), doctor
ISAEV Vasily Isaevich (1854-1911, St. Petersburg), doctor, microbiologist, Doctor of Medicine (1887). He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Moscow University (1877)
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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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Isidor (Nikolsky) (1799-1892), Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg 1860-1892
ISIDOR (born Iakov Sergeevich Nikolsky) (1799-1892, St. Petersburg), religious figure, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1857). After graduating from St
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Isidore's House for Paupers
ISIDORE'S HOUSE FOR PAUPERS, one of the oldest charitable establishments in St. Petersburg. It was opened in 1823 in Kolomna (present-day 105 Rimskogo-Korsakova Avenue) for care of the poor; it was subordinated to the Imperial Philanthropic society
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Iskra (The Spark), journal, 1858-73
ISKRA (The Spark), a weekly satiric caricature journal, founded in 1859 under the editorship of its publishers: satiric poet V. S. Kurochkin and artist N. A. Stepanov (until 1864)
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Iskusstv Square
ISKUSSTV SQUARE, situated between Inzhenernaya Street and Italyanskaya Street. Known as Mikhaylovskaya Square from 1834 to 1918, then called Lassalya Square until 1940, in memory of German socialist F. Lassal (1825-64)
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Iskusstvo i khudozhestvennaya promyshlennost (Arts and Crafts) journal
ISKUSSTVO I KHUDOZHESTVENNAYA PROMYSHLENNOST, (Arts and Crafts), a monthly illustrated journal. It was published by the Society for the Promotion of Arts in October 1898 - May 1902 under N. P
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Iskusstvo Leningrada (The Leningrad Art), journal
ISKUSSTVO LENINGRADA (The Art of Leningrad), a monthly illustrated journal on politics, social affairs and art publicism. It circulated from July 1989 until April 1991 as an organ of the Ministry for Culture of the Russian Soviet Federative
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Islands (entry)
ISLANDS. A characteristic trait of St. Petersburg is its many islands, as it is located on the Neva River delta. There were 33 islands with official names in St
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Istomina А.I., (1799-1848), ballet dancer
ISTOMINA Avdotya Ilyinichna (1799 - 1848, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer. A student of E. I. Kolosova and C. Didelot, she graduated from the Petersburg Theatre School in 1815. She danced in the Imperial Troupe at St
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Italian Opera
ITALIAN OPERA existed in St. Petersburg in 1733-1914 (intermittently) in two guises: as Italian musical theatre with performances in Italian and as proper Italian operas performed by Russian companies in Russian (from 1781 up to the present moment)
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Italians
ITALIANS, an ethnic community forming a part of the St. Petersburg population. The Italian language belongs to the Romance group of Indo-European languages. Believers are Catholic
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Italyanskaya Street
ITALYANSKAYA STREET, running from Griboedova Canal to the Fontanka River. Known as Bolshaya Italyanskaya Street from 1871 to 1919, then called Rakova Street until 1991
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Italyansky Bridge
ITALYANSKY BRIDGE, over the Griboedova Canal, opposite to Italyanskaya Street (hence the name). Constructed on the site of a ferry station (crossing) in 1896 as a pedestrian bridge (engineer L.N
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Ivan Fedorov
IVAN FEDOROV (11 Zvenigorodskaya Street), an open joint-stock company from 1993. It originated from the printing house of R. Golike and A. Vilborg’s Partnership founded in 1902
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