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- proper noun Alternative name of
Saint Petersburg .
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Examples
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Since the fall of Communism, the name has once again become Sankt-Peterburg, which is certainly authentic if not non-despotic.
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On October 1, 1991, the city of Leningrad officially regained its original name: Sankt-Peterburg.
'Where the Dead Smiled' Kelly, Aileen 1997
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Sankt-Peterburg: Adamov, E.M. (Kholodnyy), 1905 1 v.: ill.; 33 cm. Milyayev, V. E.,
BibliOdyssey 2010
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Sankt-Peterburg: [Kisnemskiy, S. P.], [1906] 1 v.: 8 p.; ill.; 41 cm. Author: Chepurnyi, S.
BibliOdyssey 2010
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But one can hardly imagine that Sankt-Peterburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/
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Nothing laid bare the latent loathing of Communism, even at its best, in Russia so strikingly as the change by referendum from Leningrad to Sankt-Peterburg.
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So as Ilyich's body was eternalized in embalming fluids (or duplicated in wax, as some skeptics believe) and displayed much like the relics of saints under an impressive mausoleum in Red Square against the Kremlin wall, the city created by the westernizing tsar and named for himself with a western, German name, Sankt-Peterburg, was renamed Leningrad.
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A Vienna-based cotton broker whom I met in Sankt-Peterburg in November, 1991, was negotiating with Uzbeks in Russian.
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It has been said that some people born in Petrograd (as St. Petersburg was renamed with a Slavic calque in World War I) have lived out their lives in Leningrad and will die in Sankt-Peterburg.
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Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.
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