Leningrad

Former name for the city of St Petersburg.

On January 26, 1924, five days after Lenin's death, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad. Later some streets and other toponyms were renamed accordingly.
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Olga Bergholz
No one is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten. Let no one forget. Let nothing be forgotten. Никто не забыт и ничто не забыто.
Olga Berggolts

Jerzy Kosiński
In addition, he had a rare first edition of Krylov’s Fables, with Krylov’s own notes handwritten on many of the pages, inserted into Gardiner’s package. The volume had been requisitioned from the private collection of a recently arrested Jewish member of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.
Jerzy Kosiński, Being There

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