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49 unusual facts about Saint Petersburg


Aleksander Zederbaum

Aleksander Ossypovich Zederbaum (born in Zamość, August 27, 1816; died in Saint Petersburg, September 8, 1893) was a Polish-Russian Jewish journalist.

Alexander Rumyantsev

His wife survived him by 40 years, and entertained Saint Petersburg society with the stories of her acquaintance with Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, and the Duke of Marlborough.

Alexei Strolman

Strolman received his education from the mining cadet school in St. Petersburg, and began publishing on mining and geological topics as early as 1835.

Andrei Kivinov

Kivinov was born in Leningrad, and grew up in the Krasnoselsky District.

After graduating from the Interior Ministry's training course, he was assigned to the 64th Precinct of the Kirov District's Police Department.

Buckingham Friends School

The first school partnership began with School #213 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Diaphanometopus

It is known from the Lower Ordovician of Russia (Oeland series, Pavlovsk).

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia

The couple lived in some of the most luxurious palaces of the Empire: Pavlovsk, Strelna, and the Marble Palace.

Great Fire of Tartu

The buildings had to be built of wood as the Tsar had laid orders that no stone buildings were to be built anywhere except in the new Russian capital St. Petersburg.

Gregory Shuvalov

His initial education was in the Jesuit hostel in Saint Petersburg, since 1817 he studied in Switzerland and Italy.

Herzen University

Located in Saint Petersburg, it operates 20 faculties and more than 100 departments.

History of rail transport in Russia

It was 17 km long and linked the Imperial Palaces at Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk.

International Management Institute of Saint Petersburg

International Management Institute of Saint Petersburg (IMISP; Санкт-Петербургский международный институт менеджмента; ИМИСП) is a management school in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Komarovo

Komarovo, Saint Petersburg, a municipal settlement under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg, Russia

Krikor Azaryan

He graduated from what is today the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia in 1966 and was a post-graduate student in Moscow and Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) in the Soviet Union.

Leningrad State University named after Pushkin

Pushkin Leningrad State University (Russian: Ленинградский государственный университет имени А.С. Пушкина) is a university in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg.

Levashovo

Levashovo, Saint Petersburg, a municipal settlement in Vyborgsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia

Ligovo

It was included into Kirovsky District, and in April 1973 it was transferred to Krasnoselsky District.

It is part of Uritsk Municipal Okrug, Krasnoselsky District.

Mikhail Tushmalov

The first performance of Tushmalov's orchestration was conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg on November 30, 1891.

Mykhailo Kravchenko

The Russian Geographical Society invited Kravchenko to Saint Petersburg to take part in an artisans exhibition in 1902.

Nikolai Sergeevich Borchsenius

Nikolai Sergeevich Borchsenius (Николай Сергеевич Борхсениус) (20 October 1906 Saint Petersburg - 5 May

Nikolay Burenin

In the Krasnogvardeysky District of Saint Petersburg is a street named after Burenin.

Ostap Veresai

In February 1875, Veresai was invited by the ethnographic sector of the Russian Geographical Society to Saint Petersburg.

Peacock Clock

Today it is a prominent exhibit in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

Princess Milica of Montenegro

Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and Princess Milica were married on 26 July 1889 in Saint Petersburg.

Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise

Pulkovo Federal State Unified Aviation Service Company (ФГУАП “Пулково”) was an airline with its head office in Moskovsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Roman Catholicism in Finland

The Parish of Turku was established in 1926, and in 1927 the Parish of Terijoki.

Sadovaya Street

The section from the Moika to Gorokhovaya Street belongs to the Central District of the city, and the rest, to the Admiralteysky District.

Şahin Giray

Following this rebuke Russia launched a surprise attack on the Crimea forcing the Khan to send envoys to Saint Petersburg to sue for peace.

Saint Petersburg Ring Road

The first freeway section of the Ring Road connecting the north terminus of the dam, near the Gorskaya train station, with the northern outskirts of St. Petersburg at Vyborgsky District was opened on December 26, 2002.

Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University

Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (ETU) (Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет) founded in 1886, and is one of the oldest higher education institutions in Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics

Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет сервиса и экономики) is a university in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg University of Economics, Culture and Business Administration

Saint Petersburg University of Economics, Culture and Business Administration (Санкт-Петербургский Институт Экономики, Культуры и Делового Администрирования Sankt Peterburgskiy institut ekonomiki kultury i delovogo administrirovaniya), abbreviated as EKIDA (ЭКИДА), is a private institution of higher education based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Sergey Vyazmitinov

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Shushary

Shushary, Saint Petersburg, a municipal settlement under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg, Russia

St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications

Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (Abbreviation: SPbSUT) (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет телекоммуникаций) is one of the major research and educational centers of Russia as well as a leading technical university located in Saint Petersburg.

Tatar State University of Humanities and Education

They included the Kazan State Pedagogical University, the third oldest pedagogical university in Russia, after Moscow State Pedagogical University and Hertzen Russian State Pedagogical University in Saint Petersburg.

The State Museum of the History of St. Peterburg

The State Museum of the History of St. Peterburg (Rus. Государственный музей истории Санкт-Петербурга), formerly Museum of Leningrad History from 1955 to 1991, is a museum of the city history in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Timeline of the Great Purge

;May 23: Politburo decree exiling from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev all persons ever excluded from the Communist Party for the relations with opposition and all family members of persons imprisoned for more than five years.

Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren

The Bogd Khan then dispatched him to Saint Petersburg in July 1911 as part of a delegation to seek Russian and West European support for Mongolian independence.

Trezzini

Domenico Giovanni Trezzini (1670, Astano - 1734 Saint Petersburg), also russified to Andrey Yakimovich Trezin or Andrey Petrovich Trezin, was the first Ticino architect to settle in Russia, notable for development of Petrine Baroque and building Saint Petersburg's first stone structures.

Ushkovo

Ushkovo, Saint Petersburg, a municipal settlement under jurisdiction of the city of St.

Vissarion Lominadze

From 1920 to 1921 he was a member of the Bureau of the Oryol regional committee of the party, and from 1921 to 1922 a party organizer in the Vyborg district of Petrograd, where he was involved in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion.

Vladimir Kappel

He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Page Corps and then from the Nikolayevskoye Cavalry School and Nikolayevskaya Academy of the General Staff.

Volksdeutsche

He also brought in German engineers to supervise the construction of the new city of Saint Petersburg.

Vosstaniya Square

Administratively, the Vosstaniya Square falls under the authority of the Tsentralny District.

Zelenogorsk

Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg, a municipal town in Russia under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg

Zinaida Nikolaievna Yusupova

Princess Zinaida Nikolaievna Yusupova (September 2, 1861, Saint Petersburg, Russia - November 24, 1939, Paris, France) was the daughter of Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov (October 12, 1827, Moscow - July 31, 1891, Baden Baden), Marshal of the Imperial Court, and Countess Tatiana Alexandrovna de Ribeaupierre (June 29, 1828 - January 14, 1879).


Ada Sari

In the spring of 1914 Sari embarked on a lengthy concert tour of Russia with a group of Italian singers which included extended stays in Moscow and Saint Petersburg for opera performances at the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres.

Aleksey Gornostayev

He joined state service as a junior clerk in 1823 in his home town of Ardatov, relocated to Saint Petersburg in 1826, retired in 1827 and lived by drawing advertising boards and later illustrations for Svinyin publishing house.

Andrey Yuryevich Tatarinov

December 4 after the polls closed on election to the State Duma art community organized on the Blue Bridge Saint Isaac's Square street theater performance "Antibes", based on the novel "The Possessed" by Dostoyevsky and supported by Sergei Bugaev Afrika and the Faculty of Arts of Saint Petersburg State University (Dean — Valery Gergiev).

Asaphida

This line is found in the Middle Ordovician Asery Level deposits of the Volkhov River region near Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Baltika Breweries

Today, Baltika is the largest Fast-moving consumer goods producer in Russia and has production facilities in 10 Russian cities (Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Tula, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Khabarovsk).

Benjamin Bilse

The orchestra became increasingly popular, Bilse toured Europe and gave guest concerts in Saint Petersburg, Riga, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Vienna, as well as at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where his band performed The Blue Danube together with Johann Strauss II.

Blank family

On 10 July 1820, in Saint Petersburg, two sons of Moshe: Abel and Srul were baptized in the Orthodox Christianity.

Carl Frederik Sørensen

His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg, London and Athens.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Chernihiv

The area in general was ruled by the Governor-General appointed from Saint Petersburg, the imperial capital, and Chernihiv was the capital of local namestnichestvo (province) (from 1782), Malorosiyskaya or Little Russian (from 1797) and Chernigov Governorate (from 1808).

Eleonora de Cisneros

Between 1900 and 1906 she sang in more than 40 operatic roles in Rome, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon, Vienna, St. Petersburg, London, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney and Melbourne.

Elim Pavlovich Demidov, 3rd Prince of San Donato

In Saint Petersburg on 18 April 1893 he married Countess Sophia Hilarionovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (Novo Temnikovo, 9 August 1870 - Athens, 16 April 1953), by whom he had no issue.

Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky

One of his pieces, Portrait of an Unknown Woman in a Violet Dress, is in the Collections of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and several others are in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Friends of Seagate Inc.

Freeman Horton was an accomplished engineer who was best known for building the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge across Tampa Bay from Saint Petersburg in Pinellas County through the waters of Hillsborough County to Tiera Ceia in Manatee County that replaced a ferry service between the two land areas.

Georg Kuphaldt

Some of the most renowned works of Kuphaldt are the gardens of the Winter Palace and Oranienbaum in Saint Petersburg as well as locations in Nizhny Novgorod, Dagomys in Sochi, Tsarskoye Selo and Catharinenthal Palace in Reval (now Tallinn).

Grigoriy Kirdetsov

Fall 1917, he evacuated his nephew, the Count Constantin Pavlovich Borodin (Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia October 20 1907- Brussels, Belgium, March 28 2007) from Saint Petersburg.

Hajibala Abutalybov

In 1969, he was enrolled in post graduate program at Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Haltern–Venlo railway

With the connection of the Boxtel Railway to the bridge over the Rhine at Wesel before the First World War, a long-distance connection was established on the (London–) Vlissingen–Wesel–OsnabrückBerlin–Eydtkuhnen (now Chernyshevskoye)–Saint Petersburg route.

Hermann Blau

The Augsburg-based company operated later on with Riedinger under the name the German Blau gas company which controlled factories in Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Saint Petersburg, the United States, Canada and Cuba.

History of figure skating

International figure skating competitions began appearing in the late 19th century—in 1891, the European Championships were inaugurated in Hamburg, Germany, and in 1896, the first World Championships were held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

Ippolit Monighetti

In the 1870s, Monighetti designed new interiors for the Skierniewice Palace (near Warsaw), Anichkov Palace and the Yusupov Palace (both in Saint Petersburg).

Irwin B. Laughlin

He was second secretary to the American legation in Peking in 1907, and then served in a similar capacity in Saint Petersburg, Athens, Montenegro, and Paris.

Ivan Morozov

After the Bolshevik Revolution his art collection was nationalized and divided between the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad.

Jerzy Wołkowicki

He belonged to higher nobility of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in 1901 he graduated from a high school in Grodno, and soon afterwards joined the Marine Corps school in Saint Petersburg.

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano

Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57).

Kasli iron sculpture

Many of world wide known historical artistic sculptures and figures at Moscow and Saint Petersburg - and even iron made furniture at Winter palace - was produced at Kasli factory.

Louis Antoine de Poirot

He was also in charge of the translations between Latin and Manchu for the diplomatic correspondence between Pekin and Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Mark Kirnarsky

Mark Abramovich Kirnarsky (June 8, 1893, Pogar–1941, Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet cover artist of Jewish descent.

Modest Ivanovitch Bogdanovich

Modest Ivanovitch Bogdanovich (russ. Модест Иванович Богданович; 26 August / 7 September 1805 – 25 July / 6 August 1882, Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian lieutenant-general and military historian.

Nikolay Yevseyev

He graduated from the Lesgaft University of Physical Education in Saint Petersburg, where he was coached by Gennadi Touretski.

Passport system in the Soviet Union

The document declared that all citizens at least sixteen years old residing in cites, towns, and urban workers' settlements, as well as residing within one hundred kilometres of Moscow and Leningrad, within fifty kilometres of Kharkov, Kiev, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok and within the hundred-kilometre zone along the Western border of the USSR were required to have a passport with propiska.

Povarskaya Street

When Peter I established his new capital city in Saint Petersburg, this court sloboda depopulated, and the street was re-settled by nobles again, housing families including Gagarin, Golitsyn, Suvorov and the court of Peter's sister, princess Natalya Alexeevna (1673–1716).

Sebastian Vrancx

He is also represented with several drawings or paintings at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Harvard University Art Museums, the Louvre, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville and several other museums.

Stojan Novaković

He was also one of the most successful and skilled Serbian diplomats, holding the post of envoy to Constantinople, Vienna and Saint Petersburg.

T-26

The T-19 8-ton light infantry tank, developed by S. Ginzburg under that programme at the Bolshevik Plant in Leningrad, was a competitor to the British Vickers 6-Ton.

Tolib Shakhidi

The musical pieces of the composer have been performed by such orchestras as Philadelphia & Boston Symphony Orchestra, State Symphonic Orchestra of USSR, Orchestra of Valery Gergiev, Bolshoy Symphonic Orchestra of Russia n.a. Tchaikovsky, Orchestra of Cinematography conducted by Sergei Skripka, Saint Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra n.a Dmitri Shostakovich.

Udaff

Udaff.com started in 2001 as a brainchild of Dmitry Sokolovsky, an electrical engineer from Saint Petersburg, nicknamed "Udav" (Удав, translated as "boa").

Venice for Lovers

Several European cities have been compared to Venice: The Breton city Nantes has been called The Venice of the West, while the nickname The Venice of the North has been variously applied to Amsterdam, Birmingham, Bornholm, Bruges, Haapsalu, Maryhill, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm.