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2005 FCSL season

In the championship game, played for the first time at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, Zephyrhills defeated Sanford 2-1 to capture the franchise's first FCSL title.

2008 Qatar Open

The men's singles field was led by ATP No. 4, US Open semifinalist and Moscow champion Nikolay Davydenko, Metz titlist Tommy Robredo, and St. Petersburg winner and 2007 Doha runner-up Andy Murray.

2013 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

Hinchcliffe dedicated his victory to the memory of Dan Wheldon, who had signed a deal to drive the Go Daddy car he was in on the morning of his death in the crash at Las Vegas.

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky

Count Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky (1852, St. Petersburg - 1927, Grasse) was a Russian historian and nationalist politician.

Alexandra Gallitzin

A few days before his death on January 18, 1840 he wrote: "This holy woman with her strict positivity diminished the sweetness of Christian charity, but she will always have a holy influence on my soul, and I love and admire her enormously."↵The poet died on September 11, 1840 at the age of 60 in his home in St. Petersburg, was buried in Paris, at Montmartre Cemetery.

Augustus Caesar Buell

He later claimed that a visit to St. Petersburg in Russia on behalf of Cramp's, a few years later, enabled him to find important material for his first biographical project, the life of John Paul Jones.

Blanche d'Antigny

She became the mistress of the Russian police chief Mesentzov who took her to St. Petersburg and, when she was forced to leave Russia by special order of the Tsarina, to Wiesbaden.

Boris Jordan

In 2001-2003 he was the Director General of the Russian TV channel NTV and also the Director General of Gazprom Media, a subsidiary media holding of Gazprom (now of Gazprombank) that owned NTV, TNT, NTV Plus, five popular radio stations (including Echo of Moscow), numerous widely circulated news and entertainment publications, and two premier movie theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

December 2005 Saint Petersburg gas incident

Gas was released in St. Petersburg, Russia on December 26, 2005 in an outlet of the Maksidom home supply store chain on Moskovsky Prospect.

Ed Cartwright

Edward Charles "Jumbo" Cartwright (October 6, 1859 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania – September 3, 1933 in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a Major League Baseball First baseman from 1890 to 1897.

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.

Expedition Trophy

The race follows the route Murmansk - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Yekaterinburg - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok, with teams being eliminated at the end of each stage, and the total journey taking 13 days.

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.

Gary R. Mormino

Gary R. Mormino is a historian, author, columnist at the Tampa Tribune and Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History and co-director (with Raymond Arsenault) of the Florida Studies Program at University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Georg Huth

In 1897 he undertook a journey to Siberia for the purpose of studying Tungusic, receiving a subvention from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg.

George Davenport

In the fall of 1803, shortly after arriving with a cargo from Liverpool, Davenport was arrested with the rest of his crew while in port at St. Petersburg when the Czarist Russian government acceded to Napoleon's embargo on British vessels (the "Continental System").

Gleb Kotelnikov

In 1912, on a road near Tsarskoye Selo (now part of St. Petersburg) Kotelnikov successfully demonstrated the braking effects of the parachute by accelerating a Russo-Balt automobile to the top speed, and then opening a parachute attached to the back seat, thus inventing the drogue parachute.

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.

Harald Riipalu

Harald Riipalu (born as Harald Reibach) (13 February 1912, St. Petersburg – 4 April 1961, Heckmondwike, Great Britain) was an Estonian military commander and one of four such commanders who earned the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross while serving with the German army during World War II.

Helen Magill White

Helen Magill White accompanied her husband when he was appointed to diplomatic posts in St. Petersburg (1892–94) and Berlin (1897–1903).

Horace Günzburg

Baron Horace Günzburg (Baron Goratsii Evzelevich Gintsburg, Барон Гораций Евзелевич Гинцбург, (Naftali-Gerts Evzelevich Gintsburg) February 8, 1833 Zvenigorodka, government (guberniya) of Kiev, Russia – March 2, 1909, St. Petersburg, buried in Paris) was a Russian philanthropist.

J. W. Robinson's

In the 1970s ADG used the Robinson's name to open a new chain of department stores on Florida's Gulf Coast, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, starting with a store at Tyrone Square Mall in 1972.

Jack Gosnell

He has served as a Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing, China, as US Consul General in St. Petersburg, Russia and as Counselor for Science and Technology at the US Embassy in Moscow.

Jeff Conine

Though sidelined for two months by the accident, he still managed to compete in the Ironman as well as the St. Anthony's 32 mile Olympic-style race in St. Petersburg, Florida, the half Ironman at Disney and the Timberman 70.3 in New Hampshire.

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).

Keith Kerr

On November 29, 2007, Kerr submitted a YouTube video that was used as a question in the Republican Presidential Debate in St. Petersburg, Florida on CNN.

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

Born into a petite noble family in Abasha in western Georgian province of Mingrelia, then under the Imperial Russian rule, Gamsakhurdia received early education at the Kutaisi gymnasium and then studied in St. Petersburg, where he quarreled with Nicholas Marr.

Leopold van Gilse van der Pals

Leopold van Gilse van der Pals (St. Petersburg 4 July 1884 – Dornach 7 February 1966) was a composer and the brother of musicologist Nicolaï van Gilse van der Pals.

Ludmilla Radchenko

In 1997 she was elected Miss Congeniality at the national Miss Russia beauty pageant, with television appearances in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst

Other museums and institutions bearing the name Ludwig are located in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Koblenz, Cologne, Oberhausen, Saarlouis, Beijing, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Havana.

Mr. Messiah

He is an important figure in the St. Petersburg Dubstep and Breakcore scenes and he is also closely affiliated with Russia’s glitch, IDM, Hardcore techno, music scenes.

Nanday Parakeet

Caged birds have been released in some areas and the birds have established self-sustaining populations in Los Angeles, California, San Antonio, Texas, and several areas of Florida (including St. Petersburg, Broward County, and Miami-Dade County).

Paths of Possession

Paths of Possession entered Mana Recording Studios / Razzor Media in St. Petersburg, Florida to record Promises in Blood, with renowned metal producer Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Soilent Green, Into the Moat).

Paul List

He drew a match (+4 –4 =1) with Grigory Levenfish in 1910, he tied for 3rd place at Odessa 1910 (Boris Verlinsky won), tied for 15-16th at St. Petersburg 1911 (Stepan Levitsky won), and tied for fourth with Ilya Rabinovich in the seventh All-Russian Masters' Tournamenr (Hauptturnier) at Vilna 1912, Lithuania (then Russian Empire).

Peter Petrovich Troyanskii

He finished a parish school in Orenburg and passed gymnasia examinations without attending classes, after which he entered the University of St. Petersburg.

Pinellas Army Airfield

Today, the airport is St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, a joint civil-military commercial airport that is also home to Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater and a U.S. Army Reserve Army Aviation Support Facility.

Revaz Gabashvili

Briefly fleeing police persecution to Paris, he returned in 1907 and enrolled in the University of St. Petersburg, from where he was excluded on charges of being involved in students’ disorders in 1910.

Saraband

While Henrik is away tending to the orchestra he conducts in Uppsala, Johan has a private meeting with Karin, informing her of a proposal from Ivan Chablov, head conductor in the St. Petersburg orchestra and an old friend of Johan, that Karin join him at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Stepan Balmashov

Stepan Balmashov was the assassin of Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Sipyagin, whom he shot on April 2, 1902 (O.S.) in the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg.

Stojan Novaković

He was sent as the Serbian envoy to Constantinople, considered, along with Vienna and St. Petersburg, as one of the most important posts in that period.

Tampa Bay Water

The member governments that make up the board of directors are: The cities of New Port Richey, St. Petersburg, Florida, and Tampa, and Hillsborough County, Pasco County and Pinellas County.

Tartu County

Economic development of the region was further encouraged by the construction of the railway connecting Tartu with Tallinn, Riga and St. Petersburg.

The Man from St. Petersburg

In the final chapter, Winston Churchil - at the time First Lord of the Admiralty and having recent experience as Home Secretary - arrives on the scene and formulates a comprehensive plan for damage control: Disposing of Feliks' body, hiding that such a person ever existed and regretfully informing the Czar that his nephew died in the fire but had already signed the treaty.

Tim Holmes

He was the first American artist ever invited to exhibit solo at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1993 to 1994, where three of his sculptures remain on permanent exhibit.

Vitali Chilyushkin

Chilyushkin made his debut in the Russian Premier League on 2 May 2010 for FC Saturn Moscow Oblast in the game against Zenit.

Wiktor Thommée

After graduating from trade schools in Lida and Dyneburg (modern Daugavpils, Latvia), in 1901 he joined an officers' school in St. Petersburg.

Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov

She served as an otolaryngology doctor at St. Petersburg's Conservatory.


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