Leningrad
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- proper noun
- /ˈlɛnɪnˌɡræd/
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Leningrado
- The famous writer Dostoevsky lived and worked in Leningrad during the 19th century.
- Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg
- Leningrad city
We wore gazelles, matching sheepskins, the ushanka miles from Leningrad.
- We wore gazelles, matching sheepskins, the ushanka miles from Leningrad.
- So what little food came into the Soviet Union first, goes into Moscow, Leningrad, all those places, and then comes to the outlying areas.
- Soviet Union lost the Cold War, whether we're talking about Moscow, Leningrad or Saint Petersburg now of Vladivostok.
- And in in Leningrad cultural circles and and that wasn't necessarily a good thing.
Examples
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We met ten years ago in Leningrad, both of us at that time still ignorant of the West.
Fiction book (2002) -
Fortunately, a man who had seen me play arranged for me to study at the Leningrad Conservatory of Music.
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But he leaves for Leningrad any day.
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We were expected in the Leningrad airport at five in the morning.
Fiction book (2002) -
The other day I was in Leningrad.
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So his education came from the streets of Leningrad and from KGB school.
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- He's back at the Institute of Brain Research at the Leningrad University.
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He just arrived from Leningrad.
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More than a million Russian soldiers gave their lives at Leningrad, and a million more of the city’s residents.
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Irina Popandopulo, a Greek girl I knew in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), was studying to become a theater director.
Fiction book (2001)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Leningrad comes from the name Lenin plus the Slavic ending -grad, which means 'city' or 'town', so the name literally means 'Lenin's city'.