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ARTICLES RELATED TO Saint Petersburg - The palaces | | | |  Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractionsThe majestic appearance of St. Petersburg is achieved through a variety of architectural details including long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monuments and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite embankments and bridges, gives the city a unique and striking ambience. These bodies of wate ...
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions The majestic appearance of St. Petersburg is achieved through a variety of architectural details including long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monuments and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite embankments and bridges, gives the city a unique and striking ambience. These bodies of wate ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Leningrad during the Russian S.F.S.R.1918 -1991, Saint Petersburg - Saint Petersburg after 1991, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions |
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Population According to results of the government website, St. Petersburg has 4,560,000 inhabitants. That amounts to roughly 3 percent of the population of Russia as a whole. The average monthly salary 2003 was 6179 rubles (about 176 euros).
Since it was founded, the city has seen strong social contrasts, the situation of many people hardened after the Perestroika. Beggars and old women selling what they brought from the countryside now can be seen frequently. About 15 p ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Population |
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - History Tsar Peter the Great founded the city on May 27 (May 16, Old Style), 1703 after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden. He named it after his patron saint, the apostle Saint Peter. The original name of SanktPiterburh was actually Dutch; Peter had lived and studied in that country for some time. The Swedish fortress of Nyen and later Nöteborg had formerly occupied the site, in the marshlands where the ...
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Transportation The city is a major transport hub. It is the center of the local road and railway system, and has a seaport (in the Gulf of Finland of Baltic Sea) and river ports (in the delta of Neva). It is the terminus of the Volgo-Baltic waterway which links the Baltic with the Black Sea.
Saint Petersburg has regular railway connections to Helsinki, Finland via Vyborg (on the Russian side) and Kouvola and Lahti (on the Finnish side). Three beautiful, old-fashioned trains - the Sibelius, the Repin and the ...
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - History Tsar Peter the Great founded the city on May 27 (May 16, Old Style), 1703 after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden. He named it after his patron saint, the apostle Saint Peter. The original name of SanktPiterburh was actually Dutch; Peter had lived and studied in that country for some time. The Swedish fortress of Nyenskans and the city Nyen had formerly occupied the site, in the marshlands where the ...
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Culture
Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg has always been known for its high-quality cultural life. The world-famous Kirov Theater (known now by its pre-revolution name of Mariinsky Theater) is home to first-class ballet and opera. St. Petersburg's Philharmonic is one of the best in Russia.
St. Petersburg has also been home to the newest movements in modern music. For example, in 1972 mathematics student Boris Grebenshchikov founded the band Aquarium, an underground rock group that grew to huge popularity in the 70s and 80s. St. Petersburg was similarly home t ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Culture |
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Economy The city is a major center of machine building, including power equipment, machinery, shipyards, instrument manufacture, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy (production of aluminium alloys), chemicals, printing, and one of the major ports of the Baltic Sea.
The Saint Petersburg Mint (Monetny Dvor) is apart from Goznak in Moscow the only place in Russia that mints Russian coins, medals and badges.
Ford Motor Company began producing the Ford Focus automobile here in 2002.
Toyota ...
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Culture
Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg has always been known for its high-quality cultural life. The world-famous Kirov Theater (known now by its pre-revolution name of Marinsky Theater) is home to first-class ballet and opera. St. Petersburg's Philharmonic is one of the best in Russia.
St. Petersburg has also been home to the newest movements in modern music. For example, in 1972 mathematics student Boris Grebenshchikov founded the band Aquarium, an underground rock group that grew to huge popularity in the 70s and 80s. St. Petersburg was similarly home t ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Leningrad during the Russian S.F.S.R.1918 -1991, Saint Petersburg - Saint Petersburg after 1991, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Culture |
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Leningrad during the Russian S.F.S.R.1918 -1991 First Secretaries of the Communist Party:
Mar 1918 - Apr 1919:Pyotr Savelyevich Zaslavsky
Apr 1919 - Nov 1919:Moisey Markovich Kharitonov (b. 1887 - d. 1948)
Nov 1919 - Feb 1921:Sergey Semyonovich Zorin (b. 1891 - d. 1937)
21 Feb 1921-14 Dec 1921:Nikolay Aleksandrovich Uglanov(b.1886-d.1937)
15 Dec 1921 - Mar 1922:Ivan Nikitovich Smirnov (b. 1881 - d. 1936)
Mar 1922 - Dec 1925: Pyotr Antonovich Zalutsky (b. 1888 - d. 1937)
Dec 1925 - 7 Jan 1926:Grigory Yeremeyevich Yev ...
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - History Tsar Peter the Great founded the city on May 27 (May 16, Old Style), 1703 after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden. He named it after his patron saint, the apostle Saint Peter. The original name of SanktPiterburh was actually Dutch; Peter had lived and studied in that country for some time. The Swedish fortress of Nyen and later Nöteborg had formerly occupied the site, in the marshlands where the ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Leningrad during the Russian S.F.S.R.1918 -1991, Saint Petersburg - Saint Petersburg after 1991, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - History |
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Saint Petersburg after 1991 Mayor :
Jun 1991 -5 Jun 1996:Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak (b. 1937 -d. 2000)
Governors :
5 Jun 1996 - 16 Jun 2003:Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev (b. 1944)
16 Jun 2003-15 Oct 2003:Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Beglov(acting)(b.1956)
15 Oct 2003 - present: Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko (f) (b. 1949)
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Population According to results of the government website, St. Petersburg has 4,560,000 inhabitants. That amounts to roughly 3 percent of the population of Russia as a whole. The average monthly salary 2003 was 6179 rubles (about 176 euros).
Since it was founded, the city has seen strong social contrasts, the situation of many people hardened after the Perestroika. Beggars and old women selling what they brought from the countryside now can be seen frequently. About 15 p ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Leningrad during the Russian S.F.S.R.1918 -1991, Saint Petersburg - Saint Petersburg after 1991, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Population |
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Economy The city is a major center of machine building, including power equipment, machinery, shipyards, instrument manufacture, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy (production of aluminium alloys), chemicals, printing, and one of the major ports of the Baltic Sea.
The Saint Petersburg Mint (Monetny Dvor) is apart from Goznak in Moscow the only place in Russia that mints Russian coins, medals and badges.
Ford Motor Company began producing the Ford Focus automobile here in 2002.
Toyota ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Leningrad during the Russian S.F.S.R.1918 -1991, Saint Petersburg - Saint Petersburg after 1991, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Economy |
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| | | | Saint Petersburg - The palaces: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Transportation The city is a major transport hub. It is the center of the local road and railway system, and has a seaport (in the Gulf of Finland of Baltic Sea) and river ports (in the delta of Neva). It is the terminus of the Volgo-Baltic waterway which links the Baltic with the Black Sea.
Saint Petersburg has regular railway connections to Helsinki, Finland via Vyborg (on the Russian side) and Kouvola and Lahti (on the Finnish side). Three beautiful, old-fashioned trains - the Sibelius, the Repin and the ...
See also:Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Landmarks and tourist attractions, Saint Petersburg - The palaces, Saint Petersburg - The churches, Saint Petersburg - Public buildings, Saint Petersburg - Public monuments, Saint Petersburg - Suburbs, Saint Petersburg - History, Saint Petersburg - Leningrad during the Russian S.F.S.R.1918 -1991, Saint Petersburg - Saint Petersburg after 1991, Saint Petersburg - Population, Saint Petersburg - Economy, Saint Petersburg - Transportation, Saint Petersburg - Administrative divisions, Saint Petersburg - Culture, Saint Petersburg - Music in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in the movies, Saint Petersburg - St. Petersburg in literature, Saint Petersburg - Notable people, Saint Petersburg - Sister Cities Read more here: » Saint Petersburg: Encyclopedia II - Saint Petersburg - Transportation |
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