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Levashovo, settlement
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Levashovskaya Pustosh
LEVASHOVSKAYA PUSTOSH, a tract of land in the vicinity of the Levashovo Railway Station (135 Gorskoe Highway), one of the cemeteries for political victims born in Leningrad
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Levchenko G.I, (1897-1981), Admiral
LEVCHENKO Gordey Ivanovich (1897-1981), Admiral (1944). From 1913 served in the Baltic Fleet. Graduated from the Naval Cadet School (1914), completed Courses of Artillery Corporals in Kronstadt (1916)
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Levinson E.A. (1894-1968), architect
LEVINSON Evgeny Adolfovich (1894-1968, Leningrad), architect and artist, Associate of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (from 1941), Doctor of Architecture (1946)
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Levinson-Lessing F.Y., (1861-1939), geologist
LEVINSON-LESSING Franz Yulievich (1861-1939), petrographer, Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1925). Graduated from the Faculty of Physics Mathematical of the University of St
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Levinson-Lessing V.F. (1893-1972, Leningrad), museum worker
LEVINSON-LESSING Vladimir Franzevich (1893-1972, Leningrad), museum worker, art historian, professor (1940). The son of F.Y. Levinson-Lessing. Studied at Forestry School and Tenishevsky School
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Levitsky D.G., (1735-1822), Artist
LEVITSKY Dmitry Grigorievich (1735-1822, St. Petersburg) artist. He was a master of gala and chamber portrait paintings. He studied in Kiev under his father, Ukrainian graphic artist K. G. Levitsky (Nos) and A. P
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Levitsky N.A. (1911-1982), film director
LEVITSKY Nikolay Alexeevich (1911-1982, Leningrad), documentary film director, People's Artist of the USSR in 1982. After graduating from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1936
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Levitsky S.L. (1819-1898), photographer
LEVITSKY Sergey Lvovich (1819-98, St. Petersburg) is one of the founders of photography in Russia. In 1840s he studied the basics of photography in Paris. In 1849
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Libraries (entry)
LIBRARIES. The first library of St. Petersburg was founded in 1714 by the decree of Tsar Peter the Great as His Majesty’s Library; later on, it formed the basis of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Library for the Blind
LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND of St. Petersburg State Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg Administration (8 Shamsheva Street), founded in 1927 as a library of the House of the Blind
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Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
LIBRARY OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (BAN) (1 Birzhevaya Line), founded in 1714 by the decree of Peter the Great as His Majesty’s Library (also called public and state library)
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Lidval F.I., (1870-1945), architect
LIDVAL Fedor Ivanovich (Iogan Friedrich) (1870, St. Petersburg - 1945), architect. Descendant of Swedish emigrants. Lidval graduated from the Academy of Arts (1896), a Fellow of the Academy of Architecture from 1909
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Lidval, House of
LIDVAL, HOUSE OF (1-3 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, / 5 Malaya Posadskaya Street), a modernist architectural monument. The building was constructed in 1899-1904 by architect F.I. Lidval on land that belonged to his mother I. B. Lidval
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Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge
LIEUTENANT SCHMIDT BRIDGE (in 1850-55 Blagoveshchensky, in 1855-1918 Nikolaevsky, in memory of Emperor Nicholas I). It was the first permanent bridge built over the Bolshaya Neva River, linking Truda Square (formerly Blagoveshchenskaya
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Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment
LIEUTENANT SCHMIDT EMBANKMENT (until 1887, the Bolshaya Neva Embankment; until 1918, the Nikolaevskaya Embankment), on the right bank of the Bolshaya Neva River, between Seventh Line and Twenty Third Line of Vasilievsky Island. Named after P.P
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Life Company
LIFE COMPANY, a separate extra-privileged guard unit. Ordered by Empress Elizaveta Petrovna in 1741, formed of the Grenadier Company of the Preobrazhensky Life Guard Regiment. The company assisted her seizure of the throne on 25 November 1741
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Lifting of the Siege, 1944
LIFTING THE SIEGE. Part of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45; the complete liquidation and annihilation of all military threats to Leningrad, and the restoration of normal functioning of city communications
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Lights, the Publishing House, 1909-1922
LIGHTS was a joint-stock publishing company. It was founded in 1909 by critic and publicist E. A. Lyatsky. It was situated at 80 Fontanka Embankment. The editorial board included B. L. Modzalevsky, V. I. Sreznevsky, P. E. Shchegolev
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Ligovo, village
LIGOVO, a historical district in the south-west of St. Petersburg, between Peterhofskoye Highway, Marshala Zhukova Avenue, Baltiiskaya Railway Line and the Ivanovka River
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Ligovsky Avenue
IGOVSKY AVENUE, running between Nekrasova Street and Moskovsky Avenue. Known as Ligovskaya Street until 1956. Constructed along the Ligovsky Canal track (hence the name) starting in 1891
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Ligovsky Canal
LIGOVSKY CANAL was constructed to supply drinking water to St. Petersburg under the project of Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev in 1718-21. Originally, it was 23 km long, 2-4 meters bottom-wide and 1-2 meters deep
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Likhachev B.S. (1902-1934), cinema historian
LIKHACHEV Boris Sergeevich (1902, St. Petersburg - 1934, Leningrad), cinema historian. He studied at Petrograd Theatre College in 1917-18. He worked as an actor at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in 1919 but was drafted into the army
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Likhachev D.S., (1906-1999), literary historian
LIKHACHEV Dmitry Sergeevich (1906 - 1999, St. Petersburg), philologist and cultural historian, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1970), Hero of Socialist Labor (1986), Honorary Citizen of St
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Likhachev N.P., (1862-1936), historian
LIKHACHEV Nikolay Petrovich (1862-1936, Leningrad), historian, archivist, art historian, bibliography expert, collector, specialist in historical studies, Associate of the St
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Lines of Communication, Chief Administration for
LINES OF COMMUNICATION, CHIEF ADMINISTRATION FOR, a central public institution in charge of construction and maintenance of communication routes on water and land
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Lines of Vasilievsky Island (entry)
LINES Of VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, the historical name of a number of parallel streets that intersect Vasilievsky Island from the south to the north: First to Twenty-Ninth Lines, Birzhevaya Line, Kozhevennaya Line, Kosaya Line, Mendeleevskaya Line
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Linnik V.P., (1889-1984), mathematician
LINNIK Vladimir Pavlovich (1889-1984, Leningrad), physicist, Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Kiev
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Linnik Y.V. (1914/15-1972), physicist
LINNIK Yury Vladimirovich (1915-72, Leningrad), mathematician, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1964), Hero of Socialist Labour (1969). The son of V.P. Linnik
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Lishnevsky A.L., (1868-1942), architect
LISHNEVSKY Alexander Lvovich (1868-1942), architect, a noted Art Nouveau and Neoclassical artist. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in 1892, and worked in the Ukraine for some time. From 1901, he lived in St. Petersburg
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