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Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 92
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Confectioner's Shops (entry)
CONFECTIONER'S SHOPS. Public food-service establishments where coffee, chocolate, ice-cream, fruits, and other sweets were served. Since the early 1810s, confectioner's shops gradually replaced "sweet shops," offering various sweets for take-away
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Exchanges
EXCHANGES, regular wholesale markets where goods or securities are sold are called commodity exchanges and stock exchanges, respectively. The first Russian exchange, which remained the only exchange till the late 18th century
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Knowledge, publishing house, 1898-1913
KNOWLEDGE (Znanie), a publishing house established in 1898 by K.P. Pyatnitsky as a joint-stock company of writers, which included V.A. Posse, D.D. Protopopov, O.N. Popova, V.I. Charnolusky, and G.A. Falborg
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Radio (entry)
RADIO. The first radio transmitter (lightning detector) was demonstrated by А. S. Popov in 1895 at St. Petersburg University. In 1900 Russia's first radio workshop started operations in Kronstadt
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