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SHISHKOV Alexander Semenovich (1754-1841, St. Petersburg), a statesman, military leader, philologist, man of letters, Admiral (1824), Honorary Fellow of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1800)
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Shishkov V.Y. (1873-1945), writer
SHISHKOV Vyacheslav Yakovlevich (1873-1945), writer. In 1891 he graduated from Vyshny Volochek technical school. He started to publish his works from 1908, although he personally considered his literary debut to have occurred in 1912
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Shishmarev V.F., (1875-1957), philologist
SHISHMAREV Vladimir Fedorovich (1875, St. Petersburg - 1957, Leningrad), philologist, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1946. A. N. Veselovsky's student
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Shkipersky Canal
SHKIPERSKY CANAL, built in the 1720s in the west part of Vasilivsky Island, it was named after skippers' settlement that once existed on this site. The canal joins Galley Harbour and Nevsky Bay (reserved for ship navigation)
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Shkipersky Canal
SHKIPERSKY CANAL (Skippers' Canal) (before 1859, Chernaya Rechka (the Black River) or Glukhoy Protok (the Dead Canal), a small river in the western part of Vasilievsky Island
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Shlisselburg Fortress.
SHLISSELBURG FORTRESS (until 1612, named Oreshek, until 1702, Noteborg), an old Russian fortress on Orekhovy Island, at the Neva's headwaters on Lake Ladoga. It was founded by Novgorod residents in 1323
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Shlisselburgsky Bridge
SHLISSELBURGSKY BRIDGE (formerly, Arkhangelogorodsky), across Obvodny Canal, on Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue (formerly Shlisselburgsky Avenue, Arkhangelogorodsky Tract, hence the present-day name). The bridge was built in 1833 (engineer P.P
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Shlyapnikov A.G. (1885-1937), political figure and statesman
SHLYAPNIKOV Alexander Gavrilovich (1885-1937), political figure. Graduated from a third-class professional training school and worked as a lathe turner. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1900
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Shokalsky Y.М., (1856-1940), geographer
SHOKALSKY Yuly Mikhailovich (1856, St. Petersburg - 1940, Leningrad), geographer, corresponding member and honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1923 and 1939, respectively, honoured worker of Science of Russia in 1928
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Shostakovich D.D., (1906-1975), composer
SHOSTAKOVICH Dmitry Dmitrievich (1906, St. Petersburg. - 1975), composer, pianist, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1954), Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Honorary Doctor of Oxford (1958) and of many other foreign universities and academies
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Show-Booth, Cabaret Theatre
SHOW-BOOTH (Balaganchik), the night cabaret theatre, was opened at the Free Comedy theatre in the autumn of 1921, which was established in 1920 by the Petrograd Theatre Society and the Department for Political Enlightenment of the Baltic Fleet
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Shpalernaya Street
SHPALERNAYA STREET, from Gagarinskaya Street to Rastrelli Square. The street was known as First Line until 1727, then was called First Beregovaya Street. In the late 18th century it assumed the name Voskresenskaya Street or Voskresenskaya Embankment
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Shrenk L.I., (1826-1894), ethnographer and geographer
SHRENK Leopold Ivanovich (1826-1894, St. Petersburg), geographer, ethnographer, zoologist, and explorer of Siberia and Far East, member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1865. He graduated from Derpt University in 1850
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Shrovetide carnivals
SHROVETIDE CARNIVALS, mass popular carnivals that took place in the 18th - early 20th centuries during Shrovetide. Along with the Easter carnivals, Shrovetide was the most pompous and crowded of all
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Shubin F. I. (1740-1805), sculptor
SHUBIN (Shubnoy till 1761) Fedot Ivanovich (1740-1805, St. Petersburg), a sculptor. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1759. He was a student in the Academy of Arts in 1761-67, a retainer thereof in Paris in 1767-70 and Rome in 1770-72
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Shulgin D.I. governor-general in 1848-54
SHULGIN Dmitry Ivanovich (1785-1854, St. Petersburg), statesman and combat leader, infantry general (1848). After graduating from the boarding school of Moscow university (1800) he served in the Guards, took part in the Russo-French wars of 1805
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Shushary
SHUSHARY, a municipal unit of Pushkinsky District, 14 kilometres to the south of St. Petersburg, at the intersection of the Russia federal highway and Vitebsk Railway Line (and railway station). The population consists of about 6,000 people (2002)
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Shustov, Smaragd Loginovich (1789-1870), an architect
Smaragd Loginovich Shustov (1789 – 1870, СПб.), an architect. Shustov graduated from the Academy of Arts (1810). Shustov worked as an assistant of an architect of the office of the St Petersburg Military General Governor
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Shuvalov Family
SHUVALOV FAMILY, nobles and counts (since 1746), known since the 16th century. I.I. Shuvalov was a favourite of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna's. His brothers were Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov (1710-71), a Count (1746), statesman
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Shuvalov I.I. (1727-1797), statesman
SHUVALOV Ivan Ivanovich (1727-1797, St Petersburg), count, statesman, Adjutant-General (1760), Chief Chamberlain. Member of the Conference of the Supreme Court
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Shuvalov (Naryshkin) Palace
SHUVALOV (NARYSHKIN) PALACE (21 Fontanka River Embankment), a 19th century architectural monument. The left part of the existing building was constructed in the 1780s in Neoclassical style (unknown architect) for Count I.I. Vorontsov
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Shuvalov P.A. (1827-1889), Chief Policeman
SHUVALOV Peter Andreevich (1827-1889, St. Petersburg), Count, statesman, Cavalry General (1872). He was brought up in the School of Pages in St. Petersburg. Entered military service in 1845, participated in the Crimean war of 1853-56
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Shuvalov Palace
SHUVALOV PALACE (25 Italyanskaya Street), a monument of Baroque architecture (1749-55, architect S.I. Chevakinsky), the private residence of Count I.I. Shuvalov
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Shuvalovo
SHUVALOVO, a locality in the northern part of Saint Petersburg along the banks of Lake Bolshoe (Nizhnee) Suzdalskoe. Shuvalovo is bounded by the Vyborgskoe Highway on the east, adjoining Pargolovo on the north, and Ozerki on the south
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Shuvalovo-Ozerki
SHUVALOVO-OZERKI, the region of large-scale residential development in the north of St. Petersburg, between Vyborgskoe Freeway in the west, the line of circular railway in the north, Svetlanovsky Avenue in the east and Severny Avenue in the south
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Shuvalovskoe Cemetery
SHUVALOVSKOE CEMETERY (106a Vyborgskoe Freeway). Situated in the northern part of St. Petersburg, on the east bank of Nizhnee Suzdalskoe Lake, in the Shuvalovo District
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Shuvalovsky Park
SHUVALOVSKY PARK is located between the village Pargolovo and the Zamanilovka River. It is a landscape architectural monument of the 19th century. The total area of the park is 134.5 hectares
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Siberian Merchant Bank
SIBERIAN MERCHANT BANK, a joint-stock commercial bank, founded in Ekaterinburg in 1872 and in St. Petersburg in 1902. The volume of transactions was high enough for the bank to rank 7th in the country before the war
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Sidlin Osip Abramovich (1909-1972), artist
SIDLIN Osip Abramovich (1909-1972, Leningrad), painter, pedagogue. He graduated from the Leningrad School of Arts (1930), studied in the Highest Artistic and Technical Institute under Alexander Osmerkin and Alexander Savinov
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Sidorov M. K. (1823-1887), explorer of the Russian North, public figure
SIDOROV Mikhail Konstantinovich (1823-1887), entrepreneur, public figure, first-guild merchant. He was a student at Arkhangelskaya Gymnasium but failed to finish the course of studies
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