Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:36:09 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic) |
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:24:53PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad. > > ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death? > (hint, Lenin died in 1924).
After his death. And the city was renamed back to St. Petersburg in 1991. With a 5 days-a-year long exception where the name Leningrad is used in parallel, in rememberance of WWII.
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