Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:05:50 +0300 | From | Petko Manolov <> | Subject | Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic) |
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David Weinehall wrote: > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet > Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover > was made, the city was renamed Leningrad (after V.I. Lenin). When the > Soviet Union finally fell to pieces and the Baltics retained their freedom, > St. Petersburg retained its old name, which it got (if I'm not all wrong) > from Peter the Great.
AFAIK Tigran is born in the Soviet Union and i thing he knows the history of his own country better ;-)
Anyway, i am bulgarian and i also am used to call St. Petersburg Leningrad ;-))
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