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    Kasparov in London and Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) from July 28 to October 8, 1986. Games 1-12 were played at the Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, London,...
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    Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day...
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  • television? The Soviet participant Ludmila Ivanova, an administrator in Hotel Leningrad and a representative of the "Committee of Soviet Women" replied: We...
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  • The Leningrad affair, or Leningrad case (Russian: Ленинградское дело, Leningradskoye delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early...
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    Petersburg is a four-star hotel in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was constructed in 1970 under the name Hotel Leningrad. The hotel has 554 rooms and a concert...
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    Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet–Afghan War, the Chernobyl disaster, an avalanche on Lenin Peak, in the Pamir Mountains, and the 1991 fire at the hotel Leningrad...
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    Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva...
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    2nd French Armored Division made their way into Paris and arrived at the Hôtel de Ville shortly before midnight. The next morning, 25 August, the bulk...
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  • свиданья) in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel, Leningrad. December – W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood meet for the first...
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    Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, nicknamed the Leningrad, was begun in Leningrad, completed in the city of Samara (then known as Kuybyshev)...
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    outlaws, and commanded armed forces to enter the Hôtel de Ville. By 2:30 a.m., they had entered the Hôtel de Ville and made the arrest. There are two conflicting...
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    to a luxury hotel hosting mainly foreign visitors. During World War II, the hotel served as a field hospital during the Siege of Leningrad. There is a...
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  • Невский проспект [Nevsky Prospekt] (in Russian). Leningrad: Lenizdat. p. 14. OCLC 13820895. Hotels (entry). Saint Petersburg, Russia: Saint-Petersburg...
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    political history of Saint Petersburg, Russia (also called "Petrograd" and "Leningrad" at times in its history). In 1897, the first officially-recorded football...
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    in the hotel on 28 December. The hotel was converted to Evacuation Hospital No. 926 in September 1941, at the beginning of the Siege of Leningrad. The hospital...
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    Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 had its Leningrad première on 9 August 1942 during the Second World War, while the city was under siege by the Nazi...
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    the referral was classified." In April 2018, after the FBI raid on the hotel room and offices of Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, Graham, Cory...
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    the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris (1735 – 1740) by Germain Boffrand Table design by Juste-Aurele Meissonier (1730) Grand Chamber of the Prince, Hôtel de Soubise...
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    Hankar House by Paul Hankar (1893) Façade of the Hôtel Tassel by Victor Horta (1892–93) Stairway of the Hôtel Tassel Villa Bloemenwerf by Henry van de Velde...
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  • Christmas Eve. Eventually replaced by the present royal palace. 1772 – Hôtel-Dieu de Paris fire in Paris, France. 1794 – Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen...
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  • temporarily to another country as a form of legal fiction. Suite 212 at Claridges Hotel in London was ceded by the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia on 17 June 1945...
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    set in China, Japan, or Turkey. Salon of the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris (1735–1740) Woodwork in the Hôtel de Varengeville by Nicolas Pineau (1735) Decoration...
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    left the city. In 1931 Leningrad administratively separated from Leningrad Oblast. In 1934 the popular governor of Leningrad, Kirov, was assassinated...
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  • Illinois, U.S. Brain aneurysm Alexander Bashlachev 27 February 17, 1988 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Fall from the window (most likely suicide)...
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  • 1990 1991 90 0-7922-1920-1 National Geographic Special 51479 Voices of Leningrad 1990 1991 60 0-7922-1920-1 National Geographic Special 51479 Flight of...
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  • condition deteriorated until he committed suicide on the Mars surface. 36 6 "Leningrad" Sylvain White Eric Phillips December 15, 2023 (2023-12-15) The Mars 7...
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    28 December 1925, Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. According to Wolf Ehrlich, Yesenin's last poem, Goodbye my...
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    invasions of Poland, France and the Soviet Union, including the siege of Leningrad, rising to the title of Hauptfeldwebel. He was wounded in the Battle of...
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  • William Joseph "Standing The Storm" Beyond Yes "Beyond" Yes Yes Yes Yes "Leningrad" Yes "Heroes" Yes "Once Upon Love" Yes Yes Yes Yes "Kashmir" Yes "Sweet...
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    the area, in 1964 and 1974, which included design firms from Moscow and Leningrad and from the then Soviet republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The...
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