Leningrad

[len-in-grad, lyi-nyin-graht]

noun

1. a former name (1924–91) of St. Petersburg

Leningrad

/ lɪninˈɡrat, ˈlɛnɪnˌɡræd /

noun

1. the former name (1937–91) of Saint Petersburg

Leningrad

1. Name of Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 1924 to 1991. (See Saint Petersburg.)

Example Sentences

“The Fake News is working overtime … If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal!”

From Salon

The 84-year-old survived the Siege of Leningrad as a very young child with her four siblings and mother.

From BBC

As a boy growing up in Leningrad, Mark Shterenberg developed a fascination with the way things worked — the challenge of taking them apart, the responsibility of putting them back together.

From Los Angeles Times

By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.

From Salon

He was born Feb. 9, 1985, in Leningrad and was a graduate of the distinguished Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, whose notable male alumni also include Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev.

From Los Angeles Times