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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

ST. PETERSBURG BECOMES LENINGRAD, January 24, 1924

ST. PETERSBURG
IS RE-NAMED IN HONOR OF
VLADIMIR LENIN
January 24, 1924
(Three days after the Soviet leader's death)

KAZAN CATHEDRAL
LENINGRAD, RUSSIA, USSR, 1984

Sixty years after the former capital's name was changed from St. Petersburg
&
seven years before it was changed back to St. Petersburg

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