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[syn: St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Leningrad \Leningrad\ prop. n.
A city in the European part of Soviet Russia; the former
capital of Russia. The name was formerly St. Petersburg and
Petrograd, and was changed back to Saint Petersburg
(Sankt Peterburg in Russian) in 1992.
Syn: St. Petersburg, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Leningrad
n 1: a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian
city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former
capital of Russia [syn: St. Petersburg, Leningrad,
Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg]