Leningrad (now St Petersburg) which is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow was renamed Petrograd in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, because it sounded less German, was then named Leningrad after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, and again became St. Petersburg in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. Confusingly, the surrounding region (oblast) is still known as Leningrad.
It situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, and is one of the modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital, and home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.
These fascinating pictures that captured street scenes of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in 1963 by Normann's father when he went to there from 12 to 15 August 1963, and in 1968 by Fintano from Marjorie's trip to the USSR.
It situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, and is one of the modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital, and home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.
These fascinating pictures that captured street scenes of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in 1963 by Normann's father when he went to there from 12 to 15 August 1963, and in 1968 by Fintano from Marjorie's trip to the USSR.
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| Leningrad street scenes, 1963 |
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| Leningrad street scenes, 1963 |
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| A park in Zelenogorsk near Leningrad, 1963 |
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| Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1963 |
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| Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1963 |
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| Flowers and soda on sale in Leningrad, 1963 |
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| Kazan Cathedral, 1963 |
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| Leningrad (now St Petersburg), 1963 |
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| Leningrad (St Petersburg) Admiralty, 1963 |
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| Neva River towards Peter and Paul Fortress, 1963 |
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| Peter and Paul Fortress by the Neva River, 1963 |
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| Peterhof Palace Grand Cascade, 1963 |
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| Peterhof Palace, 1963 |
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| Peterhof Palace, 1963 |
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| Russian Museum with Pushkin monument, 1963 |
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| Samson Fountain in Peterhof, 1963 |
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| Samson Fountain in Peterhof, 1963 |
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| Soviet style housing, 1963 |
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| St Isaac's Cathedral, 1963 |
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| St Isaac's Cathedral, 1963 |
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| Street in Leningrad, 1963 |
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| The Admiralty, 1963 |
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| The Blue Mosque in Leningrad, 1963 |
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| The Chess Mountain, Peterhof, 1963 |
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| Wedding in Leningrad, 1963 |
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| Wedding in Leningrad, 1963 |
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| Canal Griboyedov -St. Saviour's Church, modelled on St. Basil's in Moscow, 1968 |
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| Children's Theatre, 1968 |
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| Comedy Theatre, 1968 |
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| Lenin monument at the Finland Station, 1968 |
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| Lomonsov Museum (old Academy of Sciences Building), 1968 |
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| Moscow station in Leningrad, 1968 |
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| Moscow victory monument on the Moscow Road, Leningrad, 1968 |
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| Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad, 1968 |
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| Public library - Saltikov-Shchedrin Library on the Nevsky Prospect, 1968 |
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| Public library - Saltikov-Shchedrin Library on the Nevsky Prospect, 1968 |
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| Russia Hotel in Leningrad, 1968 |
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| Sculptured Chinese lions on river bank, 1968 |
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| The Winter Palace from Palace Square, 1968 |
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| View of the Neva - Admiralty and St. Isaac's in background, 1968 |
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