The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled " Suite on Finnish Themes " to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki.

The Vyborg and Archangel Corps of the Leningrad Military District were smaller armies with three low-readiness motorized rifle divisions each.

The Karelian Isthmus is included within Leningrad Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

* 76th Air Army ( Leningrad, Leningrad Military District )

Leningrad Military District, the Baltic Fleet and border troops under the NKVD, conducted espionage operations.

Then, on March 1932, he entered the Institute of Military Mechanical Engineering in Leningrad from where he graduated in 1934.

* Novgorod Army Operational Group, an operational manoeuvre group created on the 13 August 1939 in the Leningrad Military District, Russia

It can be installed on T-72B and T-90 tanks and is being tested in the Leningrad Military District, although Relikt is not actually in service on any Russian tank.

To address this growing concern, a decision was cast by the Military Soviet of the Leningrad Front to establish an evacuation commission in November 1941.

In 1932 he was appointed commandant of the Red Army's Frunze Military Academy, then in 1935 returned to the command of the Leningrad region.

76th airborne ( CDO ) division from Pskov which is part of Leningrad Military District ( 210 BMD vehicles as of 2000 ), the subunits of this division include 104nd airborne regiment from Pskov ( 51 BMD-1 ) and 234th airborne regiment from Pskov ( 98 BMD-1 ).

In the postwar years Govorov was commander of the Leningrad Military District, and then Chief Inspector of Ground Forces.

* 6th Air Defence Army ( Leningrad Military District )

Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering.

He attended the Leningrad Cavalry School and then the Frunze Military Academy, graduating in 1935.

Shargin graduated from the Military Engineering Academy for Aeronautics and Astronautics located in Leningrad.

Following the war, he also commanded the Far Eastern ( 1947-1953 ), Leningrad ( 1957-1960 ) and Moscow Military Districts ( 1960-1963 ).

* Northern Front-formed from Leningrad Military District on 24 June 1941

There were initially four such armies with headquarters in St. Petersburg ( Leningrad Military District ), Rostov-on-Don ( Caucasus Military District ), Khabarovsk ( Far East Military District ), and Chita ( Siberian Military District ).

He became commander of the Leningrad Military District the same year.

According to the Presidium of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee resolution of February 26, 1935, the administrative center of Polyarny District was moved from Polyarnoye to Sayda-Guba.

Allotments at Sista-Palkino, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, by the Sista river

However, since World War II the entire isthmus has been divided between the city of Saint Petersburg ( mostly Kurortny District ), as well as Priozersky District, Vsevolozhsky District and Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast.

According to the 2002 census, the population of the Kurortny District of Saint Petersburg and the parts of Leningrad Oblast situated on the Karelian Isthmus amounts to 539, 000.

This arrangement existed until May 28, 1938, when the okrug was separated from Leningrad Oblast, merged with Kandalakshsky District of the Karelian ASSR, and transformed into modern Murmansk Oblast.

Staraya Ladoga (), or the Aldeigjuborg of Norse sagas, is a village ( selo ) in the Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, 8 km north of the town of Volkhov.

Sisto-Palkino, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, and the Sista river

In 1936 some parts of the territory of Leningrad Suburban District of Leningrad was returned to Leningrad Oblast and divided into Vsevolozhsky District, Krasnoselsky District, Pargolovsky District and Slutsky District ( renamed Pavlovsky District in 1944 ).

* Leningrad ( band ), Russian ska / punk band

Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.

In their calculations they concluded that there was little danger of a large-scale retreat of the Soviet army into the Russian interior, as it could not afford to give up the Baltic states, the Ukraine, or the Moscow and Leningrad regions, all of which were vital to the Red Army for supply reasons and would thus have to be defended.

* June 7 – Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus '.

Julian Karol Sochocki (, ; February 2, 1842, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – December 14, 1927, Leningrad, Soviet Union ) was a Polish mathematician.

People say that Peter, after his death, stopped Hitler ’ s army near Leningrad, as the living Peter stopped the Russian army near Berlin.

In this respect, the revolution is more reminiscent of the Bolshevik October revolution than of the American, and this similarity is reinforced by the Russian flavor of the dialect, and the Russian place names such as " Novy Leningrad ".

He was born in Leningrad ( now Saint Petersburg ) to a Russian mother and father, and learned to play chess at the age of five on a train evacuating from Leningrad during World War II.

The film was recorded among other places in Montecatini Terme in Tuscany, in Saint-Petersburg ( Leningrad at the time ) and in the historic Russian town of Kostroma.

In 1924 he was forced by the Cheka ( Russian secret police ) to leave Rostov due to the Yevsektsiya's slander, and settled in Leningrad.

The first modern critical edition of the Shahnameh was prepared by a Russian team led by E. E. Bertel, using the oldest known manuscript copies, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with heavy reliance on the 1276 manuscript from the British Museum and the Leningrad manuscript, dated 1333, of which the latter has now been considered a secondary manuscript.

Initially the Germans advanced with great ease and nearly captured Moscow, also laying siege to Leningrad, but soon found themselves fighting the harsh Russian winter as well as stiffer Soviet resistance, and their advance ground to a halt at Stalingrad in early 1943.

Finland initially regained the lost territory, reaching the Russian side of the border of 1939 and seen by the Russians as indirectly contributing to the Siege of Leningrad ( see Finnish reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus ( 1941 )).

After the war the isthmus was included into the Leningrad Oblast and people from other parts of the Soviet Union, mostly Russian, were settled here.

Following the Russian revolution of 1917, she returned to the school as a teacher in 1921, although it had by then been re-established as the Leningrad Choreographic School by the Soviet government.

The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock band famous for humorously performing rock and roll covers of popular songs, exaggerated pompadour hairstyles, long, pointy shoes, often featuring a Russian military band, the Alexandrov Ensemble.

According to the 2002 Russian Census, there were 327 Izhorians in Russia, of whom 177 lived in Leningrad oblast and 53 in St Petersburg.

When Toscanini gave the American premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh (" Leningrad ") Symphony in 1942 in which the maestro heard the " suffering of the Russian people " at the hands of the German invaders, Haggin, his greatest and most perceptive admirer, dissented, declaring it " an inflated monstrosity of straining, portentous banality.

In January 1945 Ivangorod, a town across the river which was founded in 1492 by Tsar Ivan III of Russia, was given a separate administrative status from the rest of Narva, as a part of the Leningrad Oblast in the Russian SFSR.

Under Mravinsky, the Leningrad Philharmonic gained a legendary reputation, particularly in Russian music such as Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (), ( in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast-August 25, 1938 in Leningrad ) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel ( 1905 ).