Leningrad - Gorod Geroi - Hero City, for surviving the German siege in WW2 |
Soviet emblem, Leningrad 1988 |
Dvortsovaya Ploshchad (Palace Square), Winter Palace, Alexander Column |
General Staff Building, Dvortsovaya Ploshchad/Palace Square |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) group inaugurating sister city project with Pushkin in 1988, led by Prof. Patrick Dunn |
Catherine Palace, Pushkin, 25 km south of Leningrad |
Catherine Palace, Pushkin |
Catherine Palace, Pushkin |
Catherine Palace, Pushkin, built 1781-1786 |
Inside the Catherine Palace |
Elisabeth Petrovna |
Restoration work in March 1988, Catherine Palace |
Moscow Station, Leningrad |
Pribaltiskaya Hotel, Leningrad |
Area around the Pribaltiskaya Hotel |
Leningrad |
Leningrad |
Leningrad |
Fortress of Peter and Paul, 1703 |
Cruiser Aurora, whose shot triggered the October Revolution in 1917 |
Smolny Cathedral and Convent, Leningrad |
Smolny Cathedral |
Leningrad |
Leningrad |
World War II memorial, Leningrad |
Alexander Column, Palace Square |
Lenin overlooking the Neva River in Leningrad |
Soviet sailor on his wedding day |
Rostral Column along the Neva |
The Winter Palace from on the frozen Neva River |
Winter Palace, Leningrad |
To Peter I (the Great) from Catherine II (the Great) |
Decembrists Square/Ploshchad Dekabristov |
St. Issac's Cathedral |
St. Issac's Cathedral |
St. Issac's Cathedral |
Leningrad |
The Admiralty |
A church in Leningrad |
Soviet navy mural |
Miru Mir, World Peace |
Resurrection Church, built where Tsar Alexander II, reformer and liberator of the serfs, was assassinated in 1881 |
A park in Leningrad |
Walking along Nevsky Prospekt |
Leningrad |
Kazan Cathdral (1801-1811), Nevsky Prospekt |
Russian car of the mid-1980s |
The Soviet uniform parts mafia at the Pribaltiskaya |
Leningrad Airport |