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Leningrad Renaming

Russia · Government / Soviet Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1924Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1924

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev26 January 1924

Petrograd · Government / Soviet Government

Petrograd is renamed Leningrad after Lenin's death.

Names involved

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Provenance

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