petrograd

Petrograd [pe-truh-grad; Russian pyi-truh-graht] EXAMPLES| noun former name (1914–24) of St. Petersburg(def 2). Liberaldictionary.com

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Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for petrograd Historical Examples of petrograd

In September 1915 the Petrograd region could obtain no more than 65 per cent.

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Apparently some people anticipate an advance on Petrograd itself.

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Then just before we started to Petrograd he presented it to me.

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If we have failed it is, of course, wisest that we should return to Petrograd.

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But when you reach Petrograd have nothing to do with Sonya Valesky.

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British Dictionary definitions for petrograd Petrograd noun a former name (1914–24) of Saint Petersburg Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012