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The 17 pages that link to Leningrad, each with the reason it gives.

• Saint PetersburgCompared with: The Soviet renaming recast the city’s public identity after the revolution.

• Winter WarRelated: Its proximity to the border underpinned Soviet demands for territory on the Karelian Isthmus.

• Mikhail BakhtinRelated: Bakhtin’s intellectual circle formed in Petrograd, later renamed Leningrad.

• Andrei ZhdanovRelated: Zhdanov governed the city’s party organization and built his principal political base there.

• Joseph BrodskyRelated: Brodsky grew up and began writing poetry in this Soviet city.

• Mikhail BotvinnikRelated: Botvinnik was born and began his chess career in Leningrad.

• Galina UlanovaRelated: Ulanova was born and trained in Leningrad.

• Grigory ZinovievBroader topic: Zinoviev headed the party organization in this city, then called Petrograd.

• Karelian IsthmusRelated: Soviet leaders viewed the isthmus’s proximity to Leningrad as a strategic concern.

• Natalia MakarovaNarrower topic: Makarova’s ballet education and early professional life unfolded in this Soviet city.

• Zhores AlferovRelated: Alferov studied and pursued much of his scientific career in Leningrad.

• Operation IskraBroader topic: The operation's immediate strategic purpose was to reconnect this isolated city by land.

• Viktor TsoiRelated: The city’s cultural networks and underground venues formed the setting for his early work.

• Daniil KharmsRelated: Kharms lived and worked in Leningrad, where OBERIU formed and his literary circles gathered.

• Olga BerggoltsRelated: The city’s literary circles and wartime fate defined much of Berggolts’s public life.

• Yevgeny MravinskyNarrower topic: The city’s changing name and wartime history frame the orchestra’s Soviet-era identity.

• Nikolay CherkasovNarrower topic: The city’s theater and film institutions formed the setting for much of Cherkasov’s working life.