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Dekabristov Island (lit), known prior to 1926 as Goloday Island (остров Голодай – possibly a corruption of a British merchant name Halliday) is an island in Vasileostrovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia, to the north of Vasilyevsky Island, separated from it by Smolenka River.[1]

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  1. 16 relations: Decembrist revolt, Fyodor Lidval, Ivan Fomin, Leonid Brezhnev, Neoclassicism, Primorskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro), Russia, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Metro, Smolenka (river), Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, Soviet Union, Vasileostrovsky District, Vasilyevsky Island, World War I.

  2. Decembrist revolt
  3. Islands of Saint Petersburg
  4. Neva River
  5. River islands of Russia
  6. Saint Petersburg geography stubs
  7. Vasileostrovsky District

Decembrist revolt

The Decembrist Revolt (translation) was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.

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Fyodor Lidval

Fyodor Ivanovich Lidval (Фёдор Иванович Лидваль, Swedish:Johan Fredrik Lidvall) (June 1 (June 13) 1870, St. Petersburg – 1945, Stockholm) was a Russian-Swedish architect.

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Ivan Fomin

Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin (Russian: Иван Александрович Фомин; 3 February 1872 – 12 June 1936) was a Russian architect and educator.

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Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Primorskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Primorskaya (Примо́рская) is the station of the Nevsko–Vasileostrovskaya Line (Line 3) of the Saint Petersburg Metro.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Saint Petersburg Metro

The Saint Petersburg Metro (Peterburgskiy metropoliten) is a rapid transit system in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Smolenka (river)

The Smolenka (Смоленка) is a minor river in the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Dekabristov Island and Smolenka (river) are Saint Petersburg geography stubs.

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Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery

The Smolenskoye(-oe) Cemetery (in German Smolensker Friedhof) is a Lutheran cemetery on Dekabristov Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Vasileostrovsky District

Vasileostrovsky District (Василеостро́вский райо́н) is a district of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Vasilyevsky Island

Vasilyevsky Island (Васи́льевский о́стров, Vasilyevsky Ostrov, V.O.) is an island in St. Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva Rivers (in the delta of the Neva River) in the south and northeast, and by Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland in the west. Dekabristov Island and Vasilyevsky Island are islands of Saint Petersburg, river islands of Russia and Vasileostrovsky District.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

Decembrist revolt

Islands of Saint Petersburg

Neva River

River islands of Russia

Saint Petersburg geography stubs

Vasileostrovsky District

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekabristov_Island

Also known as Decembrists' Island, Goloday Island, Остров Декабристов.