English name | Local name (Russian) | Swedish name |
---|---|---|
Russia | Rossiya | Ryssland |
Karelia | Kareliya | Karelen |
Pechenga | Pechenga | Petsamo |
Petrozavodsk | Petrozavodsk | Petrozavodsk or Petroskoj (Onegaborg) |
Priozersk | Priozersk | Kexholm |
Red Square | Krásnaya plóshchad | Röda torget |
Saint Petersburg | Sankt Peterburg | Sankt Petersburg |
Shlisselburg | Shlisselburg (Шлиссельбу́рг) | Nöteborg |
Vyborg | Vyborg | Viborg |
Zelenogorsk | Zelenogorsk | Terijoki |
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Famous quotes containing the word russia:
“A fool may be a dangerous customer, but the fact of his having such a vulnerable top-end turns danger into a first-rate sport; and whatever defects the old administration in Russia had, it must be conceded that it possessed one outstanding virtuea lack of brains.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Todays difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (19211990)