Grigory Ioffe
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Professor of Geography, Radford University, Radford, Virginia. Coauthor of The Environs of Russian Cities and Continuity and Change in Rural Russia.
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St. Petersburg, city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. A major historical and cultural center and an important port, St. Petersburg lies about 400 miles (640 km) northwest of Moscow and only about 7° south of the Arctic Circle. It is the second largest city of Russia and one of the world’s…
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