If you want to talk about Leningrad, we talk about Leningrad.

NPR: Excerpt: 'City of Thieves'

After graduation he later lived in Leningrad for about 10 years, during which time he endured a sobering arrest by Soviet authorities for attending a private lecture on the history of Jews in Spain.

WSJ: Porcelain Flowers Never Die

Russians from Leningrad to Petropavlovsk cheered the news about Gagarin, who had flown higher (188 miles) and faster (18, 000 mph) than anyone before.

CNN: 40 years of space flight, 20 years of shuttles