[Bo Simonsen  Michael Haritonov], 12 Jan 05 10:02

 MH>>>> Anyway, what did you really mean?
 BS>>> Do you still call ex-USSR USSR?
 MH>> Just when referring to the times of USSR. The same with cities
 MH>> which changed their names. For example, St.Petersburg was
 MH>> Leningrad till 1991. So I say "I visited Leningrad in 1988" and
 MH>> "I visited St.Peterburg in 1993".
 BS> Two words for the same city. :)

A lot of cities were renamed after communist revolution in 1917. Great part of
them were renamed back to their original names after USSR was cancelled in
1991; some cities have kept "new" names however (for ex.,
Ulyanovsk named after
V.Ulyanov-Lenin was Simbirsk before 1917 but now it's still Ulyanovsk).

 BS> You where in Skt. Pedersburg right after the federation was born?

Huh? Which federation was born? You mean USSR was disintegrated? Then yes.
Russian Federation wasn't born then, it existed inside USSR too. USSR was a
federation of 15 republics, 2 of them, Russia and Georgia, were federations
too. Or may be Ukraine was a federation too, I don't remember whether Crimea
had a status of autonomous republic inside Ukraine.

        Best wishes,
                     Mix.

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