Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ves Peterburg (/vʲesʲ pʲɪtʲɪrˈburg/, Literally translated \"All Petersburg\" or \"The Entire Saint Petersburg\"\") (Full name in cyrillic \"Ves Petersburg; Adresnaja i spravočnaja kniga g. Petersburga\") (often referred to as the Suvorin directories from the publisher's name) was the title of a series of city directories of Saint Petersburg, Russia published on a yearly basis from 1894 to 1940 by Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorin. Each volume was anywhere between 500 to 1500 pages long. After changes in the name of the city the directories were called \"Ves Petrograd\" from 1914 to 1923 and \"Ves Leningrad\" from 1924 to 1940.The directories contained detailed lists of private residents, names of streets and squares across the city with the details of their occupants and owners, government offices, public services and medium and large businesses present in the city. They are often used by genealogists for family research in pre-revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet period when vital records are missing or prove difficult to find. Historians use them to research the social histories of the city."@en }
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- Ves_Peterburg abstract "Ves Peterburg (/vʲesʲ pʲɪtʲɪrˈburg/, Literally translated \"All Petersburg\" or \"The Entire Saint Petersburg\"\") (Full name in cyrillic \"Ves Petersburg; Adresnaja i spravočnaja kniga g. Petersburga\") (often referred to as the Suvorin directories from the publisher's name) was the title of a series of city directories of Saint Petersburg, Russia published on a yearly basis from 1894 to 1940 by Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorin. Each volume was anywhere between 500 to 1500 pages long. After changes in the name of the city the directories were called \"Ves Petrograd\" from 1914 to 1923 and \"Ves Leningrad\" from 1924 to 1940.The directories contained detailed lists of private residents, names of streets and squares across the city with the details of their occupants and owners, government offices, public services and medium and large businesses present in the city. They are often used by genealogists for family research in pre-revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet period when vital records are missing or prove difficult to find. Historians use them to research the social histories of the city.".