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With a calmness that amazed and appalled him, Sasha called Petrovka 38 and told the woman who answered to send an ambulance and help.
Rostnikov's Vacation Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1991
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One possibility was to call Petrovka, to tell the duty officer to get to the Moscow Soviet, but there would be a great risk in that.
Rostnikov's Vacation Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1991
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The Petrovka is a long street of great houses, and was now deserted.
Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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Petrovka wants me to go there, get on my hands and knees and help find the little puppy.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010
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And for the first time, journalists took to the picket lines, standing in silent protest outside Petrovka 38, the headquarters of the Moscow police.
For Russian journalists, one beating too many Kathy Lally 2010
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This was the sort of case that Petrovka felt two ways about.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010
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"It has changed my way of thinking," Julia Sadovskaya, a 23-year-old Web journalist said Monday, holding a placard in the freezing rain outside Petrovka 38.
For Russian journalists, one beating too many Kathy Lally 2010
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Petrovka was shorthand for militia headquarters on Petrovka Street.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010
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He saw no sign on her of violence new or old, but given the choice between investigating the murder of a streetwalker or writing her off as a “death by natural causes,” Petrovka would happily accept the proposition that a young woman in apparent good health had undressed, lain down for sex in a trailer and peacefully expired.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010
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Movies such as "The Girl from Petrovka" with Goldie Hawn didn't do much for his career.
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