Simbirsk

This founder of the Russian Communist Party and leader of the Russian Revolution was born, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in Simbirsk, Russia.

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The city of 600,000 people was once called Simbirsk, but was renamed Ulyanovsk during Communism in honor of Lenin, whose given last name was Ulyanov.

Officials in Lenin’s Birthplace Ordered to Learn English - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The city of 600,000 people was once called Simbirsk, but was renamed Ulyanovsk during Communism in honor of Lenin, whose given last name was Ulyanov.

Officials in Lenin’s Birthplace Ordered to Learn English - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

For more than three centuries, though already mistress of Siberia and victorious in remote Asia, Russia proper might be considered as ending at the Volga; so that most of the older and most important towns south of Kasan and north of Astrakhan, such as Simbirsk,

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In 1670 a Cossack named Stepan Razin raised the banner of revolt from the Caspian to Simbirsk (present-day Ulyanovsk), far beyond the oblast, decrying czarist serfdom as worse than the slavery practiced by "Turks or heathens."

Russia's Holy Warriors 2005

In 1670 a Cossack named Stepan Razin raised the banner of revolt from the Caspian to Simbirsk (present-day Ulyanovsk), far beyond the oblast, decrying czarist serfdom as worse than the slavery practiced by "Turks or heathens."

Russia's Holy Warriors 2005

In 1670 a Cossack named Stepan Razin raised the banner of revolt from the Caspian to Simbirsk (present-day Ulyanovsk), far beyond the oblast, decrying czarist serfdom as worse than the slavery practiced by "Turks or heathens."

Russia's Holy Warriors 2005

According to an article in Der Standard (seconded by a badly written Moscow News story), the city of Ulyanovsk (formerly Simbirsk, near where Karamzin, the inventor of the letter, was born) is planning to erect a stone monument to honor the letter ё yo, which has long been ousted from official Russian documents.

languagehat.com: YO! 2005

Also Karamzin was born in a small village near Orenburg, not Simbirsk.

languagehat.com: YO! 2005

The Tatar was silent, and stared with tear-stained eyes at the fire; his face expressed bewilderment and fear, as though he still did not understand why he was here in the darkness and the wet, beside strangers, and not in the Simbirsk province.

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