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From: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
Date: 20040326
Author:Irina Titova

Irina Titova
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
03-26-2004
URL: http://www.sptimes.ru/
Governor Valentina Matviyenko has saved a park located on the site where
national poet Alexander Pushkin fought a fatal duel from being turned into
a gas station.
The idea of building a Balt Trade gas station between metro stations
Pionerskaya and Chyornaya Rechka appeared more than a year ago. In July
of 2003 the city's investment and tender commission gave Balt Trade a building
permit for the station.
However, residents of Primorsky district did not like the idea because
the planned construction site was the ...

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