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[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

What does каменноостровский mean? I can't find it in my dictionary although it's in my Russian textbook.

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

+1

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

It's an adjective formed from the words "каменный остров" - "island of stone". So "of, or relating to, Каменный остров".

[oryx_and_crake]

Pertaining to, or located at, Каменный остров. Каменноостровский проспект is also a street name.

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

do you know know what ленвест means? Is it a store name?

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

It's a firm.

[ipodg730.livejournal.com]

I would say it's a footwear trade mark.

[markushka.livejournal.com]

Famous in late 80th - mid 90th Russian-German (in cooperation with Salamander) joint venture company, one of the first Russian JSCs. In 1994 Salamander has opted out from JSC, Lenwest still owes Salamander some millions bucks.

It was making shoes in Leningrad (that's why Len), using "western" templates (that's why West). Shoes were generally made better than Russian original footwear made on the same plant using local old technologies and templates. As of now multiple entities having in the name word Lenwest exist, but most of them are property or sales related firms.

Old Y'02 news says that "Vladimir Gorodny earlier worked at "Skorokhod" and was general director of the first joint venture in Leningrad called "Lenwest", now manages another footwear brand.

http://www.leathernet.ru/e_n159.htm

Also known for the chain of stores located in StPetersburg and some other cities.

Lenwest still listed in Yellow Pages business index: http://yellowpages.rin.ru/cgi-bin/more_e.cgi?z=RU&id=339935

There is a site of Lenwest: http://www.trade.spb.ru/lenwest/

It's not known if Lenwest itself produces shoes or not. Site is designed in 1999 and no visible changes made.

There is a small company Lenwest-Burgerschuhe making shoes (only some items of men footwear) not affiliated with former JSC, just renting some facilities owned by Proletarskaya Pobeda ("Proletariat's Victory" plant, current owner of JSC).

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

It's a place name. It appears to be both a palace and an avenue in St. Petersburg. It would translate roughly to Stony Island Palace / Stony Island Avenue.

[sergeysk.livejournal.com]

I would translate it Kamenno-ostrovsky.

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

Depends on the purpose. If I were giving you directions, I would say "Go to Kamennoostrovsky Avenue" or I would say that the office is located at 17 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, but if you asked me what it meant, I would tell you it meant stony island avenue.

[sergeysk.livejournal.com]

I am glad you cleared that )

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

Also, that's why I used the conditional instead of the indicative mood. It would translate instead of it translates to ...

[sergeysk.livejournal.com]

Very thoughtful.

[firebottle.livejournal.com]

I think it means this place (http://maps.yandex.ru/map.xml?mapID=500&mapX=3374144&mapY=8355371&scale=13&slices=1) in St. Petersburg