Leningrad Symphony Orchestra (DO NOT USE, read the annotation)

THIS ARTIST IS PROBLEMATIC
IT MAY MERGED SOON.

The name points at St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra.

But many of the Releases listed here are proving to be the 1882 orchestra.

And the remaining ones may be falsely named - perhaps Alfred Scholz or something similar.

Releases here are being checked closely before merging.

St Petersburg was renamed Petrograd, then Leningrad. And then renamed back to Saint Petersburg.
St Petersburg had and has a Philharmonic Society.
The Philharmonic society has/had two orchestras, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.

This orchestra could also be called St Petersburg/Lenigrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
The website for the modern version of this orchestra is www.philharmonia.spb.ru/en/about/orchestra/asof/

It was founded in 1931 and for ~ 20 years was the Lenigrad radio orchestra.
It joined the Leningrad Philharmonic in 1953.
Conductors have included, O.Fried, F.Stiedry, A.Gauk, V.Dranishnikov, N.Golovanov, E.Mravinsky, I.Musin, B.Khaikin, E.Grikurov, K.Eliasberg, N.Rabinovich, and K.Kondrashin.
It has also been conducted by S.Baudo, I.Markevitch, K.Masur, L.Maazel, E.Svetlanov and G.Rozhdestvensky and A.Jansons.
In 1968 Y.Temirkanov became the conductor. In 1977 Alexander Dmitriev took over conducting and continued until June 2018