This would have to be one of the best ever historical accidents: the oldest extant version of the Hebrew Bible is known as the Leningrad Codex or Codex Leningradensis.

Copied in 1008 CE, the codex has been at home in the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg since 1863. Given that a rather significant event happened not long afterwards, the city was renamed Leningrad (still the offical name of the airport LED). And so it became the Leningrad Codex. From 1937 the critical editions of the Hebrew text used what was officially known as Codex Leningradensis as their basis. After the temporary pause in the revolution that happened in 1991 and the renaming of the city as St. Petersburg, the library requested that the name Lenin be retained.

What wisdom; what foresight; what practicality. After all, Lenin is already locked in by text-critical work as the one inseparably attached to this codex. I’m getting hold of my copy tomorrow: