Saint-Tropez Saint-Tropez Saint-Tropez (; "" in Provençal dialect) is a town on the French Riviera, west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on this coast to be liberated during World War II as part of Operation Dragoon. After the war, it became an internationally known seaside resort, renowned principally because of the influx of artists of the French New Wave in cinema and the Yé-yé movement in music. It later became a resort
St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathamatical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathamatical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences The St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences (, abbreviated ПОМИ (POMI) for "Петербургское отделение Математического института", Petersburg Department of the Mathematical Institute) is a mathematical research institute in St. Petersburg, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Until 1992 it was known as "Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences" (ЛОМИ, LOMI) The name of the institution is a historical tradition and since 1995 it has no subordination to the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. The