Quote Originally Posted by VendingMachine
I know that Dnepropetrovsk is Ukraine, and not Russia, but this is just to show you that not only people in St. Petersburg call it подъезд, but in other places too, all over the former CCCP.
The point is that the people in St Pete use the word парадная and подъезд is something totally different. You ain't been to St Pete and you don't know nowt about the dialect spoken there.
Maybe they say парадная in St. Pete, but we say подъезд in Dnepropetrovsk. That I know for sure.