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noun - a city in the European part of Russia
LENINGRAD - Saint Petersburg (Russian: -, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [sankt ptrburk] ( listen)) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhab...
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The party chief who lost the election in this city, the cradle of the revolution, was running unopposed |
Shostakovich's 7th portrays the WWII siege of this city, the once & future St. Petersburg |
About 1 million people died as this city held out against a "900 day siege" by the Germans |
St. Petersburg, until 1991(9) |
2 new place names on the map in 1924, both honoring the same man, were Ulyanovsk & this |
In legend, Peter the Great indicated this city's site by walking into a swamp & planting his bayonet |
Shostakovich's seventh symphony is named for this Soviet city where he began it during the Nazi siege |
This city, the Soviet Union's second largest, was founded at the mouth of the Neva River in 1703 |
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Saint Petersburg (Russian: -, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [sankt ptrburk] ( listen)) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city). * Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: , IPA: [ptrgrat]), on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: , IPA: [lnngrat]), and on 7 September 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. Between 1713 and 1728 and in 17321918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east. * Saint Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultu |