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Bookmark or Share- Saint Petersburg - WikipediaSaint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of roughly 5.6 million residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area.
- Saint Petersburg - WorldAtlasSaint Petersburg. Sankt-Petersburg in nativity, Petrograd from 1914 to 1924 and Leningrad until 1991, is adorned by Russians and global tourists alike. This port-bound metropolis, located in the extreme northwest of the largest country in the world, Russia, comprises a major historical and cultural mecca, with an area of 550 square miles (1,400 ...
- History of St. Petersburg from 1913 to 1918Home. History of St. Petersburg. By era. St. Petersburg (Petrograd) in war and revolution (1913-1918) On the frosty winter morning of 21 February 1913, a twenty-one gun salute rang out from St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress: the Romanov dynasty was heralding its tercentenary.
- History of Saint Petersburg - WikipediaHistory of Saint Petersburg. The Bronze Horseman, monument to Peter the Great. The city of Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703. It became the capital of the Russian Empire and remained as such for more than two hundred years (1712–1728, 1732–1918).
- Petrograd Soviet - WikipediaFor brevity, it is usually called the Petrograd Soviet (Russian: Петроградский совет, Petrogradskiy soviet). The Soviet was established in March 1917 after the February Revolution as a representative body of the city's workers and soldiers, while the city already had its well-established city council, the Saint Petersburg City ...
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