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Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг (help·info), tr.: Sankt-Peterburg, Russian pronunciation: [sankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) is a city an a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924) and Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991). It is informally known as Piter (Пи́тер).

Trivia about leningrad

  • 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
  • This city, the Soviet Union's second largest, was founded at the mouth of the Neva River in 1703
  • St. Petersburg, until 1991(9)
  • Shostakovich's 7th portrays the WWII siege of this city, the once & future St. Petersburg
  • Shostakovich's seventh symphony is named for this Soviet city where he began it during the Nazi siege
  • The party chief who lost the election in this city, the cradle of the revolution, was running unopposed

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