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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, known as Petrograd in 1914-1924 and Leningrad in 1924-1991, is the second largest city of Russia, with 5.6 million inhabitants, the fourth most populous city in Europe, the world's northernmost city of at least a million residents, and the former capital of the Russian Empire.
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  • Type: State with 5,350,000 residents
  • Also known as: “Gorod-Geroy Leningrad”, “Sankt-Peterburg”, and “St.-Petersburg”
  • Historically known as: “Leningrad” and “Petrograd”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vasilievsky Island and Zenit.

Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an island in situated between the Bolshaya Neva and the Malaya Neva, two main distributaries of the river. The population of the district, including the adjacent to Dekabristov Island, separated by the Smolenka river, and smaller islets, is approximately 215,000 people.

Metro station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a Saint Petersburg Metro station on the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It opened on May 26, 2018 as Novokrestovskaya as part of the extension of the line to the north from .

Railway station
Photo: Ντμίτρι, Public domain.
is a railway station in , . It was named after the historical district of Lakhta-Olgino Municipal Okrug. The station was built by JSC Prinorskaya St.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Petrograd Side and Komendantsky Aerodrom.

Photo: Мария.Б., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a borough in consisting of the islands of the northern part of the Neva delta. Mostly residential, it is also home to several smaller universities, stadiums of FC Zenit and the tallest structure of the city, a 326-m-high TV tower.

Suburb
Photo: Dinamik, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb.

Saint Petersburg

Latitude
59.9607° or 59° 57′ 38″ north
Longitude
30.1587° or 30° 9′ 31″ east
Population
5,350,000
Open location code
9GFGX565+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2050243275
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
536203
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Swedish—“Saint Petersburg” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট পিটার্সবার্গ”
  • Catalan: “Sant Petersburg”
  • Dutch: “Leningrad” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Petrograd” (historical)
  • Estonian: “Peterburi”
  • Finnish: “Pietari”
  • French: “Saint-Pétersbourg”
  • French: “Léningrad” (historical)
  • French: “Pétrograd” (historical)
  • German: “Sankt Petersburg”
  • Hungarian: “Szentpétervár”
  • Irish: “Cathair Pheadair”
  • Karelian: “Piiteri”
  • Korean: “레닌그라드” (historical)
  • Korean: “상트페테르부르크”
  • Portuguese: “São Petersburgo”
  • Russian: “Ленинград” (historical)
  • Russian: “Петроград” (historical)
  • Russian: “Санкт-Петербург”
  • Spanish: “San Petersburgo”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Petersburg”

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