1924 was renamed Leningrad in memory of Lenin, and199/kloc-0 was renamed St. Petersburg in. St Petersburg and the historical center are listed as World Heritage sites by UNESCO.
St Petersburg occupies an important position in Russian economy and is a large-scale comprehensive industrial city. St Petersburg is often called the most westernized city in Russia. It is Russia's window to Europe. Many foreign consulates, multinational corporations, banks and other commercial bases are located in St. Petersburg, which is also an international city with highly developed science, technology and industry.
St Petersburg is located at 59 ~ 60 north latitude and 29 ~ 30 east longitude. Located in the northwest of Russia, it is the innermost part of the Gulf of Finland, with an area of 1439 square kilometers, 44 kilometers long from north to south and 25 kilometers wide from east to west, of which the urban area is 606 square kilometers. The delta where neva river and neva river meet.
/kloc-At the beginning of the 0/8th century, it was still a swamp. With the construction of St. Petersburg, artificial canals crisscross the city. These canals were excavated during the period of Catherine II, with the purpose of alleviating the seawater flowing backward into St. Petersburg due to the shallow water in the Gulf of Finland. St Petersburg has 42 small islands connected by 423 bridges.
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The name of St. Petersburg means the city of Peter, and its founder is Peter the Great. It was World War I, Russia lost to Germany, and Germany Nicholas II took power and occupied St. Petersburg, renamed it "Petrograd", with a strong Slavic color.
Ten years later, the great Soviet leader Lenin died. In memory of him, the Soviet government renamed it "Leningrad". 199 1 After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in, the first mayor of Leningrad, that is, Putin's teacher, restored the name St. Petersburg again through a referendum.
St. Petersburg is a city that has persisted for 900 days without being breached. Russians are a fighting nation, because during World War II, the people of St. Petersburg were besieged for 900 days on the cruel Soviet-German battlefield, without water, food, hunger, cold and artillery fire. ...
This led to the loss of about 900 thousand people in St. Petersburg. Under such circumstances, the people of St. Petersburg still stick to their city, work hard, build walls and defend their homes with their own bodies. This historic city has finally recovered its former softness.
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