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Saint Petersburg, [c] formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, [d] 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 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, [4] with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area.
Before 1914, Petrograd was known as Saint Petersburg, and in 1905 the workers' soviet called the St Petersburg Soviet was created. But the main precursor to the 1917 Petrograd Soviet was the Central Workers' Group (Центральная Рабочая Группа, Tsentral'naya Rabochaya Gruppa), founded in November 1915 by the Mensheviks to mediate between workers and the new Central War ...
The Battle of Petrograd was a campaign by the White movement to take the city of Petrograd (at various times called Saint Petersburg, Petrograd, and Leningrad; now Saint Petersburg). The city held significant value, notably as it was the same city that the October Revolution took place in.
Petrograd (Петроград), the name given in 1914 on the outbreak of World War I to avoid the German sound of Petersburg, was a Slavic translation of the previous name. The name was changed to Leningrad (Ленинград) in 1924.
The Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee (PMRC) (Russian: Петроградский военно-революционный комитет, romanized: Petrogradskiy voyenno-revolyutsionnyy komitet) was a militant group of the Petrograd Soviet and one of several military revolutionary committees that were created in the Russian Republic.
1914 – City renamed "Petrograd." 1916 Grigori Rasputin assassinated. Palace Bridge built. 1917 February Revolution begins. [14] March – Petrograd Soviet formed. July Days. August – Golos Truda begins publication. October Revolution. 1918 State capital moves to Moscow from Petrograd. Osobaya Drammaticheskaya Truppa organized. Ioffe ...
Central Petrograd, Petrograd, Russia; the city centre; Petrograd Island, Petrograd, Russia; the origin of the old city of Petrograd; Petrograd Side [wikivoyage; ru; de], Petrograd, Russia; the portion of Petrograd lying on islands in the Nena Delta; see Geography of Saint Petersburg
The socialists at the Petrograd Soviet feared that officers were the most likely counter revolutionary elements and the intention of the Order was to limit their power. These orders rendered the officers powerless at the Russian front lines of World War I, which led to confusion, disastrous military discipline, and desertions. [4]