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1909 – Na Liteinom Theatre founded. 1910 – March: Soyuz Molodyozhi art exhibit held. [12] 1913 – Population: 2,318,645. [13] 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 ...
Map of Petergofsky District 1918 Petrograd city map with Petergofsky District highlighted. Petergofsky District (Russian: Петергофский район) was an administrative division of the Russian capital Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) between 1917 and 1919. It was a working-class area just outside the south-western frontier ...
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 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.
In the August 20, 1917 Petrograd City Duma election, the Kadets got 5,478 votes in the Kazansky District, the SRs 3,993 votes, the Bolsheviks 2,284 votes, Mensheviks 471 votes, the Trudoviks-Popular Socialists and Unity 395 votes and others 754 votes [13] The was a significant phenomenon of voter absenteeism in the Kazansky District in this ...
Petrogradsky Island or Petrograd Island (Russian: Петроградский остров) is the third-largest island in the Neva River delta in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [1] Along with Zayachy Island , Aptekarsky Island , and Petrovsky Island , it constitutes the Petrogradskaya Side ( Russian : Петроградская сторона). [ 2 ]
Thousands of workers flooded the streets of Petrograd (modern St. Petersburg) to show their dissatisfaction. [33] The first major protest of the February Revolution occurred on 18 February O.S. (3 March N.S) as workers of Putilov Factory, Petrograd's largest industrial plant, announced a strike to demonstrate against the government. [7]
Petrogradsky District on the older map of St. Petersburg Close-up of Petrogradsky District. Petrogradsky District (Russian: Петрогра́дский райо́н) is a district of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia.