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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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
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
1962 – Saint Petersburg TV Tower constructed. 1963 – Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 Neva river ditching. 1965 – Population: 3,329,000 city; 3,641,000 urban agglomeration. [16] 1967 – Museum of Electrical Transport established. 1971 Dostoevsky Museum opens. Rimsky-Korsakov Museum established. 1974 – Na Fontanke Youth Theatre founded.
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 ]