St. Petersburg
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St. Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. From 1914-1924, it was called Petrograd, and from 1924-1991, it was called Leningrad.
Founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia on May 27, 1703, it was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years (1713–1728, 1732–1918). Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
[edit] St. Petersburg in Southern Victory
Petrograd was the capital of Russia. In 1944 it was destroyed by the first German superbomb, becoming the first city in the world to fall victim to the bomb.
