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San Petersburgo (en ruso: Санкт-Петербург, Sankt-Peterburg ), anteriormente conocida como Leningrado ( Ленинград) y Petrogrado ( Петроград ), coloquialmente Piter ( Питер, escuchar ⓘ ), es una ciudad rusa situada sobre la desembocadura del río Nevá en el golfo de Finlandia.
Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city .
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- 3 m (10 ft)
- Russia
- 27 May 1703
Mapa de San Petersburgo de 1734. La ciudad de San Petersburgo no toma su nombre de su fundador, el zar Pedro I, sino del apóstol Pedro. La fortaleza, origen de la ciudad, tomó por un breve periodo de tiempo el nombre de Sankt-Pieterburch, derivado del nombre neerlandés Sint Pietersburg.
- The New Capital
- Revolutions
- Siege of Leningrad
- Postwar Reconstruction
- Postwar History
On 1 May 1703, Peter the Great took both the Swedish fortress of Nyenschantz and the city of Nyen, on the Neva river. Tsar Peter the Great founded the city on 27 May 1703 (in the Gregorian calendar, 16 May in the Julian calendar) after he reconquered the Ingrian land from Sweden, in the Great Northern War. He named the city after his patron saint, ...
Several revolutions, uprisings, assassinations of tsars, and power takeovers in St. Peterburg had shaped the course of history in Russia and influenced the world. In 1801, after the assassination of the Emperor Paul I, his son became the Emperor Alexander I. Alexander I ruled Russia during the Napoleonic Wars and expanded his Empire by acquisitions...
During World War II, Leningrad was surrounded and besieged by the German Wehrmacht from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944, a total of 29 months. By Hitler's order the Wehrmacht constantly shelled and bombed the city and systematically isolated it from any supplies, causing death of more than 1 million civilians in three years; 650,000 died in 194...
The war damaged the city and killed many old Petersburgers who had not fled after the revolution and did not perish in the mass purges before the war. Nonetheless, Leningrad and many of its suburbs were rebuilt over the post-war decades, partially according to the pre-war plans. In 1950 the Kirov Stadium was opened and soon set a record when 110,00...
During the late 1940s and 1950s the political and cultural elite of Leningrad suffered from more harsh repression under the dictatorship of Stalin – hundreds were executed and thousands were imprisoned in what became known as the Leningrad Affair. Independent thinkers, writers, artists and other intellectuals were attacked, the magazines Zvezda and...
Hace 1 día · St. Petersburg, city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. It is a major historical and cultural center, as well as Russia’s second largest city. For two centuries (1712–1918) it was the capital of the Russian Empire. Its historic district was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1990.
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, romanized: Sankt-Peterburg) is a Russian city in northwestern Russia, near the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. Over five million people live in St. Petersburg as of 2015, and it is the second biggest city in Russia.
San Petersburgo, anteriormente conocida como Leningrado (Ленинград) y Petrogrado (Петроград), coloquialmente Piter, es una ciudad rusa situada sobre la desembocadura del río Nevá en el golfo de Finlandia. Con 5 383 890 habitantes (2019) es la segunda ciudad más poblada e importante del país, solo superada por la capital, Moscú.
