Population of St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg - The most Northern city in the world with a population over 1 million!
The population is actually 4,700,000 as of 2002
Name changes:
May, 1703 - August, 1914 St. Petersburg
August, 1914 - February, 1924 Petrograd
February, 1924 - July, 1991 Leningrad
July, 1991 - Present St. Petersburg
There are more than 539 bridges and 101 islands in St. Petersburg
There are 27 world class museums in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is the largest city in the world to experience "White Nights" in the summer where nightfall does not come.
Surveys filled out by experienced travelers that participated in M&M Travel tours to Russia preferred Russian food to French
by a margin of over 90%!
The first railroad was built in St. Petersburg, not Moscow
An estimated 800,000 civilian causalities were sustained by the population of St. Petersburg during the 900-day siege in World War II
Vladimir Lenin lived in the very hotel we most prefer in St. Petersburg after the revolution until he moved the capitol back to Moscow
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