The Creation of St. Petersburg - By: Eduard, 2009-09-14

In July 1991 the city of Leningrad overturned seventy-seven years of socialist and communist rule by resuming its original name, St. Petersburg. An important centre for science, art and industry, this great city was the Russian capital for over two hundred years, gaining the nickname 'The Venice of the North'. However, at the start of the eighteenth century, St. Petersburg did not exist.

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