Saint Petersburg
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Former names: Petrograd. Leningrad. a city and port in Russia, on the Gulf of Finland at the mouth of the Neva River: founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built on low-lying marshes subject to frequent flooding; capital of Russia from 1712 to 1918; a cultural and educational centre, with a university (1819); a major industrial centre, with engineering, shipbuilding, chemical, textile, and printing industries. Pop: 5 315 000 (2005 est)
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a city and resort in W Florida, on Tampa Bay. Pop: 247 610 (2003 est)
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Because it is so far north, St. Petersburg experiences “white nights” for three weeks in June when the sky never completely darkens.
It is the location of the historic Winter Palace, which was sacked during the Russian Revolution but later became the Hermitage Museum.
The first Russian city modeled after European cities, it was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, who wanted to make it his “window to the West”; renamed Petrograd at the start of World War I and then Leningrad in 1924 in honor of Lenin.
With the collapse of communism, the city was renamed St. Petersburg.
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He and his wife moved to Georgia for two years after Russia launched its offensive, before returning to Saint Petersburg.
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With hundreds of thousands of soldiers coming back from the front wounded, Russia's prosthetics workshops -- like the one outside Saint Petersburg where AFP met Dmitry -- have been filling up with ex-fighters.
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Within twenty minutes, Tomás and Chase’s father had parked the rigs in one of the buildings, loaded their 4x4s with supplies, and were on their way to Saint Petersburg.
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And though President Vladimir Putin recently hailed a cooling of inflation amid high interest rates, pensioners in the Saint Petersburg soup kitchen say their situation is still dire.
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"The strategically important cargo was discovered during checks on a sea container at the port of Saint Petersburg," the customs service said in a statement.
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