Saint Petersburg (rus)

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg ranks 12th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Berlin, Budapest, and Brooklyn. Memorable people born in Saint Petersburg include Vladimir Putin, Ayn Rand, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Memorable people who died in Saint Petersburg include Joseph Orbeli, Auguste de Montferrand, and Innokenty Annensky. Saint Petersburg has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Saint Petersburg is located in Russia.

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. 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 the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. Read more on Wikipedia