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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 . The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of ...
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject located in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia. It stands at the mouth of the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland (part of the Baltic Sea ). The area of the city of Saint Petersburg proper is 605.8 km 2 (233.9 sq mi). As a federal subject Saint Petersburg contains, besides ...
The Saint Petersburg Metro (Russian: Петербургский метрополитен, romanized: Peterburgskiy metropoliten) is a rapid transit system in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Construction began in early 1941, but was put on hold due to World War II and the subsequent Siege of Leningrad, during which the constructed stations were used ...
Not to be confused with the Port of St. Petersburg in the United States. The Great Port of St. Petersburg ( Russian: Большой порт Санкт-Петербург) or Port of St. Petersburg is a major seaport serving the city of St. Petersburg in northwest Russia. The port's water area is 164.6 km 2 (630,000 square meters) [citation ...
The federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, is divided into eighteen rayony(rie-yawhny) ("districts", Russian: районы, singular: rayon), which are in turn subdivided into municipal okrugs, municipal towns, and municipal settlements.
1716 – Catholic Church of St. Catherine founded. 1718 – Saint Petersburg Police established. 1719 – Summer Garden laid out. 1720. Hermitage Bridge opens. New Holland Island created. 1721 – Ligovsky Canal constructed. 1724. Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded.
Saint Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia, after Moscow and the fourth most populous city in Europe. 2002 census recorded population of the federal subject 4,661,219, or 3.21% of the total population of Russia. The city with its vicinity has an estimated population of about 6 million people. According to Rosstat, in 2021 the city's ...
Vasilyevsky Island. / 59.94; 30.26. Vasilyevsky Island ( Russian: Васи́льевский о́стров, Vasilyevsky Ostrov, V.O.) is an island in St. Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva Rivers (in the delta of the Neva River) in the south and northeast, and by Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland in the west.