Sankt-Peterburg
Sankt-Peterburg

Sankt-Peterburg

Gorod Sankt-Peterburg, the Russian federal subject

geographical area, settlement, area within a nation, city, town or city, Russian federal subject, World Heritage Site, Russian federal city, administrative area within a nation above city-level, listed site, university city

Location
Russia, Leningradskaya Oblast’, the MSST region
Location of
October Revolution; Siege of Leningrad; Winter Palace; Pravda; Hermitage Museum;  …
Country, Second City of
Russia
Population
4,662,000; 4,661,219
Website
http://eng.gov.spb.ru
Area
606 square kilometres
Births
Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Putin, Ayn Rand, Anton Yelchin, Nicholas II of Russia,  …
Capital of
Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Origin of
Kino, Leningrad, Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov, Alexander Rosenbaum,  …
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg
Leader
Anatoly Sobchak
Contents
Rossiya, LOMO, Saint Petersburg State University, Russian-American Company, Northern Light Group,  …
Broadcast Area of
Echo of Moscow
Established
1703
Closest Airport
Pulkovo Airport
Deaths
Grigori Rasputin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Pavlov, Catherine II of Russia,  …
Coordinates
59°55'60"N, 30°20'00"E
End of
European route E18, Moscow – Saint Petersburg motorway, European route E95
Nearest Settlement of
Lakhtinsky Razliv, Ligovsky Pond
Borders
Pushkin, Gulf of Finland
Residents
Joseph Stalin, Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Putin, Ayn Rand, Anton Yelchin,  …
Telephone Code
+7.812
The Area Served By
TGC-1, TGC-1, Yota
Mouth of
Neva
Class
Russian federal subject, Russian federal city, administrative area within a nation above city-level, university city, World Heritage Site,  …
Featured in
Franz Liszt. Dreams of love
Theme of
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Burying the sun, The bronze horseman, Valse des fleurs, Ice road
Former Name
"Petrograd", "Leningrad"
Gns Unique Feature Identifier
"-2996338", "-2945108"
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000000356e6"
Related Websites
http://http://www.visit-petersburg.com, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Visit-Petersburg/144527348903499, http://www.visit-petersburg.com, http://rbth.ru/articles/2009/08/28/280809_peter.html, http://free-writer.ru/pages/st.petersburg.html,  …
Open Calais URI
http://d.opencalais.com/er/company/ralg-tr1r/79192b8b-382a-3fea-8108-1bb1db05b53f, http://d.opencalais.com/er/company/ralg-tr1r/dbb1a595-1d65-3545-a981-4941cd39e211, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/1204bbff-c898-a3d6-fec0-d8c4cc93397a
Visited by
Ayn Rand, Vladimir Lenin, Aleksandr Kolchak, Alexandre Jacovleff, Sergey Malov,  …
Things Running Through
European route E20, M10 highway, European route E105
Iso 3166:2 Code
"RU-SPE"
GeoNames URL
http://sws.geonames.org/498817/
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Saint_Petersburg
Met Office ID
"57"
Aliases
"at leningrad", "at st petersburg", "at saint petersburg", "in leningrad", "in st petersburg",  …
Time Zone Area
the MSST region
Rare Terms
"stpetersburg", "st.petersburg"
Founded here
Loudtalks
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/06pr6"

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