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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...
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Saint Petersburg.
Petrograd may also
refer to:
Central Petrograd,
Petrograd, Russia; the city
centre Petrograd Island,
Petrograd, Russia; the origin...
- The
Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers'
Deputies (Russian: Петроградский совет рабочих и солдатских депутатов,
Petrogradsky soviet rabochih i soldatskikh...
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Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It
began through an
insurrection in
Petrograd (now
Saint Petersburg) on 7
November 1917 [O.S. 25 October]. It was the...
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Russia in 1917. The main
events of the
revolution took
place in and near
Petrograd (now
Saint Petersburg), the then-capital of Russia,
where long-standing...
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During the
civil unrest,
soviet councils were
formed by the
locals in
Petrograd that
initially did not
oppose the new
Provisional Government; however...
- The
siege of
Leningrad was a
military blockade undertaken by the Axis
powers against the city of
Leningrad (present-day
Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet...
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Battle of
Petrograd was a
campaign by the
White movement to take the city of
Petrograd (at
various times called Saint Petersburg,
Petrograd, and Leningrad;...
- 1914, with the
start of the
First World War, the
university was
renamed Petrograd Imperial University after its
namesake city.
During the War, the university...
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crossing and then to
Helsinki before taking the
final train to
Petrograd.
Arriving at
Petrograd's Finland Station in April,
Lenin gave a
speech to Bolshevik...
