Saint Petersburg
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- Names
Sankt-Peterburg
Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Leningrad
Leningrado
Petrograd
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Gulf of Finland; was important cultural center since 18th century; center of Russian Revolution 1917-1918; threatened by Hitler 1941-1942; nation's center for production of machinery and armaments; noted for 18th-century Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- BHA, Authority file (1973-); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Getty Vocabulary Program rules; NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-); Times Atlas of the World (1992); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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