Are Petersburg and St. Petersburg the same thing?

St. Petersburg is the second largest port and city in Russia.

Petrograd and Leningrad, St. Petersburg are one place.

St. Petersburg is Russian.

Founded in 1703, St. Petersburg is the capital of the Leningrad Region and the cultural, political, economic, industrial, and technological center of Russia. Because it is the most westernized city in Russia, it is Russia's window to Europe. It is home to more than 4,000 industrial enterprises and is an international city with a high degree of development in science, technology and industry.

Advantages of St. Petersburg:

St. Petersburg is a city on the water, known as the Venice of the North. St. Petersburg can be said to be the second largest city in Russia, which is very developed in terms of economy, industry, transportation, and tourism, and is also one of the fastest growing cities in Russia.

St. Petersburg is home to more than 4,000 industrial enterprises, the output of which accounts for 6% of Russia's total industrial output, and industrial products sell well throughout the country. St. Petersburg is the financial center of the Northwestern Federal Region of Russia, and the number of credit institutions is second only to Moscow.

St. Petersburg is the second largest transport hub in Russia, where several railway lines intersect, and has the largest seaport in Russia and an important international air port. 11 routes are connected to more than 200 cities in China and more than 20 countries.

St. Petersburg is located in the northwest of Russia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Neva River, between 59° 60° north latitude and 29° 30° east longitude.

The capital of the Leningrad Region, the central city of Northwest Russia, an important water and land transportation hub in Russia, is the northernmost city in the world with a population of more than one million, and is also known as the "Northern Capital" of Russia. St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia, with an area of 1,439 square kilometers, of which 606 square kilometers are urban areas.

Topography

St. Petersburg consists of nearly 100 islands and floodplains in the Neva Delta, with a low terrain of only one meter above sea level, and plains and hills south of the Neva River.

ClimateSt. Petersburg has a continental climate with mild oceanic influences. The average temperature throughout the year, with annual precipitation of 585 mm. Summers are mild, with average temperatures in July, the hottest month.

The winter is cold, the average temperature in winter is below zero, the coldest month in January is minus 8, the snow cover period lasts for 132 days, and the freezing period is from mid-November to mid-to-late April of the following year.

HydroSt. Petersburg is spread over 44 islands and is connected by more than 580 bridges, of which 20 are drawbridges (7 across the Neva River) that can be used for boat crossing. There are 93 canals in the city, the water area accounts for one-tenth of the city's area, the total length of the river is 35 kilometers, and the coastline is 35 kilometers.

Russia has only one capital, and that is Moscow.

Moscow is the capital and largest city of the Russian Federation, founded in 1147, located on the banks of the Moscow River in the Russian Plain, in the middle of the European part of Russia, in the middle of the Eastern European Plain, across the banks of the Moskva River and its tributary Yauzha River.

Moscow is the political, economic, scientific, cultural and transportation center of Russia. Although it is an inland city, it is a veritable transportation center with 90 million tons of inland waterway transportation per year through the Moscow Canal and the Volga River, which runs through the city and communicates with the Volga River.

Administrative divisions

In 1968, the whole city of Moscow was divided into 30 districts (including the new town of Zelenograd outside the ring road), of which 13 inner districts were less populous and less than 17 outer districts.

After 1991, the city of Moscow was divided into 10 administrative districts, each of which was subdivided. 11 and 12 of them were transferred from the Moscow region on July 1, 2012, increasing the area of the city of Moscow to 2,510 km and bordering the Kaluga region.

The above content refers to the Encyclopedia - Moscow.

St. Petersburg is also known as Petrograd, Leningrad, Venice of the North. It was called "St. Petersburg" until 1914 and "Petrograd" from 1914 to 1924. Called Leningrad after the October Revolution, St. Petersburg was restored after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It is the second largest city in Russia after Moscow, on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Neva River. In 1703, it was built as a fortress and became the gateway to the sea of Imperial Russia. From 1712 to March 1918, it was the capital of Imperial Russia and Soviet Russia.

It was here in 1917 that Lenin led the October Socialist Revolution.