Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd, then Leningrad, is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow. With over 5.3 million inhabitants as of 2018, it is the fourth-most populous city in Europe. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject.The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703, on the site of a captured Swedish fortress. It served as a capital of the Russian Tsardom and the subsequent Russian Empire from 1713 to 1918. After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks moved their government to Moscow. Read More
Russia is set to mark Navy Day on Sunday with naval parades on virtually all the country's fleet bases, chief among them the parade in the naval capital of St. Petersburg. ...
Russia has registered 6,428 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours (6,422 yesterday), bringing the cumulative total to 752,797, the country's coronavirus response centre said on Thursday. ...
Russia has registered 6,422 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total to 746,369, the country's coronavirus response centre said on Wednesday. ...
Russia has recorded 6,611 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, which brings the cumulative total to 687,862, the response centre said Monday. ...
