Leningrad

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city

Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, is a major Russian city on the Baltic Sea that served as the imperial capital and endured a devastating World War II siege.

Aliases (2)

Petrograd ×29
City of Leningrad ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city →
casualtiesDuringSiege	hundreds of thousands of civilians →
country	Russia → Soviet Union →
currentName	Saint Petersburg →
dateRenamedFromPetrograd	1924-01-26 →
dateRenamedToSaintPetersburg	1991-09-06 →
formerNameOf	Saint Petersburg →
foundationDate	1703-05-27 →
foundedAs	Saint Petersburg →
foundedBy	Peter the Great →
hasCulturalHeritage	Hermitage Museum → Winter Palace → historic city center → palaces and museums →
hasTransport	international airport → railway hub → seaport →
hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite	Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments →
heroCityTitleDate	1945 →
historicalEra	Soviet era →
isMajor	cultural center of Russia → industrial center → port city →
language	Russian →
locatedIn	Leningrad Oblast NERFINISHED → Northwestern Federal District →
locatedNear	Baltic Sea →
locatedOn	Gulf of Finland → Neva River →
namedAfter	Vladimir Lenin →
partOf	Russian SFSR NERFINISHED → USSR NERFINISHED →
populationEstimate	over 4,000,000 →
recognizedAs	Hero City →
role	imperial capital of Russia →
servedAs	capital of the Russian Empire → capital of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic →
siegeBy	Finnish forces → Nazi Germany →
siegeDuration	about 872 days →
siegeEndDate	1944-01-27 →
siegeStartDate	1941-09-08 →
significantEvent	Siege of Leningrad →
wasBesiegedDuring	World War II →
wasRenamedFrom	Petrograd →
wasRenamedTo	Saint Petersburg →

Referenced by (57)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
April Crisis of 1917 ("Petrograd") → Council of Ministers ("Petrograd") → Kornilov Affair ("Petrograd") → Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering ("Petrograd") → Petrograd Soviet ("Petrograd") → Red Terror ("Petrograd") → Siege of Leningrad → Soviet montage school → War Ministry of the Russian Empire ("Petrograd") →	location
Alexander Friedmann ("Petrograd") → Alexander Friedmann → Andrei Zhdanov → Felix Dzerzhinsky ("Petrograd") → Nadezhda Krupskaya ("Petrograd") → Yakov Sverdlov ("Petrograd") → Zhores Alferov →	workLocation
Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) → Cheka ("Petrograd") → Council of Ministers ("Petrograd") → Leningrad Front (Soviet Union) → Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ("Petrograd") → War Ministry of the Russian Empire ("Petrograd") →	headquartersLocation
Leningrad Front (Soviet Union) → Leningrad Oblast → Medal for the Defence of Leningrad →	namedAfter
July Days ("Petrograd") → Storming of the Winter Palace ("Petrograd") →	hasLocation
Leningrad State University → Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism →	locatedIn
Alexander Friedmann → Sergei Kirov →	placeOfDeath
Alexander Kerensky ("Petrograd") → Yakov Sverdlov ("Petrograd") →	residence
Dmitry Medvedev →	birthPlace
Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering ("Petrograd") →	city
Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism →	cityDuringExistence
Road of Life →	connects
Finnish offensive of 1941 →	didNotCapture
Leningrad Oblast →	formerAdministrativeCenter
Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) →	garrison
Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering ("Petrograd") →	locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Medal for the Defence of Leningrad →	locationOfServiceRequired
Order of the October Revolution ("City of Leningrad") →	notableRecipient
Decree on Peace ("Petrograd") →	place
Lavr Kornilov ("Petrograd") →	placeOfActivity
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow →	placeOfBirth
April Theses ("Petrograd") →	placeOfPresentation
The State and Revolution ("Petrograd") →	placeOfPublication
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ("Petrograd") →	previousName
Army Group North →	primaryObjective
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ("Petrograd") →	renamedFrom
Amundsen–Ellsworth–Nobile expedition →	routePoint
Lake Ladoga ice road →	servedCity
October: Ten Days That Shook the World ("Petrograd") →	setInLocation
City of Thieves →	setting
Lake Ladoga ice road →	startPoint
Leningrad ("Petrograd") →	wasRenamedFrom