Sankt
Peterburg was
the capital of the Russian
empire until the Russian
Revolution of 1917 when
the power of the new
Soviet state moved to
Moscow. In 1914, the
town changed its name
from the German Sankt
Petersburg into Russian
Petrograd, but after
Lenin died in 1924 it
was renamed into Leningrad.
Just before the end
of the Soviet period,
in 1991, the city's
inhabitants decided
to go back to its original
name Sankt Peter(s)burg.
Today the city has 4.7
million inhabitants.
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