Saint Petersburg

This article is about the Russian city. For the American city, see St. Petersburg, Florida. For other uses, see Saint Petersburg (disambiguation).

"Leningrad" and "Petrograd" redirect here. For other uses, see Leningrad (disambiguation) and Petrograd (disambiguation).

Saint Petersburg,^{[lower-alpha 3]} formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad,^{[lower-alpha 4]} is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021,^[3] with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of Imperial Russia, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city.

Saint Petersburg Санкт-Петербург
Federal city