
Saint Petersburg in Brief
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The federal city of St. Petersburg, the Сapital of Leningrad Region, is a Russian port city situated at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea.
The City was founded by Tsar Peter I on May 27, 1703.
The Swiss-Italian architect Domenico Trezzini was his first great builder of his new Capital.
St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia with a metropolitan population of 5,225,690. As of 2016.
In Europe, it makes it the 3rd largest one ( after Moscow and London ), the 1st one not being a capital and the northernmost one in the world with more than 1 million population. The City is divided into eighteen districts which are in turn subdivided into municipal towns and municipal settlements.
There are 342 bridges in the “Venice of the North” — 13 of which are drawbridges across the Neva River, the main waterway of the City....