Saint Petersburg .
Leningrad was the name given to the city of Petrograd after Lenin's death. The name of St. Petersburg had already been changed in 1914 to Petrograd.
The Bolshevik Revolution, also known as the October Revolution of 1917, took place mainly in Petrograd, Russia, but it occurred in many other larger cities as well. Petrograd had been known as St. Petersburg but the name during WWI. St. Petersburg had been the Tsarist capital city of Russia and remained the capital under the Provisional Government set up when the Tsar abdicated after the February Revolution of 1917. When the Provisional Government in Petrograd proved to be no better than Tsarist rule, the people refused to support it. Lenin and the Bolsheviks simply stepped in and took power from the main governing body in Petrograd and announced that governmental power was now vested in the workers' councils (called Soviets) that had formed in the larger cities.
He attended a meeting of Bolshevik leaders in Petrograd.
Constantinople Named after the last of the greatest Emperors Constantine before the Dark Ages.
The capital was St Petersburg, which was renamed Petrograd in World War 1.
Both Petrograd and Leningrad .
St. PetersburgSt Petersburg
Leningrad was the name given to the city of Petrograd after Lenin's death. The name of St. Petersburg had already been changed in 1914 to Petrograd.
Petrograd (Currently St. Petersburg) which was the capital at the time
Petrograd Soviet was created in 1917.
St. Petersburg was founded with the name St. Petersburg. In 1914, when World War I broke out, the name was changed to Petrograd. In 1924, when Vladimir I. Lenin died, it was changed to Leningrad. In 1999, it was returned to its original name, St. Petersburg.
Lenin returned to Petrograd in April, 1917.
The oldest Slavic city was Veliky Novgorod (renamed to just "Novgorod" in 1999) The city was mentioned for the first time in the "Sofia First Chronicle". It says that around the year of 859 the Varangians already used the city as a trading post which means that it is possible that the city was founded even before 859 A.D. The Varangians named the city Holmgard.
St. Petersburg is the original and current name of the city that was called Leningrad under Soviet control. The city was named St. Petersburg until 1914, Petrograd from 1914-1924, Leningrad from 1924-1991, and returned to being called St. Petersburg in 1991.
Leningrad was originally named Saint Petersburg when it was founded. In 1914, it was changed to Petrograd, and in 1924, it was changed again to Leningrad.
The February Revolution in Russia in 1917 broke out spontaneously in Petrograd, Russia as a city wide protest demonstration and general strike. Things then spread to other cities as well and calmed down only when news of the Tsar's abdication was announced. Petrograd had been St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad and is now St. Petersburg again.
St. Petersburg Russia was changed to petrograd during Alexander the Great's rule.