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Saint Petersburg, also known as Leningrad under the Soviet regime. St. Petersburg owing to the marshy soil has the deepest subway system of any major city. The city was the capital ( or at least co-capital) under the Czars and as we all know Stacy preferred it to Moscow. Sometimes even jocularily called ( Stacy-Town)

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