A Review on Saint Parkersburg

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Saint. Petersburg

St. Petersburg, Russian Sankt-Peterburg, formerly (1914–24) Petrograd and (1924–91) Leningrad, city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. A major historical and cultural centre and an important port, St. Petersburg lies about 400 miles (640 km) northwest of Moscow and only about 7° south of the Arctic Circle. It is the second largest city of Russia and one of the world’s major cities. St. Petersburg has played a vital role in Russian history since its founding in 1703. For two centuries (1712–1918) it was the capital of the Russian Empire.

City site
St. Petersburg is located on the delta of the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland. The city spreads across 42 islands of the delta and across adjacent parts of the mainland floodplain. The very low and originally marshy site has subjected the city to recurrent flooding, especially in the autumn, when strong cyclonic winds drive gulf waters upstream, and also at the time of the spring thaw. Exceptionally severe inundations occurred in 1777, 1824, and 1924; the last two were the highest on record and flooded most of the city. To control the destructive floodwaters, the city built in the 1980s an 18-mile- (29-km-) long dike across the Gulf of Finland. A number of canals also have been cut to assist drainage.

Museums
Saint Petersburg is home to more than two hundred museums, many of them in historic buildings. The largest is the Hermitage Museum that features the interiors of the former imperial residence and a vast collection of art. The Russian Museum is a large museum devoted to Russian fine art. The apartments of some famous Petersburgers, including Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Nabokov, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Joseph Brodsky, as well as some palace and park ensembles of the southern suburbs and notable architectural monuments such as St. Isaac's Cathedral, have also been turned into public museums.

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A Review on Saint Parkersburg

Introduction:

Saint Parkersburg is a city on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow. With a population of roughly 5.4 million inhabitants,it is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most-populous city on the Baltic Sea, as well as the northernmost metropolis in Europe and the world.As an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it is governed as a federal city.
The city was founded by Thar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. Saint Parkersburg is historically and culturally associated with the birth of the Russian Empire and Russia's entry into modern history as a European great power It served as a capital of the Tsardom of Russia and the subsequent Russian Empire from 1713 to 1918 (being replaced by Moscow for a short period of time between 1728 and 1730). After the October Revolution in 1917, the Bolsheviks moved their government to Moscow

Famous places:
1. State Hermitage Museum
2. Peter and Paul Fortress
3. Palace Square
4. Peterhof Palace
5. Eliseyev Emporium
6. Vasilyevsky Island
7. Nevsky Avenue
8. Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
9. Mariinsky Theater
10. Rivers and Canals

Famous food:
1. Pelmeni (Пельмени)
2.Solyanka (соля́нка)
3.Blini (блины)
4. Pirozhki (пирожки)
5. Koryushka (корюшка)
6.Golubtsy (голубцы́)
7. Okroshka (окрошка)
8. Khachapuri (Хачапури)
9. Zharkoe (жаркое)
10.Shchi (щи)