Saint Petersburg City Tour | St Petersburg – 2nd Largest City of Russia

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd, then Leningrad is a city situated 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 over 5.3 million inhabitants as of 2018, it is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, as well as being the northernmost megalopolis.
The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, on the site of a captured Swedish fortress. It served as a capital of the Russian Tsardom and the subsequent Russian Empire. After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks moved their government to Moscow.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years, from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944.
The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. It isolated the city from food supplies except those provided through the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga, which could not make it through until the lake literally froze. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.

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