After Alexander II abolished Russian serfdom, St. Petersburg's industry developed rapidly, establishing machinery, shipbuilding, electricity, food and other industries, and forming the industrial working class.
1825, a group of Russian aristocrats launched the The Decemberists Uprising in St. Petersburg. 1905 After the defeat of the Russian Second Baltic Fleet in the naval battle against Ma Haixia, the "Bloody Sunday" incident broke out in St. Petersburg. The February Revolution, the bourgeois revolution, the October Revolution and the proletarian uprising broke out in this city. After the October Revolution, due to World War I, the German army approached St. Petersburg and the capital was about to fall. The Soviet Union moved its capital to Moscow in 19 18. 1924 St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad.
1934 Kirov was assassinated in Leningrad, which opened the prelude to the great purge of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Leningrad was blocked by the Germans for more than 900 days and became one of the first "hero cities" in the Soviet Union after the war. Because Leningrad has always been a gathering place of Soviet intellectuals and scholars, Stalin took a hostile attitude towards Leningrad before Kirov's assassination. Some Russian historians say that Stalin deliberately delayed the clearing of Leningrad in order to starve more intellectuals. People evacuated from cities during the war are not allowed to return home after the war. After the war, Stalin also created the "Qi Danov case" against local leaders Kuznetsov and Wozniacki in Leningrad.
Leningrad was rebuilt after World War II and once again became one of the industrial centers of the Soviet Union. Despite the influx of the working class after the war, the city still maintains its position as a cultural and artistic center. At the same time, due to its proximity to Finland, the city became one of the few cities in the Soviet era that could directly receive western TV programs. Every year, 350,000 Soviet tourists travel to Finland via Leningrad.
Sobchak was the mayor of Leningrad at the end of1968+1980s. He followed the reform policy of Russian President Yeltsin, and the city took a stand against the Soviet coup on August 6th, 2009. 1991September 6, the citizens of this city passed a resolution to restore the old name of "St. Petersburg" with a majority of 54%.
St Petersburg used to be a swamp at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The surrounding area, including the land around the Gulf of Finland, is called "Ingermann Land" (Swedish) and belongs to the Kingdom of Sweden. Tsar Peter I launched a 2 1 Northern War with Sweden at the beginning of the 700th century in order to compete for the sea port facing western Europe. Peter I took Gorman land from Sweden and built a city here, named St. Petersburg. 1713-1714 Peter the Great moved his capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, which became the capital of the Russian Empire. After the continuous construction of Catherine the Great, Alexander I and Nicholas II, it became the political, economic and cultural center of the Russian Empire. Pushkin called it Russia's "window to the west".
After Alexander II abolished Russian serfdom, St. Petersburg's industry developed rapidly, establishing machinery, shipbuilding, electricity, food and other industries, and forming the industrial working class.
1825, a group of Russian aristocrats launched the The Decemberists Uprising in St. Petersburg. 1905 After the defeat of the Russian Second Baltic Fleet in the naval battle against Ma Haixia, the "Bloody Sunday" incident broke out in St. Petersburg. The February Revolution, the bourgeois revolution, the October Revolution and the proletarian uprising broke out in this city. After the October Revolution, due to World War I, the German army approached St. Petersburg and the capital was about to fall. The Soviet Union moved its capital to Moscow in 19 18. 1924 St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad.
1934 Kirov was assassinated in Leningrad, which opened the prelude to the great purge of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Leningrad was blocked by the Germans for more than 900 days and became one of the first "hero cities" in the Soviet Union after the war. Because Leningrad has always been a gathering place of Soviet intellectuals and scholars, Stalin took a hostile attitude towards Leningrad before Kirov's assassination. Some Russian historians say that Stalin deliberately delayed the clearing of Leningrad in order to starve more intellectuals. People evacuated from cities during the war are not allowed to return home after the war. After the war, Stalin also created the "Qi Danov case" against local leaders Kuznetsov and Wozniacki in Leningrad.
Leningrad was rebuilt after World War II and once again became one of the industrial centers of the Soviet Union. Despite the influx of the working class after the war, the city still maintains its position as a cultural and artistic center. At the same time, due to its proximity to Finland, the city became one of the few cities in the Soviet era that could directly receive western TV programs. Every year, 350,000 Soviet tourists travel to Finland via Leningrad.
Sobchak was the mayor of Leningrad at the end of1968+1980s. He followed the reform policy of Russian President Yeltsin, and the city took a stand against the Soviet coup on August 6th, 2009. 1991September 6, the citizens of this city passed a resolution to restore the old name of "St. Petersburg" with a majority of 54%.