September 6th

On this day – 6th of September –
1991 was Leningrad renamed Saint Petersburg

In 1991 was the second largest city in Russia renamed St. Petersburg. The city held the name Petrograd between 1914 and 1924. The reason for this name change was to eliminate the German words Sankt and Burg. In 1924 was the name changed to Leningrad in honour of Lenins death. In 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union was the city given back its old name, Saint Petersburg. The city was original named after its founder, Tsar Peter the Great, in 1703 and the city functioned as the capital of Russia between 1713 and 1728.