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'''St Petersburg''' (Russian: Санкт-Петербург), the "Northern Capital of [[Russia]]," is the country's second largest city and is located on the River Neva close to the Gulf of [[Finland]]. During the [[Russian Revolution]] the Provisional Government renamed the city as '''Petrograd'''; the [[Soviet]]s then seized power and renamed the city '''Leningrad''' after [[Lenin]] the leader of the [[communism|Bolsheviks]].