Petrograd The name of Russia’s capital city, St Petersburg, was changed to Petrograd at the beginning of the First World War because it sounded more Russian and less German than the original. From 1924 to 1991 it was named Leningrad in honour of Lenin.
AQA 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964
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