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Princeton's WordNet

  1. St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburgnoun

    a city in western Florida on Tampa Bay; a popular winter resort

  2. St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburgnoun

    a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia

Wikipedia

  1. St. Petersburg

    St. Petersburg is a song from British rock band Supergrass 2005 album, Road to Rouen. It was released on 8 August 2005 as the first single from the album and charted at #22 in the UK Singles Chart, and was their final top 40 hit. (see 2005 in British music).

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  1. st. petersburg

    St. Petersburg is a city located in Russia. It is known for its significant historical and cultural heritage, having served as Russia's capital from 1712 to 1918. Named after Saint Peter the apostle, it is often referred to as the "Venice of the North" due to its many canals, bridges, and architectural beauty, featuring landmarks like the Hermitage Museum, Nevsky Prospect, and the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. It is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow and lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. St. Petersburg

    capital of Russia, an imposing city, occupying a dreary, isolated site at the head of the Gulf of Finland, on the banks and delta islands (100) of the Neva, founded in 1702 by Peter the Great; a large number of bridges span the main stream and its numerous divisions; massive stone quays hold back the waters, but a rise of 12 ft. floods the city (a yearly occurrence in the poorer parts); the river is ice-bound nearly half the year, and is given over to sleighing, &c.; the short summer is hot; covers nearly 48 sq. m.; its palaces and government buildings for number and grandeur are unsurpassed; Neva View is the finest street in Europe; is the centre of Russian political, literary, scientific, and artistic life; has a university, numerous academies, cathedral, technical and training colleges, and libraries (the Imperial Public Library contains 1,200,000 vols.); connected with the Volga basin by a canal, and the centre of four railways, it is the commercial metropolis and chief port of Russia, and carries on half the foreign trade; exports one-fifth of the corn of Russia, besides flax, linseed, leather, petroleum, &c.; imports coal, machinery, &c.; principal manufactures are cotton goods and other textiles, leather, sugar, porcelain goods, &c.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of st. petersburg in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of st. petersburg in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of st. petersburg in a Sentence

  1. Matthias Warnig:

    It’s thought the two may have met through their respective secret services in the former East Germany, but the official line is that they only made contact later, in St. Petersburg, after both had changed profession.

  2. President Putin:

    Well, let's take St. Petersburg Economic Forum, for instance, there were over 500 American businessmen, high-ranking, high-level ones. I don't even remember the last names of each and every one of them. Well, do you remember -- do you think that we try to collect compromising material on each and every single one of them ? Well, it's difficult to imagine an utter nonsense of a bigger scale than this. Well, please, just disregard these issues and don't think about this anymore again.

  3. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia:

    In St. Petersburg we work, but at Livadia, we live.

  4. British Museum:

    The British Museum is a museum of the world, for the world and nothing demonstrates this more than the loan of a Parthenon sculpture to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to celebrate its 250th anniversary.

  5. Carter Page:

    No, I've never been an agent of a foreign power by any stretch of the imagination, i may have, back in the G20 when they were getting ready to do that in St. Petersburg, I might have participated in a few meetings that a lot of people -- including people from the Obama administration -- were sitting on, and Geneva, Paris, et cetera, but I've never been anywhere near what's being described here.

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