Светлана Ульянова Экскурсовод по Санкт-Петербургу и Ленинградской области

Saint-Petersburg (after Saint-Peter, who was the patron saint of the founder of the city Peter the Great)

Petrograd 1914-1924 (Dutch ending –burg sounded like German, it was the First World War, we were fighting Germany – so the city was given the name with Russian ending –grad, which means – town)

1025-1991 Lenin who made the revolution died they renamed it after him – Leningrad

1992-nowdays Saint-Petersburg, when it was perestroika they didn’t like Lenin anymore