Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27 (O.S. 16) 1703. On 01 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: Петрогра́д, IPA: (pjɪtrɐˈgrat)), on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: Ленингра́д, IPA: (ljɪnjɪnˈgrat)), and on 07 September 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. Between 1713 and 1728 and in 1732 -- 1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow.
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