A 1712-1918 shekaru - babban birnin kasar Rasha a jihar. [7] A cikin birnin akwai abubuwa uku juyin juya halin na 1905-1907, da Fabrairu bourgeois-mulkin demokraɗiyya juyin juya halin na 1917, da Oktoba Socialist juyin juya halin na 1917. A lokacin girma Patriotic War na 1941-1945, birnin game da 900 a cikin kwanaki blockade, wanda ke haifar da har zuwa 1.5 mutane miliyan mutu a dalilin matsananciyar yunwa. St. Petersburg na da take Hero City (1965). An hada da uku ""Shina soja Tsarki ya tabbata"": Kronstadt, Kolpino, Lomonosov.