Saint-Petersburg — tarayya birnin Rasha, da Gudanarwa cibiyar Arewa-West Tarayya District da Birnin Leningrad, yankin. Located in arewa maso yamma na Rasha Federation, a kan bakin tekun na Gulf of Finland a bakin Neva River. 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. Yawan - 5.131.942 mutane .. St. Petersburg - shi ne northernmost birnin a duniya tare da yawan kan daya mutane miliyan. Daga cikin birane cikakken a Turai, St. Petersburg ne na uku mafi yawan, kuma na farko a yawan mazauna birnin ba a babban birnin kasar.