was stalingrad ever a capital
The Russian city of Volgograd was renamed Stalingrad for the day on Saturday and pictures of Josef Stalin's face were put on buses, as Russia remembered the epic battle that turned the tide of the Second World War in the city that bore the dictator's name.
Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27 [ O.S. 16] 1703. Between 1713â1728 and 1732â1918, Saint Petersburg was the imperial capital of Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved from Saint Petersburg (then named Petrograd) to Moscow.