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Sankt-Peterburg

Sankt-Peterburg is the alternative form of Saint Petersburg.

Meaning of Saint Petersburg

Proper noun

Saint Petersburg

  1. A federal city of Russia, known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad; the former capital of Russia, from 1713–1728 and 1732–1918.
  2. A city in Florida, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Colorado, United States.

Origin of Sankt-Peterburg

Transliteration of Russian Санкт-Петербу́рг (Sankt-Peterbúrg).

Questions about Sankt-Peterburg

What is Sankt-Peterburg the alternative form of?
Sankt-Peterburg is the alternative form of Saint Petersburg.

Words near Sankt-Peterburg in the dictionary

  1. sanks
  2. Sankt Anton am Arlberg
  3. Sankt Goar
  4. Sankt Veit an der Glan
  5. Sankt Veit im Pongau
  6. Sankt-Peterburg
  7. sanky
  8. sanky-pankies
  9. sanky-panky
  10. sankyu
  11. sankyuu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sankt-Peterburg (page history and authors); Saint Petersburg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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