Where is Leningrad on a map?

Answer 1

It is now St. Petersburg. It is at the head of the Gulf of Finland, which is a branch off the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

Czar Peter the Great of Russia lived for a number of years in England, being apprenticed to Chatham Dockyard. This occurred during the 1660's/1670's. when he was a teenager. Who saw Sir Christopher Wren re-building London, after the Great Fire of London ( 1666) , and today St. Paul's Cathedral , the Wren Churches and the Monument(to the Great Fire) in London were erected.

Peter the Great thought "I'll have some of that when I get back home".

So when he went home to Russia as the Czar, he had his tradesmen, serfs, slaves ( yes!!!! slaves) build St. Petersburg. ( Note the name) , on marsh land at the head of the Gulf of Finland. Today when viewed , the building of St. Petersburg have a classical similarity to Wren's buildings in London.

The place was name St. Petersburg, and remained so , until the Russian Revolution in 1917. Whereupon, it was renamed 'Leningrad', after the communist Russian leader, Lenin. The city reverted to its original name in 1990 under Mikhael Gorbachev, and 'perestroika' ( re-structuring).

Besides its classical style buildings, St. Petersburg is also known for its 'white nights'; in the Summer daylight doesn't completely go dark, because of its northern latitude.

Answer 2

Leningrad is now Saint Petersburg, located at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea in northwestern Russia.