Saint Petersburg

English

Alternative forms

• St. Petersburg, St. Petersburgh

Etymology

English translation of Russian Санкт-Петербу́рг (Sankt-Peterbúrg), from German Sankt Petersburg (“Saint Peter's City”), referring to Saint Peter the Apostle and alluding to its founder Tsar Peter the Great.

Proper noun

Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург Sankt-Peterburg)

Saint Petersburg

1. A major city in Russia, known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad, and former capital of Russia (1713–1728, 1732–1918).

Translations

city

• Abkhaz: Санқт-Петербург (Sānkṭ-Ṗeṭerburg)
• Afrikaans: Sint Petersburg
• Albanian: Shën Petersburgu m
• Amharic: ሳንክት ፔቴርቡርግ (sankt peterburg)
• Arabic: سَانْت بُطْرُسْبُرْغ‏‎ m (sant buṭrusburḡ)
• Armenian: Սանկտ Պետերբուրգ (Sankt Peterburg)
• Azeri: Sankt-Peterburq
• Bashkir: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Belarusian: Санкт-Пецярбу́рг m (Sankt-Pjecjarbúrh), Пецярбу́рг m (Pjecjarbúrh)
• Bulgarian: Санкт Петербу́рг m (Sankt Peterbúrg)
• Buryat: Саанкта-Петербүүргэ (Saankta-Peterbüürge)
• Catalan: Sant Petersburg m
• Chechen: Петарбух (Petarbuχ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖彼得堡 (zh), 圣彼得堡 (zh) (Shèng-Bǐdebǎo)

• Chuvash: Питӗрпурк (Pitĕrpurk)
• Czech: Sankt Petěrburg m, Petrohrad (cs) m
• Danish: Sankt Petersborg
• Dutch: Sint-Petersburg (nl)
• Erzya: Ине-Петрань ош (Ine-Petranʹ oš)
• Esperanto: Sankt-Peterburgo
• Estonian: Peterburi (et), Sankt-Peterburg (rare), Piiter (historical)
• Faroese: St. Pætursborg f, Sankta Pætursborg f
• Finnish: Pietari (fi)
• French: Saint-Pétersbourg (fr) m
• Georgian: სანქტ-პეტერბურგი (sankṭ-ṗeṭerburgi)
• German: Sankt Petersburg (de) n
• Greek: Αγία Πετρούπολη (el) f (Agía Petroúpoli)
• Hebrew: סנט פטרסבורג‏‎ (sent petersburg)
• Hindi: सेंट पीटर्सबर्ग (seṇṭ pīṭarsabarg)
• Hungarian: Szentpétervár (hu)
• Icelandic: Sankti Pétursborg f, Pétursborg f
• Indonesian: St. Petersburg
• Irish: Cathair Pheadair f, Brí Shan Pheadair f
• Italian: San Pietroburgo (it) m
• Japanese: サンクトペテルブルク (Sankuto-Peteruburuku)
• Kabardian: Бытырбыху (Bətərbəx°)
• Kalmyk: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Kannada: ಸೇಂಟ್ ಪೀಟರ್ಸ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್ (sēṃṭ pīṭars‌barg)
• Kazakh: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterbwrg), Сән-Питербор (Sän-Pïterbor)
• Komi-Permyak: Петыркар (Petyrkar)
• Komi-Zyrian: Петыркар (Petyrkar)
• Korean: 상트페테르부르크 (Sangteupetereubureukeu)
• Kyrgyz: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Latin: Petropolis m
• Latvian: Sanktpēterburga f
• Lezgi: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Lithuanian: Sankt Peterburgas m

• Livonian: Pētõrburg
• Macedonian: Санкт Пе́тербург m (Sankt Péterburg)
• Malay: Saint Petersburg
• Malayalam: സെന്റ് പീറ്റേഴ്സ്ബര്‍ഗ് (senṟ pīṟṟēḻsbar‍g)
• Maltese: San Pietruburgu m
• Mongolian: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: St. Petersburg

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Санкт-Пєтєрбѹргъ m (Sankt-Peterburgŭ)

• Ossetian: Бетъырбух (Bet’yrbux)
• Persian: سن پترزبورگ‏‎ (fa) (San Peterzburg), پتل پورت‏‎ (Petel Port) (dated)
• Polish: Petersburg (pl) m, Sankt Petersburg m
• Portuguese: São Petersburgo f
• Romanian: Petersburg
• Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг (ru) m (Sankt-Peterbúrg), Петербу́рг (ru) m (Peterbúrg), Пи́тер (ru) m (Píter) (colloquial)
• Scots: Saunt Petersburg
• Scottish Gaelic: Brìgh Naoimh Pheadair f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Санкт Петербург m

  Roman: Sankt Peterburg (sh) m

• Silesian: Pejtersburg m
• Slovak: Sankt Peterburg m, Petrohrad m
• Slovene: Sankt Peterburg m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Sankt Petersburg m

• Spanish: San Petersburgo (es) m
• Swahili: Sankt Peterburg
• Swedish: Sankt Petersburg
• Tagalog: San Petersburgo
• Tajik: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Tamil: சென் பீட்டர்ஸ்பேர்க் (ceṉ pīṭṭarspērk)
• Tatar: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Telugu: సెయింట్ పీటర్స్‌బర్గ్ (seyiṃṭ pīṭars‌barg)
• Thai: เซนต์ปีเตอร์สเบิร์ก
• Tibetan: སན་པི་ཏི་པོག (san pi ti pog)
• Turkish: St. Petersburg
• Turkmen: Sankt-Peterburg
• Ukrainian: Санкт-Петербу́рг m (Sankt-Peterbúrh), Петербу́рг m (Peterbúrh)
• Urdu: سینٹ پیٹرز برگ‏‎
• Uyghur: سانكت پېتېربۇرگ‏‎ (sankt pëtërburg)
• Uzbek: Sankt-Peterburg
• Veps: Piter
• Vietnamese: Sankt-Peterburg
• Walloon: Sint Petersbork
• Yakut: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
• Yiddish: פּעטערבורג‏‎ (peterburg)

See also

• Sankt-Peterburg

Synonyms

• St. Petersburg
• Petersburg (informal)
• Piter (colloquial)
• Sankt-Peterburg (transliteration)

See also

• Leningrad (historical name of the city, still the name of the surrounding oblast)
• Petrograd