Petrograd

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Leningrad \Leningrad\ prop. n.
     A city in the European part of Soviet Russia; the former
     capital of Russia. The name was formerly {St. Petersburg} and
     {Petrograd}, and was changed back to {Saint Petersburg}
     (Sankt Peterburg in Russian) in 1992.
  


     Syn: St. Petersburg, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Petrograd
       n : a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian
           city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former
           capital of Russia [syn: {St. Petersburg}, {Leningrad}, {Peterburg},
            {Saint Petersburg}]