petrograd

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Petrograd
    n 1: 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}, {Petrograd}, {Saint Petersburg}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]