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2.1 Population development
| Year | Number of inhabitants
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| 1800 | 220,200
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| 1830 | 435,500
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| 1850 | 487,300
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| 1881 | 928,000
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| 1900 | 1,440,000
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| 1915 | 2,348,000
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| 1920 | 763,900
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| 1925 | 1,379,000
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| 2002 | 4,700,000
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3 Education
4 Economy
The city is a major center of machine building, including power equipment, machinery, shipyards, instrument manufacture, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy (production of aluminum alloys), chemicals, printing, and one of the major ports of the Baltic Sea.
The city is a major transportation hub. It is the center of the local road and railway system, and has a seaport (in the Gulf of Finland of Baltic Sea) and river ports (in the delta of Neva). It is the terminus of the Volgo-Baltic waterway which links the Baltic with the Black Sea. The city is served by Pulkovo Airport, which carries both domestic and international flights. The city's Metro (subway/underground) system began operation in 1955 and now includes four lines.
Ford Motor Company began producing the Ford Focus automobile here in 2002.
5 Administrative division
- Main article: Administrative division of Saint Petersburg
City has numerous islands and many historically important city parts are located on them. Vasilyevsky island is the largest of them and forms the whole Vasileostrovsky Administrative District . Petrogradskaya, Krestovsky , Yelagin , and Kamenny island s form Petrogradsky Administrative District .
6 Famous people
- Anna Akhmatova, died in Leningrad in 1966
- Elsa Brandstrom, born in St. Petersburg in 1888
- Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler, worked in St. Petersburg
- Joseph Brodsky, born in Leningrad in 1940
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, lived in St. Petersburg and died there in 1881
- Aleksandr Pushkin, died following a duel in St. Petersburg in 1837
- Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad in 1952
- Ayn Rand, born in St. Petersburg in 1905
- Alexandr Rodchenko, born in St. Petersburg 1891
- Taras Shevchenko, died in St. Petersburg in 1861
7 See also
