Saint Petersburg in northwestern Russia

Saint Petersburg in northwestern Russia Today's Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features Saint Petersburg, which is spread across 42 islands of the Neva River Delta in northwestern Russia.   In the time since construction began on Saint Petersburg’s first building in 1703, the city has been hit by more than 300 floods.  According to NASA, during three catastrophic flooding events, water levels rose more than three meters and swamped thousands of buildings. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, romanized: Sankt-Peterburg) is a near the Gulf of Finland …

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