How did the Russian city name St. Petergrad came from?

Question

Was it that they have a Saint to honour for such?

Answer 1

St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great, but he named if after his own patron saint, Saint Peter. Peter the Great himself never became a saint.

Answer 2

The city is named not after the czar himself, but after his saint patron - APOSTLE PETER. Alexander of Neva and Xeniya the Blessed are another saint patrons of the city.
The name "Petergrad" ( not "Saint-Petersburg") or exactly "Petrograd" appeared when the WWI(1914) began. It was desided to "translate" a German sounded "Saint-Petersburg" in to Russian. The new name was Petrograd that means "The city of Peter" in Russian ( "grad" means "city" in old Russian). It stayed until the Lenins death in 1924 - it was changed again - to "Leningrad" in his honour.
The old "Saint-Petersburg" was brought back in 1991 after the fall of the communism.

Answer 3

It was called St. Petersburg and it was named for Tsar Peter the Great.

According to Wikipedia, it is located near the Baltic Sea "at the end of the Gulf of Finland." Tsar Peter wanted Russia to have a seaport and a navy, thus the reason for having this city in the first place so that Russia can be open to Western Europe (three words: trade and commerce).

Answer 4

They probably named it after Peter the Great. Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725. The man did a lot to make Russia a European power.

Answer 5

In honour of St.Peter, but was changed to Leningrad, following the revolution, than back to St. Petersburg after the demise of the Soviet system. Volgograd was renamed Stalingrad, but reverted to it's original name after Stalin's death.

Answer 6

Maybe named after Saint Peter or Czar Peter the Great (Romanov).

Answer 7

Peter the Great desired a warm water port, so he painstakingly constructed Russias finest city on a swampy bog,