The name of which city was changed to Petrograd and Leningrad?
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Moscow
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Tashkent
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Kiev
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St. Petersburg
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Correct answer
Explanation
St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd in 1914 during World War I to sound less German, then renamed Leningrad in 1924 after Vladimir Lenin's death. It reverted to St. Petersburg in 1991 after the Soviet Union collapsed. Moscow has always been Moscow, and Tashkent and Kiev never carried these names.