Leningrad, formerly Petersburg - Petrograd, played an outstanding role in the history of our Motherland. For almost two centuries, Petersburg, along with Moscow, stood at the head of the economic and cultural development of Russia, was an advanced outpost of its defense on the northwestern borders. The remarkable revolutionary traditions of the Russian people from Radishchev and the Decembrists to the first revolutionary organizations of the working class are connected with Petersburg - Petrograd. Here the great Lenin laid the foundations of a new type of party - the glorious Communist Party, the creation of which marked the beginning of the revolutionary restructuring of the entire world labor movement in the era of imperialism. Leningrad is dear to the Soviet people and all progressive humanity as the cradle of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The Aurora volleys ushered in a new era of world history.