<span>This is true. After the revolution the name was changed from St. Petersburg to Petrograd, which means Peter's city, and a bit later it was further changed into Leningrad. This was because the soviets wanted to completely secularize themselves and remove all figures that were related to the monarchy. In 1991 it changed its name back to St Petersburg.</span>
The great depression was started shortly after the stock market crash on october in 1929 it sent wall street into a spiraling panic and destroyed millions of investers