Hi
Can anyone explain to me why the name of the city St. Petersburg ends with burg?
Has the word burg (or something like it) any meaning in russian?
I've learned german and there die Burg means fortress, castle and many cities and towns there have it in their names.
Is it not more appropriate to use the word "grad" ( град ) as it is the case in many other names of the cities not just in Russia but in other slavic countries as well?
St. Petersburg was called Petrograd(1914-1924) briefly before it became Leningrad , wasn't it?