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The Gulf of ___MASK34___ is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea . It extends between ___MASK34___ ( to the north ) and Estonia ( to the south ) all the way to Saint Petersburg in ___MASK99___ , where the river Neva drains into it . Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn . The eastern parts of the Gulf of ___MASK34___ belong to ___MASK99___ , and some of ___MASK99___ ' s most important oil harbours are located farthest in , near Saint Petersburg ( including Primorsk ). As the seaway to Saint Petersburg , the Gulf of ___MASK34___ has been and continues to be of considerable strategic importance to ___MASK99___ . Some of the environmental problems affecting the Baltic Sea are at their most pronounced in the shallow gulf . Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in ___MASK76___ and ___MASK99___ . It has since become a widespread , highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology . It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres . Becoming a ballet dancer requires years of training . Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world , which have historically incorporated their own cultures to evolve the art . ___MASK99___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK99___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European ___MASK99___ . ___MASK99___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Grand Concert Hall Oktyabrsky is one of concert platforms in the centre of Saint Petersburg . Concert hall it is used basically for performance of variety actors , rock musicians , and also dancing and ballet collectives . As the director of a hall since 1988 Emma Lavrinovich works . Concert dance ( also known as performance dance or theatre dance in the ___MASK13___ ) is dance performed for an audience . It is frequently performed in a theatre setting , though this is not a requirement , and it is usually choreographed and performed to set music . The Neva is a river in northwestern ___MASK99___ flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast ( historical region of Ingria ) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland . Despite its modest length of , it is the fourth largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge ( after the Volga , the Danube and the Rhine ). The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance , a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in ___MASK90___ during the 14th century and lasted until the 16th century , marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe . The term Renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century , in the work of historians such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt . Although the origins of a movement that was confined largely to the literate culture of intellectual endeavor and patronage can be traced to the earlier part of the 14th century , many aspects of Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval ; the Renaissance did not come into full swing until the end of the century . The French word " renaissance " (" Rinascimento " in Italian ) means " Rebirth ", and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages . Peter the Great , Peter I or Peter Alexeyevich (  ) ruled the Tsardom of ___MASK99___ and later the Russian Empire from 7 May ( O . S . 27 April ) 1682 until his death , jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half - brother , Ivan V . Through a number of successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power . He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern , scientific , westernized , and based on The Enlightenment . Peter ' s reforms made a lasting impact on ___MASK99___ and many institutions of Russian government trace their origins to his reign . The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the ___MASK39___ , enclosed by Scandinavia , Finland , the Baltic countries , and the North European Plain . It includes the Gulf of Bothnia , the Bay of Bothnia , the Gulf of Finland , the Gulf of Riga , and the Bay of Gdask . The sea stretches from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 10 ° E to 30 ° E longitude . A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic , with limited water exchange between the two bodies , the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund , the Great Belt , and the Little Belt . Moscow ( or ) is the capital and most populous city of ___MASK99___ , with 12 . 2 million residents within the city limits and 16 . 8 million within the urban area . Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city . Saint Petersburg is ___MASK99___ ' s second - largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in 2012 , and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea . It is politically incorporated as a federal subject ( a federal city ). Situated on the Neva River , at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea , it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914 , the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg . Between 1713  1728 and 1732  1918 , Saint Petersburg was the imperial capital of ___MASK99___ . In 1918 , the central government bodies moved to Moscow .