There's a bunch of places in USA named after cities in other countries, and Russia is no exception. A city in Florida has the famous Russian name Saint Petersburg! #usa #russia #florida
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they should’ve renamed it Leningrad for a laugh
@celtic6918 күн бұрын
It's Florida, no one would get it.
@Steve-ev6vx18 күн бұрын
@@Steve-ev6vx some of the finest scholars of our time have been Floridians, Lil Pump, Bert Kreischer Kodak Black, that guy with the really long neck, I could go on…
@celtic6918 күн бұрын
@@Steve-ev6vx😂😂😂 damnit man
@_DREBBEL_18 күн бұрын
@@celtic69 goated comment. I wonder if that long necked guy is still alive, he weighed like 40kg I'm calling it now also by 2030, Lil Pump will be a failed male p*rnstar, Bert Kreischer will deny having a drinking problem after suffering his 14th DUI and Kodak Black will be dead
@maxholmgren793618 күн бұрын
Petrolgrad would have taken the cake if it refined oil.
@jamespyle77718 күн бұрын
A Detroit Florida man and a Russian Florida man walk into a bar...
@munkyenima18 күн бұрын
A Florida man and a Gopnik
@Elatenl18 күн бұрын
A match made in hell! 😂
@pricelessppp18 күн бұрын
@@Elatenl But you repeat yourself!
@rathersane18 күн бұрын
Wow, you are soo funny@@Elatenl
@pipkarulka287117 күн бұрын
@@pipkarulka2871who asked
@Elatenl17 күн бұрын
There might be another St. Petersburg but there's only one Chelyabinsk. 😌
@soulassassin0g18 күн бұрын
Ngl it would be trippy to find a Chelyabinsk in the U.S.
@professional.commentator18 күн бұрын
No one wants to name their city that, after seeing how the first one turned out.
@placeholdername000018 күн бұрын
Let's build a settlement on the moon or mars and call it "New-Chelyabinsk" Who with me?
@amicuwu17 күн бұрын
@@amicuwu It will be a hellscape. With bad air quality and radioactive debris lol.
@placeholdername000017 күн бұрын
There’s a Moscow in Iowa and a Warsaw in Ohio. Both are boring ass towns
@dannylojkovic520516 күн бұрын
There's also Moscow in Idaho
@Mog6942018 күн бұрын
There's one in Iowa too
@LeftSideDown18 күн бұрын
Yeah where that one creep m*rdered a bunch of teens
@Elatenl18 күн бұрын
Yeah where a bunch of teens where unalived by that one guy
@Elatenl18 күн бұрын
In PA too. We also have Bethlehem and Intercourse
@Juneau2218 күн бұрын
I didn't know about that one until the big story about a massacre.
@professional.commentator18 күн бұрын
Fun fact: Peter Demens also named a smaller community about 40 miles north of St. Petersburg after Odessa!
@ivanzenteno277118 күн бұрын
There's also another Odessa in Texas.
@LouisSubearth17 күн бұрын
I was going to make the same comment but then wondered which of my very well educated fellow Floridians might've beat me to it ...
@nazcaplain16 күн бұрын
At that time, Odessa was one of the most important cities in the Russian Empire, just like St. Petersburg.
@_Leprosy_14 күн бұрын
As a Floridian I am so glad it wasn't named Detroit
@aldyn410618 күн бұрын
agreed man, not even russia is as bad as detroit
@box_of_things18 күн бұрын
A native Floridian?
@rebeccaspratling286517 күн бұрын
@@rebeccaspratling2865 born and raised all my life
@aldyn410617 күн бұрын
@@box_of_things Debatable, Detroit doesn't have meth using alligators.
@chdreturns15 күн бұрын
@@aldyn4106does that make you native?
@bubbletea69514 күн бұрын
I live about 20 minutes south of St. Pete. There's also another city about an hour away with many Slavic immigrants. There are many Orthodox churches in the area with the huge dome towers, many signs are either in Russian or Ukrainian. When I lived there, it was common to hear various slavic languages being spoken while in Walmart and I used to buy homemade Perogi from the churches and no one spoke English. Just smiled and gave him cash and I left with a giant bag of snacks.
@woahhbro290618 күн бұрын
What city is that?
@Clancysway18 күн бұрын
@@Clancysway North Port
@woahhbro290618 күн бұрын
@@woahhbro2906according to Google I live an hour and 31 minutes away from there by car. North West actually. Of course Google thinks I live in Seminole and some people think I live in Largo but actually I live in between. And I'm from Boston. I grew up 12 miles southwest of Boston. I don't know if I ever heard anyone speaking Russian until I was 22 23 24 25 26 years old. Don't ask me which one of those but definitely by the time I was 26. My friends were burning Russian and it sounded interesting and then I looked at the alphabet and said no and decided to study Polish. Well after a while ... When I heard it a couple of times from a few people and it sounded similar and I looked at the alphabet and it wasn't Cyrillic. :-) I couldn't tell you which language I heard most in Boston, truthfully. But on the bus in Allston It was definitely an Asian language. I would guess Vietnamese. It was the mid '80s. It seems logical that that would be the latest round of immigrants but I couldn't tell you for sure. I recently looked at a map of immigrants. It was like which state had the most immigrants from what country and Massachusetts said China. Or Chinese. Not exactly the same thing as China. My best friend was Chinese but he was American and I don't know how many generations of his family lived in the US before him. I remember that he wanted to marry someone Chinese who did not sound Chinese. He didn't sound Chinese himself. He sounded like he was from Newton. He ended up marrying a girl from Singapore or Malaysia. They had two kids, he left the church, I never heard from him again, And I had married a guy from Worcester with a Boston accent. I do not have a Boston accent. My cousin does he's from Newton. But my friend from Newton who was Chinese American didn't have lost an accident. Just your basic I grew up watching TV in the '70s type accent. I think we all grew up watching the Brady bunch and so that's the way we talk. Before we moved to the suburbs, the people on my street were either Italian or some kind of Arabic. I remember the name Abdelnor or Abdullah. All the kids were older than me. I was four they were eight and 12 and that's how I learned all those Beatles songs. And then I moved to the suburbs where everyone was a WASP (except I guess for the people who were Catholic or Jewish but pretty much the same...) years later one girl mentioned that somebody called her the n-word. I found that strange because she was... her last name was Abdullah. I know this for sure because I was older by then. But I don't know what country her ancestors would have been from just somewhere in the Middle East and I don't know how many generations. Okay obviously I think ethnicity is interesting. But I can't trace mine back very far. The resources are too expensive and the free ones require too much extra work. And so do the things I am more interested in right now. So another generation will go on without knowing where we came from exactly. But I will always wonder.
@pamelajaye18 күн бұрын
Hey now ✌🏼 from Port Charlotte Florida Love all of the Slavic Folks here too! 0.5% of Charlotte Harbor, FL population 3,969 are Ukrainian &1% are Russian
@susiefairfield721817 күн бұрын
@@woahhbro2906Grew up in St Pete shore acres area then my family moved to Clearwater
@Kingedwardiii200314 күн бұрын
it was always so annoying when i came here looking for prices in Saint Petersburg only to realize that google thinks that i'm talking about America 🗿
@applewaffles478118 күн бұрын
eat your cereal
@LeftSideDown18 күн бұрын
St petersburg USA 300k population St petersburg RUS 5.6 million population Google: Nah the one in america is much more important
@Hy7o525dUcv9t18 күн бұрын
@@Hy7o525dUcv9t it's almost 7-8 with aglomeration. Lots of people to be true...
@mindflower8917 күн бұрын
@@Hy7o525dUcv9t And it's the original too.
@yougoslavia17 күн бұрын
There’s a lot of Russian speakers here
@NigelThornbery16 күн бұрын
I (a Swede) once went to upperstate New York where there was a small town called Stockholm. They gave me free beers and everything for simply being a swede, it was pretty nice
@maxholmgren793618 күн бұрын
Countries used to do something called "sister cities" where a group from each would switch cities once/year. I've wished the St. Petes could do that! I'm too old now, but that would have been so cool.
@loriwooten524918 күн бұрын
I used to live in st petersburg. It's the LGBT friendly area of Tampa Bay ironically.
@hbza42018 күн бұрын
I hate it here (I live in Palm Harbor)
@KingBob42O16 күн бұрын
To be fair, St Petersburg is the most LGBT area of Russia
@socialistrepublicofvietnam150016 күн бұрын
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500why is that???
@RussianOccupier19011 сағат бұрын
Lived there for a year. Locals call it "St Pete." It's the other big city in the Tampa Bay area.
@gringogreen471918 күн бұрын
Yo my city mentioned, I've lived here all my life and would be confused whenever I looked it up russia came up lol
@will.g927718 күн бұрын
Algiers, Louisiana. Melbourne, Florida. Vienna, Missouri. Antwerp, Ohio. Brussels, Wisconsin. Ghent, Kentucky. Sofia, New Mexico. Shanghai, West Virginia. Bogota, Illinois. Cairo, New York. Paris, Maine. Berlin, New Hampshire. The list goes on and also includes many places named after countries as well.
@boogkitty18 күн бұрын
From Melbourne, Australia. If I ever get the visit the U.S, I want to go to Melbourne, Florida just to compare them lol.
@sjcobra8417 күн бұрын
Ah, THAT Cario... In new York
@markusklyver627717 күн бұрын
Other Paris city also in Texas too
@speedclips_85816 күн бұрын
London, Kentucky
@4-2day5415 күн бұрын
Athens, Texas
@TacticalChick3n9 күн бұрын
Please talk about Sunny Isles! It is the modern Russian capital of Ameica. Many russian businessmen, celebrities, etc all own homes in this one town. Absolutely fascinating place, please do a video on it
@kairees280218 күн бұрын
Fun fact: there’s also a city in Florida called Odessa
@yugoslavball194518 күн бұрын
Also founded by Peter Demens.
@dynasty001916 күн бұрын
my babushka lives near there. substantial russian and ukrainian population
@gregoryfridman568018 күн бұрын
Detroit, Florida does have a certain ring to it
@jeffb-c18 күн бұрын
There’s also very many Moscows! And I have a Kaluga by me as well
@ghettoapple638018 күн бұрын
There're also several Warsaws. Different country but yeah.
@Aeduo18 күн бұрын
Can you tell us more about Kaluga?
@_Leprosy_14 күн бұрын
That explains Florida
@jumajaco18 күн бұрын
Sunny isles is actually a Russian city in Florida, really rich, great skyline, 90 percent Russian. That’s where I live.
@steezy269518 күн бұрын
Same 🤞
@hyperpopenjoyer18 күн бұрын
Yayyy i live in florida near saint Petersburg and i knew that russia also had a saint Petersburg, i just didn’t know the florida one was named after it, thanks roman
@la-tf9kf18 күн бұрын
I mean… come on where else would it get the name St. Petersburg from? Next you’re gonna tell me Paris Texas was named after that other city… from whatever that baguette country was again.
@TheGhostOf202013 күн бұрын
@@TheGhostOf2020 i didn’t really think about it and i know there’s a few cities in the world that were unintentionally named after each other lol. I’ve never even been to st. Petersburg.
@la-tf9kf11 күн бұрын
@la-tf9kf you should visit it when you can when peace is restored, it is considered by Russianz the big city that represents Russian culture better than Moscow
@slavic_viking963814 сағат бұрын
@@slavic_viking9638 i’m planning to of course not now, thank you :)
@la-tf9kfСағат бұрын
Me: *has lived in central Florida my whole life and always thought it must have been named after some other st. Petersburg* NFKRS: I have some information for you
@Minifigure1718 күн бұрын
There’s also tons of Russians living there
@qaeq604118 күн бұрын
Valid excuse for Putin to invade Florida
@jerrgarcia843115 күн бұрын
@@jerrgarcia8431nuke florida*
@heartpaid67679 күн бұрын
Any Sunny Isles ppl here? 😂
@hyperpopenjoyer18 күн бұрын
I used to think it was just a coincidence that it was named St. Petersburg.
@professional.commentator18 күн бұрын
Also in Russian the names of both cities are different. The Russian Saint Petersburg sounds kinda like “sankt peterboorg” whereas the city in Florida is “sent petersbyerg”
@kektusmon18 күн бұрын
Петербург Peter Burg. Peter's Burg. Same difference. But what is "burg"? Hamburger? And why does Peter have one?
@robertjenkins613217 күн бұрын
Yea, there is London in Canada
@BorisLubPPT18 күн бұрын
There is actually a pretty cool Russian specialty store near downtown St. Petersburg.
@theodorelopez897118 күн бұрын
St. Petersburg was the best choice….Detroit sounds like a more rough and gruff name for a city. Yes, I know Detroit is in Michigan. I’ve been to St. Petersburg, Florida many years ago. Lol. Thanks for this info Roman!
@nancywall489418 күн бұрын
"Take him to Detroit"
@placeholdername000018 күн бұрын
As a Floridian, I love visiting St. Petersburg, especially the Dalí Museum. Had a professor who works out of there as well.
@rythvicr32404 күн бұрын
Might want to try renaming Detroit to St. Petersburg.
@-Katastrophe18 күн бұрын
Detroit is more like Chelyabinsk.
@hbowman10816 күн бұрын
home of the Tampa Bay Rays as well. As a floridian , I have always known it for the sunshine skyway Bridge and the Rays. pretty cool place to visit
@bluestreaks974918 күн бұрын
There’s a whole city in Florida that Russians inhabit. Many come for naturalized births
@antonsaid146718 күн бұрын
Does that mean pootin will attack us next? 😂
@pricelessppp18 күн бұрын
Good old Sunny Isles 😂
@coldwar4518 күн бұрын
@@pricelessppphe can only bully little ones
@gringo636217 күн бұрын
I like how both of them just wanted to name it the same as their home town. How creative!!
@murphybartle59218 күн бұрын
Wow that's cool. I live in St. Petersburg, Florida and didn't even know that haha
@chrisbensonpdx18 күн бұрын
I’m always saddened to learn that people in other countries know about Florida
@thestarseeker819618 күн бұрын
still not as big as the name idea that john batman, founder of melbourne in australia had: he initially wanted to name the town batmania.
@Irobert1115HD18 күн бұрын
Your shorts are addictive, love them
@LittleWeevil18 күн бұрын
It means saint Peter's town......in German. Peter the great. was so impressed with western cities that he wanted to build a city just like them. Tsars had juice.
@dzhellek18 күн бұрын
So, in an alternate universe, it would have been Detroit Florida
@starkillerdude19144 күн бұрын
The Russian river in California is named as such because there was a fort built by the Russian empire to try and dispute Spanish claims to the Oregon territory. It protected the Russian fur trade north of it and the fort is still there.
@eligoldman920016 күн бұрын
US settlers came to that area around the time of the Crimean War and founded Sevastopol there. Of course Sevastopol is now part of Ukraine.
@hbowman10816 күн бұрын
Visited it with my family when our home city was still called Leningrad
@alexgo15218 күн бұрын
Did you know there are 20 Moscows in the US. The one in Kansas is not of Russian heritage though it is named for Luis de Moscoso a Spanish Conquistador it was supposed to be Mosco but when they sent in the application to create a post office the people in DC thought it was a typo and now it is Moscow.
@adamrou1234517 күн бұрын
Hi genius
@vincents586918 күн бұрын
Between 1914 and 1991, this was the only St. Petersburg 😬🙈
@felixnimo13 күн бұрын
Fun fact: There’s a small city in Oklahoma named Prague and they hold an annual Czech Festival there. The city flag is literally the flag of the Czech Republic and the motto is derived from Czech.
@Reskov18 күн бұрын
"Peter Demens“ was not a Russian but a German. The aristocracy in imperial Russia mainly existed out of ethnic Germans…
@Tobi-ln9xr12 күн бұрын
Thanks 4 featuring the city next to where I grew up. It´s got cool museums, markets, beaches, and is walkable. U should visit.
@theSSHITT17 күн бұрын
I’ve been to that city before!! 🥰
@PhoenixHyena18 күн бұрын
Perhaps a good thing they didnt name it Demens, which in Sweden means dementia. Would never remember that place.
@niklasmoquist611618 күн бұрын
You mean Detroit?
@slavic_viking963814 сағат бұрын
Cool! I did not know that.☺️
@Navigator216618 күн бұрын
I go to the beach there often. A beautiful place!
@marjoriefoster510712 күн бұрын
Or, maybe they could've given the city a unique name rather than give it the exact same name of another city that already exists.
@sethlangston18118 күн бұрын
St Pete is a great racing town
@OneWiseGuy18 күн бұрын
There is also a Moscow, Maine
@danielcargill801918 күн бұрын
As a person who currently lives in Miami for his entire life, I never knew that.
@BrainDamageIV3 күн бұрын
That's where I live!!! 😂😂😂 Woot woot
@costak767918 күн бұрын
Wait until he hears about Moscow PA
@Ben-is5im6 күн бұрын
Florida Man here! St. Pete as we call it has nice beaches and an great downtown art district.
@juicebirdmedia140613 күн бұрын
I took a few day trips to St. Pete when I lived in Orlando. It's really nice. They have gorgeous white sand beaches and the only official Salvador Dalí museum outside of Spain, both of which I highly recommend.
@jeremyphillips782717 күн бұрын
You're intelligent is really awesome and amazing it helps to know more about good history
@higherlight18 күн бұрын
There was a Russian Colony in California - Fort Ross!
@tomriley579018 күн бұрын
I use to live there growing up in a neighborhood called shore acres, lived on the canal and use to swim with manatees my favorite city in Florida and my second favorite in the US after Chicago such a nice relaxing and chill place with live bands everywhere, cool bars and great food from all around the world
@Kingedwardiii200314 күн бұрын
My mom grew up in St. Petersburg Florida and she said that there was a lot of old people there
@loserxylophone39867 күн бұрын
It’s also near a large Greek Orthodox city of sponge divers in Tarpon Springs. It is a center of many Orthodox Christian communities in the region. Roman, If you ever visit Tampa I’d be happy to show you around.
@grahamparks164518 күн бұрын
There is also a Moscow in Idaho. The town has just over 25,000 people.
@DianaDeLuna9 күн бұрын
I enjoyed that !! Kool trivia!
@alexandrajohnson88611 күн бұрын
I did the Spotify wrapped thing and st.petersburg Florida was the city with my music taste 😂 lmao, such a coincidence.
@CheriTheBery11 күн бұрын
That’s the area I live in. We call it St. Pete. I also used to live in Odessa a bit further north and that was named by the same guy.
@stevenmartines887217 күн бұрын
I never expected you to show where I live in a video of yours lol
@stremixx717613 күн бұрын
There's a city named ''London'' in Ontario, Canada
@onefor212 күн бұрын
Fun fact: there is a river in California called Russian river. It is originally named slavyanka by russian colonizers from fort ross in California. Now fort ross is a historic landmark and very scenic there! It also appeared on russian postage stamp in 2012.
@ph-104418 күн бұрын
There’s a lot more to it than that. Florida is a HUGE destination for Russian oligarchs to buy property for investment and there’s a substantial presence of the Bratva here.
@Tarplicious18 күн бұрын
There’s a city in Northern Idaho called Moscow and I vaguely recall it was kinda settled by Russian fur trappers and traders in the 19th century. My home state before it became a state was home to Native Americans and fur trappers, kinda like with Alaska.
@alexs574415 күн бұрын
There is a River in West Virginia called the Volga, it's definitely named for the river in Russia but I can't figure out why
@PortlandLife16 күн бұрын
Why did either of them want to give it a well-known previously-existing name? Just seems silly.
@emmettturner945218 күн бұрын
It's common in America and Canada.
@Steve-ev6vx18 күн бұрын
Remember all the towns with "new"? They're all named after cities outside of US.
@Dread_213718 күн бұрын
@@Dread_2137 Yeah, but at least “New” distinguishes them. ;) The American Detroit was relatively “new” back then so “New Detroit” in Florida wouldn’t have made much sense.
@emmettturner945218 күн бұрын
In the netherlands we have two streets named moscow and st. petersburg somewhere up in the north
@taco051616 сағат бұрын
You could tell my guy misses and regrets leaving Russia so much😂😂😂
@israelvaldivia268618 күн бұрын
America: Nice name, guess we will take it
@scorpiovenator_473613 күн бұрын
I lived in florida all my life more down south though till about 6 months ago im in pa. I didn't know about this
@derekg213218 күн бұрын
I live in Florida, Daytona Beach and I have to say another of rich oligarchs, I mean rich Americans with yachts and condos live in st. Petersburg Florida 😂 and I have personally worked with Russians in hotels that came here for work and school and I teach them how we Americans are lazy and live lavish life LOL no-one works hard here take it easy guys😊 I haven't met a bad Russian yet!
@sonnydemichele490318 күн бұрын
There’s so much more that I wish I could share with Roman about the true Russian heritage of St. Petersburg, Florida, as it applies to the dawn of the age of commercial aviation. Undoubtedly Roman would be most fascinated, almost as much as most people who have lived here for decades and whom little, (or nothing at all) about the amazing history and heritage of the Russian-American city by the bay.
@skepticon939017 күн бұрын
Well Saint Petersburg is a MUCH fancier name so I'm so glad he won the coin toss!
@MissesWitchКүн бұрын
and in downtown St Petersburg there was a Hotel Detroit (Williams) and later a Club Detroit (loads of bands played there in the 80s & 90s). just additional pointless trivia LOL!
@sim0n1714 күн бұрын
I am in Scotland there is a village called Moscow in our region of Ayrshire. Also my home city Glasgow is twinned with the Russian city Rostov on the Don.
@peterboyd714917 күн бұрын
I live not far from St Pete. It's a pretty nice city. The Tampa Bay Rays baseball team plays there, for now.
@Matt92Machine2 күн бұрын
Who the fuck would wanna live in Detroit, Florida?
@sadiecaroline662318 күн бұрын
It's a very nice city. Probably the nicest city around Tampa.
@onioncontrol16 күн бұрын
there is also paris in oblast chelyabinsk lol
@swarabakhtiar171218 күн бұрын
There's a tiny little village in Ayrshire, Scotland called Moscow.
@ewangillies5592 күн бұрын
Tom Sawyer home town also named Saint Petersburg.
@user-vj1zt4rq7v17 күн бұрын
Peter demens birth name was born Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev he was a wealthy Russian aristocrat who was forced into exile because he was a outspoken critic of the czar he wanted Russia to be a democracy at one point he was a lieutenant in the czar's infantry guard He rose through the ranks to command sentries at the czar's Winter Palace and the home of Crown Prince Alexander III.
@feena33914 күн бұрын
Portland, Oregon was named the same way. The two guys who founded it were from Portland, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts respectively and flipped a coin to decide what it should be called. Could have been Boston, Oregon if the coin landed the other side up.
@bobsnow624210 күн бұрын
I used to live in Miami here I know about Saint Petersburg where it was very nice are they have very beautiful beaches I hope one day I visited and the real Saint Petersburg of course
@mahderahman27815 күн бұрын
Ngl, i completely would've guessed them the other way around based on their photos. That's a very Mark Twain lookin' Russian and a very Rasputin lookin' American
@DrewColpurs18 күн бұрын
Damn!
@oopphh._.18 күн бұрын
That’s funny I’ve heard a similar coin toss story for the city of Portland Oregon. It’s like Americans don’t care about city names at all.
@tdcarl7X12 күн бұрын
I love St. Pete, which is how the locals call it in Florida. The only similarity to Russia though is that there, one of the world’s longest and tallest bridges stands. It fell when a barge hit it in the 1980s, the Sunshine Skyway. The Kerch, not built nearly as well, and built illegally, will fall too, but not due to accident. It will be destroyed by Ukraine. Thanks for the info. 😊
@AbigailAwesome6917 күн бұрын
Ironically there is also a huge number of Slavic immigrants from Poland, Czechia and Russia, there's also many Lithuanians and Romanians in Tampa
they should’ve renamed it Leningrad for a laugh
It's Florida, no one would get it.
@@Steve-ev6vx some of the finest scholars of our time have been Floridians, Lil Pump, Bert Kreischer Kodak Black, that guy with the really long neck, I could go on…
@@Steve-ev6vx😂😂😂 damnit man
@@celtic69 goated comment. I wonder if that long necked guy is still alive, he weighed like 40kg I'm calling it now also by 2030, Lil Pump will be a failed male p*rnstar, Bert Kreischer will deny having a drinking problem after suffering his 14th DUI and Kodak Black will be dead
Petrolgrad would have taken the cake if it refined oil.
A Detroit Florida man and a Russian Florida man walk into a bar...
A Florida man and a Gopnik
A match made in hell! 😂
@@Elatenl But you repeat yourself!
Wow, you are soo funny@@Elatenl
@@pipkarulka2871who asked
There might be another St. Petersburg but there's only one Chelyabinsk. 😌
Ngl it would be trippy to find a Chelyabinsk in the U.S.
No one wants to name their city that, after seeing how the first one turned out.
Let's build a settlement on the moon or mars and call it "New-Chelyabinsk" Who with me?
@@amicuwu It will be a hellscape. With bad air quality and radioactive debris lol.
There’s a Moscow in Iowa and a Warsaw in Ohio. Both are boring ass towns
There's also Moscow in Idaho
There's one in Iowa too
Yeah where that one creep m*rdered a bunch of teens
Yeah where a bunch of teens where unalived by that one guy
In PA too. We also have Bethlehem and Intercourse
I didn't know about that one until the big story about a massacre.
Fun fact: Peter Demens also named a smaller community about 40 miles north of St. Petersburg after Odessa!
There's also another Odessa in Texas.
I was going to make the same comment but then wondered which of my very well educated fellow Floridians might've beat me to it ...
At that time, Odessa was one of the most important cities in the Russian Empire, just like St. Petersburg.
As a Floridian I am so glad it wasn't named Detroit
agreed man, not even russia is as bad as detroit
A native Floridian?
@@rebeccaspratling2865 born and raised all my life
@@box_of_things Debatable, Detroit doesn't have meth using alligators.
@@aldyn4106does that make you native?
I live about 20 minutes south of St. Pete. There's also another city about an hour away with many Slavic immigrants. There are many Orthodox churches in the area with the huge dome towers, many signs are either in Russian or Ukrainian. When I lived there, it was common to hear various slavic languages being spoken while in Walmart and I used to buy homemade Perogi from the churches and no one spoke English. Just smiled and gave him cash and I left with a giant bag of snacks.
What city is that?
@@Clancysway North Port
@@woahhbro2906according to Google I live an hour and 31 minutes away from there by car. North West actually. Of course Google thinks I live in Seminole and some people think I live in Largo but actually I live in between. And I'm from Boston. I grew up 12 miles southwest of Boston. I don't know if I ever heard anyone speaking Russian until I was 22 23 24 25 26 years old. Don't ask me which one of those but definitely by the time I was 26. My friends were burning Russian and it sounded interesting and then I looked at the alphabet and said no and decided to study Polish. Well after a while ... When I heard it a couple of times from a few people and it sounded similar and I looked at the alphabet and it wasn't Cyrillic. :-) I couldn't tell you which language I heard most in Boston, truthfully. But on the bus in Allston It was definitely an Asian language. I would guess Vietnamese. It was the mid '80s. It seems logical that that would be the latest round of immigrants but I couldn't tell you for sure. I recently looked at a map of immigrants. It was like which state had the most immigrants from what country and Massachusetts said China. Or Chinese. Not exactly the same thing as China. My best friend was Chinese but he was American and I don't know how many generations of his family lived in the US before him. I remember that he wanted to marry someone Chinese who did not sound Chinese. He didn't sound Chinese himself. He sounded like he was from Newton. He ended up marrying a girl from Singapore or Malaysia. They had two kids, he left the church, I never heard from him again, And I had married a guy from Worcester with a Boston accent. I do not have a Boston accent. My cousin does he's from Newton. But my friend from Newton who was Chinese American didn't have lost an accident. Just your basic I grew up watching TV in the '70s type accent. I think we all grew up watching the Brady bunch and so that's the way we talk. Before we moved to the suburbs, the people on my street were either Italian or some kind of Arabic. I remember the name Abdelnor or Abdullah. All the kids were older than me. I was four they were eight and 12 and that's how I learned all those Beatles songs. And then I moved to the suburbs where everyone was a WASP (except I guess for the people who were Catholic or Jewish but pretty much the same...) years later one girl mentioned that somebody called her the n-word. I found that strange because she was... her last name was Abdullah. I know this for sure because I was older by then. But I don't know what country her ancestors would have been from just somewhere in the Middle East and I don't know how many generations. Okay obviously I think ethnicity is interesting. But I can't trace mine back very far. The resources are too expensive and the free ones require too much extra work. And so do the things I am more interested in right now. So another generation will go on without knowing where we came from exactly. But I will always wonder.
Hey now ✌🏼 from Port Charlotte Florida Love all of the Slavic Folks here too! 0.5% of Charlotte Harbor, FL population 3,969 are Ukrainian &1% are Russian
@@woahhbro2906Grew up in St Pete shore acres area then my family moved to Clearwater
it was always so annoying when i came here looking for prices in Saint Petersburg only to realize that google thinks that i'm talking about America 🗿
eat your cereal
St petersburg USA 300k population St petersburg RUS 5.6 million population Google: Nah the one in america is much more important
@@Hy7o525dUcv9t it's almost 7-8 with aglomeration. Lots of people to be true...
@@Hy7o525dUcv9t And it's the original too.
There’s a lot of Russian speakers here
I (a Swede) once went to upperstate New York where there was a small town called Stockholm. They gave me free beers and everything for simply being a swede, it was pretty nice
Countries used to do something called "sister cities" where a group from each would switch cities once/year. I've wished the St. Petes could do that! I'm too old now, but that would have been so cool.
I used to live in st petersburg. It's the LGBT friendly area of Tampa Bay ironically.
I hate it here (I live in Palm Harbor)
To be fair, St Petersburg is the most LGBT area of Russia
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500why is that???
Lived there for a year. Locals call it "St Pete." It's the other big city in the Tampa Bay area.
Yo my city mentioned, I've lived here all my life and would be confused whenever I looked it up russia came up lol
Algiers, Louisiana. Melbourne, Florida. Vienna, Missouri. Antwerp, Ohio. Brussels, Wisconsin. Ghent, Kentucky. Sofia, New Mexico. Shanghai, West Virginia. Bogota, Illinois. Cairo, New York. Paris, Maine. Berlin, New Hampshire. The list goes on and also includes many places named after countries as well.
From Melbourne, Australia. If I ever get the visit the U.S, I want to go to Melbourne, Florida just to compare them lol.
Ah, THAT Cario... In new York
Other Paris city also in Texas too
London, Kentucky
Athens, Texas
Please talk about Sunny Isles! It is the modern Russian capital of Ameica. Many russian businessmen, celebrities, etc all own homes in this one town. Absolutely fascinating place, please do a video on it
Fun fact: there’s also a city in Florida called Odessa
Also founded by Peter Demens.
my babushka lives near there. substantial russian and ukrainian population
Detroit, Florida does have a certain ring to it
There’s also very many Moscows! And I have a Kaluga by me as well
There're also several Warsaws. Different country but yeah.
Can you tell us more about Kaluga?
That explains Florida
Sunny isles is actually a Russian city in Florida, really rich, great skyline, 90 percent Russian. That’s where I live.
Same 🤞
Yayyy i live in florida near saint Petersburg and i knew that russia also had a saint Petersburg, i just didn’t know the florida one was named after it, thanks roman
I mean… come on where else would it get the name St. Petersburg from? Next you’re gonna tell me Paris Texas was named after that other city… from whatever that baguette country was again.
@@TheGhostOf2020 i didn’t really think about it and i know there’s a few cities in the world that were unintentionally named after each other lol. I’ve never even been to st. Petersburg.
@la-tf9kf you should visit it when you can when peace is restored, it is considered by Russianz the big city that represents Russian culture better than Moscow
@@slavic_viking9638 i’m planning to of course not now, thank you :)
Me: *has lived in central Florida my whole life and always thought it must have been named after some other st. Petersburg* NFKRS: I have some information for you
There’s also tons of Russians living there
Valid excuse for Putin to invade Florida
@@jerrgarcia8431nuke florida*
Any Sunny Isles ppl here? 😂
I used to think it was just a coincidence that it was named St. Petersburg.
Also in Russian the names of both cities are different. The Russian Saint Petersburg sounds kinda like “sankt peterboorg” whereas the city in Florida is “sent petersbyerg”
Петербург Peter Burg. Peter's Burg. Same difference. But what is "burg"? Hamburger? And why does Peter have one?
Yea, there is London in Canada
There is actually a pretty cool Russian specialty store near downtown St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg was the best choice….Detroit sounds like a more rough and gruff name for a city. Yes, I know Detroit is in Michigan. I’ve been to St. Petersburg, Florida many years ago. Lol. Thanks for this info Roman!
"Take him to Detroit"
As a Floridian, I love visiting St. Petersburg, especially the Dalí Museum. Had a professor who works out of there as well.
Might want to try renaming Detroit to St. Petersburg.
Detroit is more like Chelyabinsk.
home of the Tampa Bay Rays as well. As a floridian , I have always known it for the sunshine skyway Bridge and the Rays. pretty cool place to visit
There’s a whole city in Florida that Russians inhabit. Many come for naturalized births
Does that mean pootin will attack us next? 😂
Good old Sunny Isles 😂
@@pricelessppphe can only bully little ones
I like how both of them just wanted to name it the same as their home town. How creative!!
Wow that's cool. I live in St. Petersburg, Florida and didn't even know that haha
I’m always saddened to learn that people in other countries know about Florida
still not as big as the name idea that john batman, founder of melbourne in australia had: he initially wanted to name the town batmania.
Your shorts are addictive, love them
It means saint Peter's town......in German. Peter the great. was so impressed with western cities that he wanted to build a city just like them. Tsars had juice.
So, in an alternate universe, it would have been Detroit Florida
The Russian river in California is named as such because there was a fort built by the Russian empire to try and dispute Spanish claims to the Oregon territory. It protected the Russian fur trade north of it and the fort is still there.
US settlers came to that area around the time of the Crimean War and founded Sevastopol there. Of course Sevastopol is now part of Ukraine.
Visited it with my family when our home city was still called Leningrad
Did you know there are 20 Moscows in the US. The one in Kansas is not of Russian heritage though it is named for Luis de Moscoso a Spanish Conquistador it was supposed to be Mosco but when they sent in the application to create a post office the people in DC thought it was a typo and now it is Moscow.
Hi genius
Between 1914 and 1991, this was the only St. Petersburg 😬🙈
Fun fact: There’s a small city in Oklahoma named Prague and they hold an annual Czech Festival there. The city flag is literally the flag of the Czech Republic and the motto is derived from Czech.
"Peter Demens“ was not a Russian but a German. The aristocracy in imperial Russia mainly existed out of ethnic Germans…
Thanks 4 featuring the city next to where I grew up. It´s got cool museums, markets, beaches, and is walkable. U should visit.
I’ve been to that city before!! 🥰
Perhaps a good thing they didnt name it Demens, which in Sweden means dementia. Would never remember that place.
You mean Detroit?
Cool! I did not know that.☺️
I go to the beach there often. A beautiful place!
Or, maybe they could've given the city a unique name rather than give it the exact same name of another city that already exists.
St Pete is a great racing town
There is also a Moscow, Maine
As a person who currently lives in Miami for his entire life, I never knew that.
That's where I live!!! 😂😂😂 Woot woot
Wait until he hears about Moscow PA
Florida Man here! St. Pete as we call it has nice beaches and an great downtown art district.
I took a few day trips to St. Pete when I lived in Orlando. It's really nice. They have gorgeous white sand beaches and the only official Salvador Dalí museum outside of Spain, both of which I highly recommend.
You're intelligent is really awesome and amazing it helps to know more about good history
There was a Russian Colony in California - Fort Ross!
I use to live there growing up in a neighborhood called shore acres, lived on the canal and use to swim with manatees my favorite city in Florida and my second favorite in the US after Chicago such a nice relaxing and chill place with live bands everywhere, cool bars and great food from all around the world
My mom grew up in St. Petersburg Florida and she said that there was a lot of old people there
It’s also near a large Greek Orthodox city of sponge divers in Tarpon Springs. It is a center of many Orthodox Christian communities in the region. Roman, If you ever visit Tampa I’d be happy to show you around.
There is also a Moscow in Idaho. The town has just over 25,000 people.
I enjoyed that !! Kool trivia!
I did the Spotify wrapped thing and st.petersburg Florida was the city with my music taste 😂 lmao, such a coincidence.
That’s the area I live in. We call it St. Pete. I also used to live in Odessa a bit further north and that was named by the same guy.
I never expected you to show where I live in a video of yours lol
There's a city named ''London'' in Ontario, Canada
Fun fact: there is a river in California called Russian river. It is originally named slavyanka by russian colonizers from fort ross in California. Now fort ross is a historic landmark and very scenic there! It also appeared on russian postage stamp in 2012.
There’s a lot more to it than that. Florida is a HUGE destination for Russian oligarchs to buy property for investment and there’s a substantial presence of the Bratva here.
There’s a city in Northern Idaho called Moscow and I vaguely recall it was kinda settled by Russian fur trappers and traders in the 19th century. My home state before it became a state was home to Native Americans and fur trappers, kinda like with Alaska.
There is a River in West Virginia called the Volga, it's definitely named for the river in Russia but I can't figure out why
Why did either of them want to give it a well-known previously-existing name? Just seems silly.
It's common in America and Canada.
Remember all the towns with "new"? They're all named after cities outside of US.
@@Dread_2137 Yeah, but at least “New” distinguishes them. ;) The American Detroit was relatively “new” back then so “New Detroit” in Florida wouldn’t have made much sense.
In the netherlands we have two streets named moscow and st. petersburg somewhere up in the north
You could tell my guy misses and regrets leaving Russia so much😂😂😂
America: Nice name, guess we will take it
I lived in florida all my life more down south though till about 6 months ago im in pa. I didn't know about this
I live in Florida, Daytona Beach and I have to say another of rich oligarchs, I mean rich Americans with yachts and condos live in st. Petersburg Florida 😂 and I have personally worked with Russians in hotels that came here for work and school and I teach them how we Americans are lazy and live lavish life LOL no-one works hard here take it easy guys😊 I haven't met a bad Russian yet!
There’s so much more that I wish I could share with Roman about the true Russian heritage of St. Petersburg, Florida, as it applies to the dawn of the age of commercial aviation. Undoubtedly Roman would be most fascinated, almost as much as most people who have lived here for decades and whom little, (or nothing at all) about the amazing history and heritage of the Russian-American city by the bay.
Well Saint Petersburg is a MUCH fancier name so I'm so glad he won the coin toss!
and in downtown St Petersburg there was a Hotel Detroit (Williams) and later a Club Detroit (loads of bands played there in the 80s & 90s). just additional pointless trivia LOL!
I am in Scotland there is a village called Moscow in our region of Ayrshire. Also my home city Glasgow is twinned with the Russian city Rostov on the Don.
I live not far from St Pete. It's a pretty nice city. The Tampa Bay Rays baseball team plays there, for now.
Who the fuck would wanna live in Detroit, Florida?
It's a very nice city. Probably the nicest city around Tampa.
there is also paris in oblast chelyabinsk lol
There's a tiny little village in Ayrshire, Scotland called Moscow.
Tom Sawyer home town also named Saint Petersburg.
Peter demens birth name was born Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev he was a wealthy Russian aristocrat who was forced into exile because he was a outspoken critic of the czar he wanted Russia to be a democracy at one point he was a lieutenant in the czar's infantry guard He rose through the ranks to command sentries at the czar's Winter Palace and the home of Crown Prince Alexander III.
Portland, Oregon was named the same way. The two guys who founded it were from Portland, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts respectively and flipped a coin to decide what it should be called. Could have been Boston, Oregon if the coin landed the other side up.
I used to live in Miami here I know about Saint Petersburg where it was very nice are they have very beautiful beaches I hope one day I visited and the real Saint Petersburg of course
Ngl, i completely would've guessed them the other way around based on their photos. That's a very Mark Twain lookin' Russian and a very Rasputin lookin' American
Damn!
That’s funny I’ve heard a similar coin toss story for the city of Portland Oregon. It’s like Americans don’t care about city names at all.
I love St. Pete, which is how the locals call it in Florida. The only similarity to Russia though is that there, one of the world’s longest and tallest bridges stands. It fell when a barge hit it in the 1980s, the Sunshine Skyway. The Kerch, not built nearly as well, and built illegally, will fall too, but not due to accident. It will be destroyed by Ukraine. Thanks for the info. 😊
Ironically there is also a huge number of Slavic immigrants from Poland, Czechia and Russia, there's also many Lithuanians and Romanians in Tampa