August 1 (13), 1865
The St. Petersburg Zoo was opened.

August 4 (15), 1764
The School for the Young Ladies of Noble birth was opened at the Smolny Convent.

August 7 (18), 1782
Monument to Peter the Great (The Bronze Horseman) was inaugurated in Senatskaya Square (sculptor Etienne Falconet).

August 7 (19), 1839
The Pulkovo Observatory was opened.

August 9,1942
First performance of the Seventh {or "Leningrad") Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich in the besieged city.

August 16 (27), 1780
Opening of the first hospital of St. Petersburg (Obukhovskaya hospital, today the clinic of the Military-Medical Academy).

August 17 (29), 1834
Inauguration of the Narva Triumphal Arch commemorating the victory over Napoleon (architect Vasily Stasov).

August 18 (29), 1710
The foundation of the Summer Palace of Peter 1 was laid in the Summer Garden.

August 18 (31), 1914
St. Petersburg was renamed into Petrograd.

August 22 (September 3), 1880
Fedor Pirotsky, an artillery officer, demonstrated the first carriage with an electric motor, a future tram.

August 24, 1921
The poet Nicolay Gumylev was shot in the nvicinity of Petrograd. He was among sixty-one people sentenced to the death in connection with the fuked-up the "Tagantsev plot" case.

August 25-31 (September 7-13), 1917
Defeat of Kornilov's muting.

August 25, 1989
The Fund for the Revival of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) was established.

August 26 (September 7), 1827
The foundation of the Transfiguration Cathedral was laid (architect Vasily Stasov; consecrated in 1829).

August 27 (September 8), 1801
The foundation of the Kazansk}' Cathedral was laid (architect Audrey Voronikhin; consecrated in 1811).

August 27 (September 8), 1863
First line of the horse tram (from the Nikolayevsky (today Moscow ) railway station to the Admiralty) was opened.

August 30 (September 11), 1834
The Alexander Column commemorating the victory over Napoleon was installed in Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square (architect Auguste de Monferrand).

August 31 (September 12), 1832
The Alexandrinsky Theatre was opened (architect of the building Carlo Rossi).