C̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶F̶i̶f̶t̶y̶ ̶T̶w̶o̶ - "UNSPECIFIED" City

Saint Petersburg was indeed one city of great history, with many battles fought in its wake in line with contestant territories between Empires centuries ago. First endured by the Swedish, the Finns and the Russians, Saint Petersberg was a city of multiple national cultures claiming ownership of the coastal stronghold. In any case, its shining moment appeared during the Siege of Leningrad in the early to mid 1940s when the German Wehrmacht laid siege to the city. The Soviet Union had fought tooth and nail to keep the city from falling into enemy hands through keeping Army Group North's multiple attempts to break the defences in check.

When relief finally arrived and the siege was broken - there was practically nothing left save the heavy blankets of snow, squalor, disease and torment. Millions of people have perished in this one city, alone.

During the Portal Storm Crisis, Saint Petersburg had never seen rest as political intrigue enduring from the Russian Federation had caused multitudes of chaotic scenes. The Russian Federal Government implemented a heavy military presence here around the early start of the 2000s, until the Combine had began their solemn invasion and conquest. The cultural artery that is Saint Petersburg became yet another bloody battleground as the fortress city was overwhelmed by sheer overwhelming alien firepower.

It wouldn't be the last.

After the war, Earth was left pretty much without a standing army as anywhere - so it was decided by the new collaboration government to enlist its former soldiers to keep order in a city of anarchy. As unreliable as it sounds, this proved rather effective at keeping the local population in line. The Civil Administration here set firmly within the Vasileostrovsky District kept a fine hold on all organised resistance in check. Yet, for once in a blue moon, Saint Petersburg was prospering like never before. Food was abundant as Xenian harvests became the norm with much of the modern city left rather intact.

Yet, for some, this wasn't to be... for the term 'Leningrad' was still very much apparent. When the 'First Uprising' began, the CCCP revealed itself in full, resulting in a rapid takeover of much of the city through defections rife within conscripted ranks and resistance factions appearing from underground. Combine occupation forces were overwhelmed, before a similar siege strategy was enacted. To their surprise, calculations emitted that the CCCP could have held out indefinitely, yet poor understanding of tactics and spread thin forces did not consolidate within major strongpoints that Saint Petersburg was made to withstand.

It was a bloodbath for both sides.

As the "Red Revolution" failed, all was set to recover and it appeared that Saint Petersburg had lived through its "last battle." And so it did, for history had a score to settle. As the centuries climaxed, one train carriage arrived within the City during major reconstruction efforts within the Commodity Train Station.

Within minutes, the newly deemed "City Fifty Two" was erased. It will never see the light of its former glory, for a rapid flash sealed its fate, indefinitely.