The name of the city of st. petersburg was changed following the russian revolution
to remember a tsar who had triumphantly led russia.
to celebrate the leader of the bolsheviks now in power.
to honor a fallen soldier who had fought valiantly during the civil war.
to recognize a general who led the red army in a three-year conflict

The name of the city of St. Petersburg was changed to Leningrad following the Russian Revolution to celebrate the leader of the Bolsheviks now in power, that died in 1924.

On January 26, 1924, a few days after Lenin's death, the Soviet of workers, farmers and the Red Army wrote a request to change the name of the city "at the request of the workers who are grieving." The idea came from Grigori Zinoviev, president of the Soviet. Three days later, Mikhail Kalinin, one of the members of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union signed the decree by which the city would be called Leningrad.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts