Anton Yelchin was born in Russia.
Born to a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad , Yelchin relocated to the United States , where he began performing in the late 1990s , appearing in several television and film roles , and received recognition in Hearts in Atlantis -LRB- 2001 -RRB-.
Saint Petersburg -LRB- -LSB- Санкт-Петербу ́рг , a = Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg , r = Sankt-Peterburg , p = ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk -RSB- -RRB- is Russia 's second-largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in 2012 , and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
In 1914 , the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd -LRB- -LSB- Петрогра́д , p =p ʲɪtrɐˈgrat -RSB- -RRB- , in 1924 to Leningrad -LRB- -LSB- Ленингра́д , p = lʲɪnʲɪnˈgrat -RSB- -RRB- , and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg.
