<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" id="mwZg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> becomes the capital of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" id="mwZw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russia">Russia</a> again after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" id="mwaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> held this status for most of the period since 1713.<sup about="#mwt57" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_12#cite_note-10" id="mwaQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwag">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt54" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCek"><a class="external text" href="https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619089" id="mwCeo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Moscow becomes the capital of the Soviet state"</a>. <i id="mwCes">Presidential Library</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCew">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCe0">10 January</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt54" class="Z3988" id="mwCe4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Presidential+Library&amp;rft.atitle=Moscow+becomes+the+capital+of+the+Soviet+state&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prlib.ru%2Fen%2Fhistory%2F619089&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+12"></span></span>