In what city did Dmitri Mendeleev die in 1907?

Dmitri Mendeleev died in Saint Petersburg in 1907.

Mendeleev died on 2 February 1907, at age 72, in Saint Petersburg, the city where he had studied, taught, and spent much of his professional life. The cause was influenza. He was buried at Literatorskie Mostki, a cemetery associated with Saint Petersburg’s literary and cultural figures.

Saint Petersburg was central to Mendeleev’s career. He studied at the Main Pedagogical Institute, became a professor, and worked at institutions including Saint Petersburg University and the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology. Much of his scientific and public work developed there.

The city’s name can cause historical confusion. In 1914, seven years after Mendeleev’s death, Saint Petersburg was renamed Petrograd during the First World War; in 1924 it became Leningrad, and in 1991 the name Saint Petersburg was restored. Thus, the historically accurate answer for his death in 1907 is Saint Petersburg, not a later name.