Vladimir Putin was born in the southern district of Leningrad.
==== Personal residences ====Soon after Putin returned from his KGB service in Dresden, East Germany, he built a dacha in Solovyovka on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the Karelian Isthmus in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, near St
 His grandfather, Spiridon Putin (18791965), was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin

