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St. Petersburg is ready for the meeting of Merry Christmas and New Year 2020.
Peterhof fountains end the season in October.
The naval parade in St. Petersburg.
The annual festival of school graduates "Scarlet Sails" was held in St. Petersburg.
May 9, 2019 St. Petersburg celebrated Victory Day over fascism.
Residents and guests of the northern capital watched festive fireworks.
January 27, 1944 - complete breakdown of the fascist siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The siege of the city lasted for 3 years, from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944.
The city celebrated this day with a victorious salute and military parade on Palace Square.
Russian President greeted the crews of 12 ships participating in the Main Naval Parade.
Near the Manezh building, an unusual art installation Recycle Chapel appeared.
Mexican fans brought a cardboard copy of their friend to St. Petersburg.
Celebration of school graduates will be held on June 22, 2017.
The largest exhibition in St. Petersburg is taking place. Masterpieces of painting and graphics by Selvador Dali.
The Alexandrinsky Theater is one of the oldest drama theaters in Russia.
Today St. Petersburg and its suburbs celebrate Victory Day over the Fascists.
The Cup of Confederations 2017 will be held from June 17 to July 2.
The newest cruise ship Viking Sky arrived to the passenger port of St. Petersburg.
May 13 and 14 "The Day of the Hermitage Cat" will be held in St. Petersburg.
May 1 is the day of spring and labor.
On Sunday, April 16, Orthodox residents of St. Petersburg celebrated the holy Easter.
In the morning of April 13, residents of St. Petersburg were surprised. Under the snowfall, the fountain opposite the Kazan Cathedral began to play.
The number of tourists who visited St. Petersburg in the past year amounted to 6.5 million people.
In 2016 in Pushkin town one more historical place has been restored and opened for visitors. This is the Imperial Arsenal.
In the Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg, an exhibition of Dutch tulips is held.
On March 8, St. Petersburg celebrated the women's day.
Farewell to winter - Shrovetide lasted in St. Petersburg for a week.
February 23 St. Petersburg celebrates the Day of Defender of the Fatherland.
Unique exhibition of Islamic art was opened in the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg.
From February 17 to May 21 the exhibition of eminent Australian photographer Dean West will be held at the St. Petersburg Museum of Modern Art "Erarta".
In St. Petersburg, an additional 50 new stops will be installed.
Soon the possibility of fare payment by bank cards will be organized on all public buses.
St. Petersburg is celebrating the liberation of Leningrad from the blockade on 27 January.
In St. Petersburg a new space is opened, telling about the life in the darkness.
The trees will be recycled as the flinders and sent to animal shelters.
Photographer Yuri Molodkovets is author of "The Hermitage cats" project. Four-legged models were photographed on weekends of the museum.
St. Petersburg Government approved the location for the construction of the museum.
At noon on January 7 the citizens and guests of St. Petersburg gathered on the Cathedral Square of the Peter and Paul Fortress to celebrate Christmas.
January 1, 2017 at 12.00 the traditional procession of Orthodox abstainers of St. Petersburg was held.
Museum-Reserve "Gatchina" completed another large-scale reconstruction in the year of the 250th anniversary.
St. Petersburg will celebrate the New Year with new Christmas trees and photo zones.
The exhibition of communal life of Leningrad was organized in a communal apartment, where several families lived until the mid 90s.
Museum of the Mining University in St. Petersburg was opened after one and a half years of reconstruction.
Lutheran church in St. Petersburg celebrated the opening of the restored angel on the cornice.
Jan Fabre has frightened visitors to the Hermitage with stuffed animals.
Present for the Russian president.
Festival of "green" technologies GREENDAY will be held in October 1.
Petersburg joined the European Mobility Week.
This holiday is waiting for lovers of classical music on September 17. On Saturday at noon, "Music on the Neva" will sound. Classical music will sound for more than nine hours in various city squares. Admission to all events of the music festival - free.
Show "Soviet Hollywood" will be shown in Peterhof for autumn celebration of the fountains.
Painting by Vermeer "Geographer" was brought to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
In St. Petersburg, overhaul of walls of Fontanka River was launched.
Dutchman Wiebe Vokker went to tour around the world on the vehicle and no money. August 15, he was accepted at the Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg.
Petersburg Theaters will give free performances on the "Book alleys"
Theatrical action can be seen on Saturdays in August.
Sir Cat Philemon from Vyborg Castle will have a hare press secretary.
Toy-blogger has already met with the inhabitant of the medieval castle.
Petersburger Igor Kurkov painted dull concrete road hemispheres, turning them into an object of street art.
July 12 residents of the northern capital observed an unusual natural phenomenon - a double rainbow.
When completed, the height skyscraper will be 462 meters.
July 3 Bulldogs were brought to the parade on the Avenue of floating umbrellas in St. Petersburg.
July 3 River carnival will be held.
On Monday, June 27 festival of extreme sports and youth subcultures is organized at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg.
Rehabilitation Center of pinnipeds released five seals in the Gulf of Finland.
Mikhailovsky Garden in Saint Petersburg was closed because of strong winds.
A resident of the northern capital used hail for modeling of the snowman.
Schedule of events on the Children's Day:
Petersburgers will be trained in forging, molding and painting.
In St. Petersburg a great show will be organized in honor of the City Day.
May 21, opening ceremony of the fountain season was held in Peterhof.
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Petersburgers massively ate smelt at the weekends on Vasilyevsky Island.
Photos of cherry and bird cherry blossoms are spread in the network by Petersburgers.
Swans Ruslan and Lyudmila back to the pond of the Summer Garden on May 13.
By May 9, about 400 thousand flowers will appear on the streets.
Early in the morning of May 2 on the territory of the Grand Menshikov Palace fire occurred in Lomonosov.
May 1, 2016 St. Petersburgers, among other Orthodox Christians met one of the brightest holidays - Easter.
According to her, paintings of Renoir, Korovin, Van Gogh look great on the cakes.
Orthodox world celebrates the feast of the Entry into Jerusalem.
Three babies of African lions Adam and Taci were born a month ago. Teeth of the babies grew up.
Griffins on Bank Bridge in St. Petersburg will be protected from vandals.
The competition "One person" is being continued.
In St. Petersburg, April 19 season of fountains starts.
In St. Petersburg, in the cathedral, it will stay for a month.
Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations rescued seal cub on the Neva river shallows and gave zoologists.
On Tuesday, April 12, the world will celebrate the 55th anniversary of the space flight of the first astronaut Yuri Gagarin.
St. Petersburg began to celebrate this date in advance.
Fountain "Neptune" will be opened after restoration in Peterhof.
Contest beauty and mind "Highest Point" was held in SPbGUP.
Navigation in St. Petersburg will start on April 10.
The planned opening of the bridges will be held this week.
The Ship Sculpture at the hotel "Saint Petersburg" was not returned to the same place after a hurricane.
On Sunday, March 27 fans of Lady Gaga in St. Petersburg staged a flash mob dance in honor of their idol.
Residents of St. Petersburg showed photos of cats and dogs that look like them.
The first people, sunbathing at the walls of Peter and Paul Fortress.
Ostrovsky Square in St. Petersburg was prepared for competition of snowboarders.
On Sunday, March 20 the festival brings together people that take care about the environment, animals and health.
Petersburgers have prepared a bright flash mob in honor of Yuri Gagarin's birthday, March 9.
Blossoming sakuras, azaleas and tulips in the Botanical garden of St. Petersburg.
For half a day more than 3500 tickets were sold at a discount in St. Petersburg.
"Winter Evening of Light" in the Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo in St. Petersburg.
The names of city’s buildings and streets in St. Petersburg will be translated into English under the new rules.
At night, February 23 nearly 900 cars gathered 18.5 thousand cubic meters of snow on the streets of St. Petersburg.
Travel retro trains will run from St Petersburg to Peterhof.
On the night of February 17th, 2016, the sky over the capital of North was colored with Aurora borealis.
Museum of sunken ships will be opened in St. Petersburg.
On Valentine's Day, February 14 lovers of St. Petersburg and the city's guests were able to get "certificate of registration of eternal love".
In the summer, streets of St. Petersburg will be decorated with more than 8 million flowers.
February 10, Museum-apartment of Alexander Pushkin on the Moika river, 12, can be visited free of charge.
St. Petersburg celebrates the memory of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
St. Petersburg metro station "Elizarovskaya" will be closed for major repairs on February 8.
The best photos of wild nature of Russia for 2015 will be shown in St. Petersburg.
Exhibition of works by the famous Mexican artist was opened in St. Petersburg.
Irina Romanovskaya introduced new extravagant works.
In St. Petersburg, Russia's first museum of rock artifacts was founded.
Exhibition in St. Petersburg will tell, how tropical butterflies survived the siege.
January 27, 2016 Saint Petersburg celebrated the 72nd anniversary of breaking the siege.
Salute in St. Petersburg on the day of complete liberation from the blockade.
A screen with a video of the siege of Leningrad began work at memorial Piskarevsky.
The ladies of St. Petersburg told about defenseless defenders.
Priest of the Leningrad region showed parishioners example of bathing in the font.
St. Petersburg is holding "stocktaking" of ducks.
Christmas tree on the Palace Square is dismantled.
A new theater will be opened in St. Petersburg in the spring.
The first "Ski Boom" went to the snowy slopes from the railway stations in St. Petersburg.
January 10, Sunday Santas and Snow Maidens held a bike ride in the center of St. Petersburg.
From January 9 to 11 Northern Capital expects the abnormally cold weather.
Kazan Cathedral took seven thousand worshipers at the Christmas service.
In the Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg 17 figures of the Romanov family and 33-meters figure of Christ will be installed.
685 trucks and 900 street cleaners came to clean up the city's streets from snow.
Snow and frost is coming to St.Petersburg on January 3, 2016.
Since 1928, the first Christmas service will be held at St. Isaac's Cathedral.
The main Father Frost of Russia lighted Christmas tree in St. Petersburg.
Father Frost - biker with Snow Maiden entertained residents of St. Petersburg.
Hotels of the Northern capital of Russia for the coming holidays are almost filled.
In St. Petersburg exhibition of ice sculptures.
In St. Petersburg, mushrooms and flowers grown in the winter due to the warm weather.
Because of the threat of flooding in St. Petersburg the dam was partially closed during the night.
Memorial sign to mountain climbers - the defenders of besieged Leningrad was installed in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Crosses were lifted on top of Prince Vladimir Cathedral’s domes in Saint Petersburg.
A resident of St. Petersburg opened a factory of felt boots in a village.
December 13 the cub of black macaque from St. Petersburg zoo finally got a name. The baby was named Mira.
December 12, 1993 a national referendum adopted Constitution of the Russian Federation, and in 1994 by Russian presidential decrees December 12 was declared a national holiday.
Ancient icons seized from the smuggler in 2004, joined the collection of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
In St. Petersburg, nesting dolls from around the world were shown.
St. Petersburg dam was closed until December 7 because of the threat of flooding.
The famous street barber came from Australia, to make stylish haircuts for the homeless.
Nevsky Prospect will be decorated with more than 200 garlands.
On Sunday, November 29 bell weighing 17 tons was raised to the belfry of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
In St. Petersburg on Friday, November 27, the opening of Alexander the III's tomb in the Peter and Paul Cathedral was conducted.
St. Petersburg Museum of Heraldry will be opened in the building of the Stock Exchange in 2019.
From 30th of December to 10th of January Christmas Fair will be held on the square in front of the Gatchina Palace.
The drivers went on protest against tolls on federal highways.
Circus "Pink Elephant" in Kupchino will show first-graders a great show, "One among lions", free for the excellent marks for reading in a diary.
Project Midnight Opera will celebrate its second birthday with a concert in the palace of "Olympia" in St. Petersburg on November 21, 2015.
In St. Petersburg the opening of the bridges will be stopped on November 30.