SAINT PETERSBURG
St Petersburg (1914-1924 - Petrograd, 1924-1991 - Leningrad) - located in the northwest, at the mouth of the Neva River flowing into the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea.
International Airport: Pulkovo
Climate: Petersburg is located in the vicinity of the Gulf of Finland so the climate is influenced by humid marine environment. Average temperature of summer + 20 ° C, winter -15 ° C. One more thing that cannot be ignored - it is the famous white night of Petersburg. The official white night in St Petersburg is from June 11 to July 2, while the actual nights in late May and early July are also very bright.
Time zone: GTM +3
Places to visit
Peterhof (Summer Palace)
1 of 7 most beautiful tourist destinations in Russia. Construction began in the 18th century under the reign of Emperor Pie I. The palace gathered most of the architectural masters of Europe at that time.
Hermitage Museum (Winter Palace)
is a very popular tourist attraction of Saint Petersburg, is one of the three largest art museums in the world. Currently in the Hermitage Museum there are 396 galleries with nearly 3 million artifacts. If you stop for a minute before each artifact in the Hermitage, you have 15 years to see all the artifacts in this museum.
Kazan Cathedral (Kazansky Sobor)
Impressive neoclassical exterior and richly decorated interior. The resting place of General Kutuzov, the heroes of the war of 1812.
Savior on the Spilled Blood
Traditional Russian church style was built on the site where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. The interior is ornate with more than 6000m2 of mosaic.
Column Alexander
The column is meant to commemorate Russia's victory over Napoleon in the war of 1812.
Peter and Paul Fortress
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Mikhailovsky Palace
Stroganov Palace, Marble Palace and Mikhailovsky Castle
Hotels 5*
- Grand Hotel Europe by Orient-Express - Mikhaylovskaya st., bld. 1/7
- Renaissance St. Petersburg Baltic Hotel - Pochtamtskaya st., bld. 4
- Radisson Royal Hotel - Nevskiy prospect, 49/2
Hotels 4*
- NasHOTEL - 11 th Line, 50
- Rossi Boutique Hotel - Naberezhnaya river Fontanki, 55
- Courtyard St. Petersburg Center West/Pushkin Hotel - Griboedova riverside channel, bld. 166
- Park Inn St. Petersburg - Nevskiy prospect, 89
- Radisson Sonya Hotel - Liteynuy prospect, bld. 5/19
- Courtyard St Petersburg Vasilievsky - 2 nd line of Vasilievsky Island, 61/30
- Holiday Inn St. Petersburg Moskovskye Vorota - Moskovskiy prospect, bld. 97a
Hotels 3*
- Shelfort Hotel - 3 rd Line, 26
- Hotel Vera - Suvorovskiy prospect, bld. 25/16
- Hotel Ibis St. Petersburg Centre - Ligovskiy prospect, 54
- Azimut Hotel - Lermontovskiy prospect, 43/1
- Bristol Hotel - Rasstannaya st., bld. 2