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🏛 Palace Square
The city's main square between the Winter Palace and the arc of the General Staff Building with the Triumphal Arch.
9 routes
🖼 State Hermitage (Winter Palace)
Rastrelli's turquoise-and-white palace on the Neva — the tsars' main residence, now one of the largest museums in the world.
6 routes
🖼 General Staff Building (Hermitage)
Rossi's semicircular building with an arch on Palace Square; its east wing holds Hermitage exhibition halls under glass roofs.
4 routes
🏛 Pevchesky Bridge
A wide bridge over the Moika by Palace Square — one of the widest in the city, opposite the Court Capella.
6 routes
🖼 Pushkin Museum-Apartment
A small memorial museum in the Volkonsky house: the poet's study with his books, the drawing room and the nursery.
7 routes
🏛 Konyushennaya Square
A square by the Court Stables Department — a long yellow Empire-style building with a church in the center.
3 routes
🖼 Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
A hall with dozens of working Soviet arcade machines — shooting galleries, racing, table hockey; you can play all of them.
4 routes
🏛 Church of the Savior on Blood
A colorful church in the Old Russian style with enamel and gilded domes on the spot where Alexander II was wounded.
15 routes
🌳 Mikhailovsky Garden
A landscape garden behind the Russian Museum with a pond, lawns and Parland's ornate fence on the Savior on Blood side.
9 routes
🖼 Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace)
Rossi's classical palace with a grand staircase — the largest collection of Russian art, from icons to the avant-garde.
6 routes
✨ DLT department store
A historic department store with a huge children's floor
5 routes
🏛 Kazan Cathedral
Voronikhin's huge cathedral of grey Pudost stone, with a semicircle of 96 columns on Nevsky Prospekt.
12 routes
🏛 Bank Bridge (the griffins)
A pedestrian bridge over the Griboyedov Canal whose chains are held in the mouths of four cast-iron griffins with golden wings.
6 routes
🏛 Passage
A 19th-century department store with a glass roof over a long arcade of shops from Nevsky Prospekt to Italyanskaya Street.
4 routes
🏛 Anichkov Bridge (Klodt's horses)
A bridge over the Fontanka on Nevsky with four bronze sculptures of a man taming a horse at its corners.
5 routes
✨ Boat trip on the rivers and canals
Boats run from May to October, about an hour
1 route
🖼 Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
A mansion on the Fontanka with restored halls displaying Easter eggs, jewellery and silver.
7 routes
🚶 Palace Embankment
A granite embankment along the Neva from the Summer Garden to the Hermitage, with views of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Spit.
6 routes
🌅 Palace Bridge
Raised during the navigation season (April–November) at about 1:10
7 routes
🌅 Trinity Bridge
A drawbridge about 580 metres long with openwork lamps and views of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
7 routes
🚶 Kutuzov Embankment
A quiet granite embankment with mansions and a view across the Neva to the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Aurora.
3 routes
🌳 Alexander Garden
A garden along the Admiralty with paths, busts of cultural figures and a big fountain in the middle.
6 routes
🏛 The Bronze Horseman
Falconet's equestrian statue of Peter I on a rock pedestal, facing the Neva.
8 routes
🏛 St Isaac's Cathedral and its colonnade
In summer the colonnade is also open at night
11 routes
🖼 Nabokov Museum
A pink granite mansion with a mosaic frieze; inside are the family's drawing room and library and a butterfly collection.
5 routes
🖼 Yusupov Palace
A palace on the Moyka with an enfilade of state rooms and a small rococo home theatre.
7 routes
🏛 Potseluev Bridge (Kiss Bridge)
A small granite bridge over the Moyka with obelisk lamps, leading to New Holland.
4 routes
🌳 New Holland Island
An 18th-century artificial island with brick timber warehouses, lawns, cafés and a pond.
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🏛 Mariinsky Theatre
A turquoise 19th-century opera and ballet house, and across the Kryukov Canal a modern second stage.
6 routes
🏛 St Nicholas Naval Cathedral
A two-storey church with golden domes and a separate four-tier bell tower by the canal.
5 routes
🌅 Semimostye (Seven Bridges)
A spot from which seven bridges are visible at once
7 routes
🏛 Lion Bridge
A narrow pedestrian bridge over the Griboyedov Canal whose chains are held by four cast-iron lions.
9 routes
🏛 Sennaya Square
A former market square with a metro station and shopping arcades — the heart of the “Dostoevsky” neighbourhoods.
9 routes
🏛 “Raskolnikov's House”
An ordinary apartment building at the corner of Grazhdanskaya and Stolyarny with commemorative plaques and a bas-relief on the corner.
5 routes
🏛 Vladimir Cathedral
A five-domed cathedral with a freestanding bell tower on Vladimirskaya Square.
6 routes
🖼 Dostoevsky Museum
The writer's last apartment: the study with a clock stopped at the hour of his death, the nursery and the drawing room.
5 routes
🖼 Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic
A museum of polar explorers in a former Edinoverie church: expedition gear, ship models and stuffed animals.
3 routes
🏛 Five Corners (Pyat Uglov)
An intersection where five streets meet; the corner is guarded by a house with a tall tented turret.
7 routes
🏛 Tolstoy House
Walk-through courtyards and arches all the way to the Fontanka
2 routes
🚶 Rubinstein Street
The city's main street for restaurants and bars
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🖼 Pushkinskaya 10 Art Centre
Galleries, the Museum of Nonconformist Art and a courtyard with installations
4 routes
✨ Etazhi loft project
Exhibitions and design shops in a former bread factory
5 routes
🏛 Ploshchad Vosstaniya station
A station from the metro's first line, opened in 1955: marble piers and bas-reliefs about the 1917 revolution.
3 routes
🖼 Fountain House — Akhmatova Museum
The Sheremetevs' Baroque palace on the Fontanka; in the wing is a museum with the poet's rooms and literary exhibitions.
5 routes
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🌳 Sheremetev Garden
A quiet garden behind the Fountain House with old trees and benches, away from the noise of Liteyny.
4 routes
🖼 Brodsky Museum “A Room and a Half”
A communal flat in the Muruzi apartment building: the family's empty rooms and an exhibition space next door.
6 routes
🏛 Transfiguration Cathedral
A yellow-and-white Empire-style guards' cathedral with five domes, rebuilt by Stasov.
6 routes
🖼 Suvorov Museum
A building in the spirit of an old fortress with towers; inside are the commander's awards, banners and personal belongings.
3 routes
🌳 Tauride Garden
A large landscape garden by the Tauride Palace with canals, hills and playgrounds.
9 routes
🌅 Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
A viewing platform on the bell tower — 277 steps
12 routes
🖼 Stieglitz Museum
The incredible glass dome of the Great Hall
4 routes
🖼 Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad
A museum in Solyanoy Gorodok: letters, diaries and belongings of siege survivors, military equipment and weapons.
4 routes
🏛 Church of St Panteleimon
A small Baroque church by the Fontanka with memorial plaques on its walls about Peter I's naval victories.
2 routes
🌳 Field of Mars
A huge field-square with lawns and lilacs, with a granite memorial to the Victims of the Revolution in the centre.
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🌳 Summer Garden
Peter I's garden with marble statues, fountains, the Summer Palace and the famous railing on the Neva side.
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🖼 Mikhailovsky Castle
Paul I's fortress castle surrounded by rivers and canals, with the high golden spire of its house church.
13 routes
🏛 Alexander Nevsky Lavra
A monastery with the Trinity Cathedral, 18th-century necropolises and the graves of Lomonosov, Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky.
3 routes
🏛 Necropolis of Masters of the Arts
Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, Mussorgsky
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🚶 Staro-Nevsky Prospekt
The stretch of Nevsky from Ploshchad Vosstaniya to the Lavra: apartment buildings, coffee shops and fewer tourists.
3 routes
🖼 St Petersburg Oceanarium
Aquariums with sharks, rays and tropical fish, a glass tunnel under the main tank, and seals.
3 routes
✨ Planetarium No. 1
The biggest dome in the world — inside an old gasholder
8 routes
🌅 Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island (the Spit)
The Rostral Columns and a view of the Neva
13 routes
🖼 Kunstkamera
A turquoise building with an openwork tower — Peter's anatomical rarities and the ethnography of the world's peoples.
7 routes
🏛 Twelve Collegia (St Petersburg State University)
A long red-and-white Petrine building across Vasilyevsky Island — the university's main building.
6 routes
🖼 Menshikov Palace
One of the city's first stone buildings — Menshikov's yellow palace with Petrine-era tiled rooms.
6 routes
🏛 Sphinxes by the Academy of Arts
A pair of granite Egyptian sphinxes on the steps down to the Neva by the Academy of Arts.
15 routes
🌳 Rumyantsev Garden
A small square on the University Embankment with the “To Rumyantsev's Victories” obelisk in the centre.
4 routes
🏛 St Andrew's Cathedral
A pink-and-white 18th-century cathedral with a Baroque bell tower on the 6th Line.
6 routes
🚶 6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
Vasilyevsky's pedestrian “line”
5 routes
🖼 Icebreaker Krasin
You can go down into the engine room
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🖼 Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
One of the most visited museums in Petersburg — a private museum of contemporary art with a permanent collection and changing exhibitions.
9 routes
✨ Sevkabel Port
A former cable factory by the gulf: embankment, festivals, sunsets
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🌅 Embankment by the Sea Passenger Terminal
The open Gulf of Finland
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🏛 Peter and Paul Fortress
The noon cannon shot — at 12:00
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🖼 Military History Museum of Artillery
In the courtyard — hundreds of cannons and rockets in the open air
3 routes
✨ Leningrad Zoo
One of the country's oldest zoos, in Alexandrovsky Park: enclosures, pavilions, a playground.
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🌳 Alexandrovsky Park
A shady park by the Peter and Paul Fortress with paths, home to the zoo, the planetarium and the Music Hall.
3 routes
🏛 Cathedral Mosque
A large grey granite mosque with two minarets opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress.
5 routes
🖼 Kshesinskaya Mansion
Museum of Political History of Russia
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🖼 Peter the Great's Cabin
Peter I's wooden hut under a protective stone casing on Petrovskaya Embankment.
3 routes
🖼 Cruiser Aurora
An early 20th-century protected cruiser by Petrogradskaya Embankment — a museum ship with an open deck.
6 routes
🏛 Lidval House
An apartment building with a ceremonial courtyard where every window and facade detail is different — a model of Northern Art Nouveau.
6 routes
🏛 House with Towers
An apartment building with two tall towers on the corner of Kamennoostrovsky — the architectural dominant of the square.
5 routes
🏛 House of the Emir of Bukhara
An apartment building of 1913–1914 with facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos, built for the Emir of Bukhara (designed by Stepan…
5 routes
🚶 Karpovka Embankment
A narrow river with granite embankments and trees, winding through the Petrogradskaya Side.
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🏛 St John's Convent (Ioannovsky Monastery)
A red-brick convent with Byzantine-style domes; the crypt holds the tomb of John of Kronstadt.
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🌳 Peter the Great Botanical Garden
The greenhouses are open all year round
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🌳 Kamenny Island
Art Nouveau dachas and the Kamennoostrovsky Palace
4 routes
🌳 Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
Boats, squirrels, bicycles
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🖼 Yelagin Palace
Rossi's white-and-yellow Empire palace with a semicircular facade on Yelagin Island.
6 routes
🌅 Yelagin Island Spit
The best sunsets over the gulf
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🌳 Primorsky Victory Park
A big park in the western part of Krestovsky Island with ponds, canals and wide avenues.
4 routes
✨ Divo Ostrov amusement park
Open from spring to autumn
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🏛 Gazprom Arena
A huge stadium with a retractable roof and eight supports at the western tip of Krestovsky Island.
4 routes
🌅 Yakhtenny Bridge
A pedestrian bridge with a view of Lakhta Center
5 routes
🌳 Park of the 300th Anniversary of St Petersburg
A young park on the Gulf of Finland shore with paths, a beach, a lighthouse column and a view of Lakhta Center.
5 routes
✨ Lakhta Center
The tallest skyscraper in Europe; the viewing deck is ticketed
4 routes
🏛 Moscow Triumphal Gate
A cast-iron Doric gate honouring the victories in the wars of the 1820s, on Moskovsky Prospekt.
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🖼 Grand Maket Russia Museum
All of Russia in miniature: an 800 m² moving model
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🖼 Russian Railway Museum
Steam locomotives and carriages in a huge hangar and in the open air.
2 routes
🌳 Moscow Victory Park
A big park with ponds, islands and avenues, laid out in 1945 in honour of Victory.
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🏛 House of Soviets
The city's main monument of Stalinist Empire style
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🖼 Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
An underground memorial hall
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🏛 Avtovo station
Glass-clad columns and chandeliers — an underground “palace”
2 routes
🏛 Kirovsky Zavod station
A station of 1955 with marble columns in the Stalinist style and bas-reliefs about industry.
2 routes
🏛 Narvskaya station
A showpiece station of the metro's first line, opened in 1955, with a tall hall and massive marble piers.
1 route
🏛 Narva Triumphal Gate
A triumphal arch commemorating the war of 1812, with a chariot of Glory and figures of warriors on the roof.
4 routes
🖼 Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
A wing of the Catherine Palace where Pushkin studied: the library, the assembly hall and the lyceum students' rooms.
2 routes
🖼 Catherine Palace (Amber Room)
Better to book tickets online in advance
3 routes
🌳 Catherine Park
A huge park by the Catherine Palace with a formal section, ponds, pavilions and bridges.
3 routes
🌳 Alexander Palace and Park
Quarenghi's classical palace with a colonnade and a landscape park with ponds and quiet paths.
2 routes
🖼 Pavlovsk Palace
A classical palace on a hill above the Slavyanka river, surrounded by one of the largest landscape parks in Europe.
2 routes
🌳 Pavlovsk Park
Squirrels eat from your hand — bring nuts
2 routes
🌳 Upper Garden
A formal garden with ponds, fountains and clipped alleys in front of the Peterhof palace.
4 routes
🖼 Grand Peterhof Palace
Rastrelli's long Baroque palace on a terrace above the Grand Cascade and the Sea Canal.
2 routes
🏛 Grand Cascade and “Samson”
The fountains run from late April to late September; in winter the cascade stands without water
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🌳 Lower Park
Trick fountains (late April to late September) — kids love them
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🖼 Monplaisir Palace
Closed for restoration, you can't go inside.
3 routes
🖼 Grand Menshikov Palace
Menshikov's palace with curved galleries on a high terrace overlooking the gulf and Kronstadt.
3 routes
🌳 Upper Park of Oranienbaum
An old 18th-century park with a network of paths and ponds, where crowds are rare.
3 routes
🖼 Chinese Palace
Rinaldi's small palace with chinoiserie interiors — the original decor survived the war undamaged.
3 routes
🏛 Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion
A white-and-blue Rococo pavilion — all that remains of a giant wooden sledding hill.
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🏛 Kronstadt Naval Cathedral
A huge Neo-Byzantine church with a dome and a marble floor decorated with naval motifs.
3 routes
🌳 Petrovsky Park and the Italian Pond
A mid-19th-century square with a monument to Peter I by the harbour; nearby is the Italian Pond from Peter's era.
3 routes
✨ Fort Island Park
A park on Kotlin Island: lighthouses, the Naval Glory Museum, playgrounds.
3 routes
🖼 Nekrasov Apartment Museum
The poet's apartment with his study and reception room, where the magazine's authors gathered and his desk still stands.
3 routes
🚶 Nekrasova Street
A central street with Art Nouveau and eclectic apartment buildings, small cafés and shops.
3 routes
🏛 Gostiny Dvor
A huge 18th-century shopping complex with yellow arcade galleries along Nevsky.
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🏛 City Duma Tower
A tiered 19th-century tower with a clock and spire — one of the vertical accents of Nevsky Prospekt.
3 routes
🚶 Dumskaya Street
The noisiest bar street — for those who want to dance
1 route
🏛 Lomonosov Bridge
Towers of the 18th-century drawbridge mechanism
3 routes
🌅 Tuchkov Bridge
A long drawbridge across the Malaya Neva between Vasilyevsky Island and the Petrogradskaya Side.
3 routes
🖼 Zoological Museum
A blue whale skeleton and a baby mammoth
3 routes
🖼 Central Naval Museum
One of the oldest military museums in the world, in restored barracks by the Kryukov Canal.
3 routes
🖼 Submarine D-2 Narodovolets
One of the first Soviet submarines, raised ashore; you can walk through its compartments.
2 routes
🏛 Senate and Synod Building
Two buildings by Rossi joined by an arch over Galernaya, with colonnades and sculptures on the façade.
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🚶 Galernaya Street
A narrow old street parallel to the English Embankment, with mansions and arches leading to courtyards.
2 routes
🚶 Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
A wide boulevard with lawns and trees from Senate Square to Truda Square, with columns topped by Victories at the start.
5 routes
🏛 Vitebsky Station
Russia's first railway station, with Art Nouveau interiors
6 routes
🌳 Pionerskaya Square (Semyonovsky Parade Ground)
A spacious square in front of the Youth Theatre with lawns, paths and a monument to Griboyedov.
2 routes
🖼 Marble Palace
Rinaldi's palace, faced with marble and granite in dozens of shades, with the Marble Hall and Russian Museum exhibitions.
7 routes
🖼 Benois Wing of the Russian Museum
20th-century art: Malevich, Petrov-Vodkin
3 routes
🖼 Stroganov Palace
A pink Baroque palace at the corner of Nevsky and the Moika with restored state rooms.
7 routes
🏛 Atlantes of the New Hermitage
Ten granite figures holding up the museum's portico, each about five metres tall.
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🌅 Winter Canal
A short canal between the Moika and the Neva with an arched passage between Hermitage buildings over the water.
5 routes
🚶 Millionnaya Street
An old street parallel to the Palace Embankment with palaces, mansions and a portico with atlantes.
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🏛 Leningrad Region Palace of Arts (Gorky House of Culture)
1920s Constructivism
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🚶 Traktornaya Street
The city's first Constructivist-style housing block for workers
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🌳 Yekateringof Park
A landscape park with ponds, little bridges and islands on the site of Catherine I's country estate.
5 routes
🖼 Peter I's Travel Palace
Closed for restoration; you can't go inside.
4 routes
🖼 Konstantinovsky Palace
Scheduled guided tours
2 routes
🌳 Konstantinovsky Palace Park
Canals all the way to the gulf
2 routes
🌳 Alexandria Park
A quiet landscape park without crowds
1 route
🏛 Gothic Chapel
A small Neo-Gothic church with pointed spires in Alexandria Park.
1 route
🖼 Cottage Palace
A small Neo-Gothic palace in Alexandria Park with lace-like façade decoration.
1 route
✨ Levashovsky Bread Factory
A Constructivist cogwheel-shaped factory, since 2023 a cultural space with exhibitions, lectures and a Siege memorial.
1 route
🏛 Smolensky Cemetery and Chapel of St Xenia of Petersburg
One of the city's oldest cemeteries, with the Church of the Smolensk Icon, shady paths and old gravestones.
2 routes
🚶 Smolenka Embankment
A quiet river on Vasilyevsky Island with green banks, benches and a view of the cemetery groves.
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✨ Ciniselli Circus
Russia's first stone circus — book tickets in advance
2 routes
🖼 Blok Apartment Museum
The poet's apartment, where he spent his last nine years: a study, a dining room and a literary exhibition.
4 routes
🏛 Arts Square
Rossi's ensemble with theatres, the Philharmonia and the Russian Museum around a garden with a monument to Pushkin.
4 routes
🏛 Mikhailovsky Theatre
A theatre in Bryullov's building with a red-and-gold auditorium, staging opera and ballet.
2 routes
🏛 Grand Hotel Europe
Historic Art Nouveau interiors
4 routes
🖼 Pulkovo Observatory
Tours with telescopes — by appointment
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🌅 Pulkovo Heights
A view of the whole city from the south
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🖼 Hermitage Storage Facility "Staraya Derevnya"
Open storage: carriages, the Emir of Bukhara's tent, furniture — by guided tour
2 routes
🏛 Buddhist Datsan Gunzechoinei
A dark granite temple in the Tibetan style, with ornaments and prayer wheels at the entrance.
3 routes
🖼 Gatchina Palace
Paul I's castle-residence with state rooms, an arsenal and an underground passage to Silver Lake.
1 route
🌳 Gatchina Palace Park
A landscape park with lakes, islands, pavilions and the Humpback Bridge around the palace.
1 route
🖼 Priory Palace
The only surviving rammed-earth palace in Russia, on the shore of Black Lake, built for the Order of Malta.
1 route
🖼 Oreshek Fortress
A 14th–18th-century fortress on an island at the source of the Neva: a former political prison and a defence site in 1941–1943.
1 route
✨ Oreshek boat pier (Shlisselburg)
Boats leave from here for Orekhovy Island; nearby are a monument to Peter I, the entrance to the Staroladozhsky Canal and a view of the…
1 route
🏛 Annunciation Cathedral of Shlisselburg
A mid-18th-century Baroque cathedral by the Staroladozhsky Canal: together with the Church of St Nicholas and the Kazan Chapel it forms the…
1 route
🖼 Repin Penaty Estate Museum
Repin's dacha with a studio, glass roofs and a park with gazebos; the artist's grave is also there.
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🏛 Komarovo Cemetery (Akhmatova's grave)
A pine cemetery where Anna Akhmatova, Dmitry Likhachev, Zhores Alferov, Sergey Kuryokhin and Daniil Granin are buried.
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🏛 Akhmatova's "Budka"
A small Litfond dacha where Akhmatova spent her last summer seasons.
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🌳 Zelenogorsk Golden Beach
A wide sandy beach on the Gulf of Finland with a promenade; across the road is Zelenogorsk Park.
1 route
🌳 Dubki Park
Peter's oak grove on a headland by the gulf: oaks planted by Peter I and the remains of his palace survive here.
1 route
🌳 Dyuny (Dunes) Beach
Sand dunes with pines on the gulf shore — one of the most picturesque spots on the coast.
1 route
🌅 Sestroretsk Razliv by the dam
A reservoir from Peter's time that once fed the arms factory; the dam offers a view of the lake.
1 route
🖼 Lenin's Hut Museum
A memorial complex on the Razliv shore where Lenin hid in summer 1917: a pavilion with an exhibition, a granite "hut" monument and a…
1 route
🏛 Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
The main memorial to the victims of the Siege: mass graves, the "Motherland" monument and an eternal flame.
4 routes
✨ Shostakovich Philharmonia Grand Hall
The former Noble Assembly: the city's main symphony hall, where the Leningrad Symphony was first performed during the Siege.
1 route
✨ State Academic Capella
Russia's oldest professional choir, in a building with a 19th-century concert hall by the Singing Bridge.
1 route
✨ Mariinsky Concert Hall
A concert hall with wooden acoustics, built into the walls of the theatre's former scenery workshops.
1 route
✨ Alexandrinsky Theatre
Russia's oldest drama theatre, in a Carlo Rossi building with Apollo's quadriga above the portico.
1 route
🚶 Zodchego Rossi Street
A street of perfect proportions: its width equals the height of the buildings (22 m), and its length is ten times that (220 m).
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🏛 National Library of Russia (historic building)
Russia's first public library (1814): statues of ancient thinkers on the façade, and inside Voltaire's Library and the Faust Cabinet.
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🌳 Catherine Garden
A garden on Nevsky with a monument to Catherine II, at whose foot stand figures of her associates.
3 routes
🏛 Anichkov Palace
One of Nevsky's oldest palaces, an imperial residence under Alexander III; now the Palace of Youth Creativity.
2 routes
🏛 Peter and Paul Cathedral
Trezzini's cathedral with a 122.5 m spire, the burial place of the Romanovs from Peter I to Nicholas II.
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🖼 Kamchatka Boiler Room
The boiler room where Viktor Tsoi worked as a stoker; now a club-museum with his guitar and concerts.
3 routes
🏛 Leningrad Rock Club House
In the courtyard of this building in 1981–1991 there was a rock club where Kino, Aquarium and Zoopark played; there is a memorial plaque on…
3 routes
🖼 Fort Konstantin and the Lighthouse Service Museum
A 19th-century fort on a spit by the dam, with a lighthouse museum (lenses, lanterns, models) and an observation deck over the gulf.
1 route
✨ Fort Island pier (boats to the forts)
Boat trips around Kronstadt's forts depart from here: Alexander I, Peter I and Kronshlot.
1 route
🌅 Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge
A drawbridge of 1911 with lighthouse-like towers; from it you can see Smolny Cathedral and the Okhta Cape with the Lakhta Center in the…
4 routes
🖼 Mendeleev Museum and Archive, St Petersburg State University
Mendeleev's memorial apartment and study in the Twelve Collegia building: his desk, archive and the first periodic tables.
1 route
🖼 Dokuchaev Central Soil Science Museum
The world's oldest soil museum: soil monoliths from every continent and the underground exhibition "Underground Kingdom".
1 route
🏛 Finlyandsky Station and Locomotive N2-293
The locomotive on which Lenin fled to Finland in 1917 and returned stands in a glass pavilion by the platforms; in front of the station is…
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🏛 Monument to the Good Soldier Švejk
Russia's first Švejk (2003): he salutes and hides a beer mug behind his back; his nose is rubbed "for luck".
1 route
🌳 Heroes-Firefighters Park (Park Geroyev-Pozharnykh)
A park on the site of flooded Kupchino quarries: ponds, little bridges, a cycle path.
2 routes
🏛 Pillbox No. 204 of the Izhora Line
A museum in a 1943 pillbox — part of the Siege-era Izhora Line: a dugout, a bunker and trenches have been recreated nearby in the young…
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🏛 Intercession Old Believer Church
An Old Believer church of 1895–1896 — a fragment of old Kupchino among the panel blocks.
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🏛 Cemetery of the Victims of 9 January
The old Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery: the mass grave of the victims of Bloody Sunday and a monument of 1931 with a high relief.
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🌳 Internationalists Park
A park around Volkovsky Pond — the former bed of the Volkovka river — with a memorial to internationalist soldiers and an amphitheatre.
1 route
🏛 Church of St George the Victorious
A church of 2003 in memory of those who fell in the line of military duty — on the edge of Internationalists Park.
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🏛 Church of St Job (Iovskaya Church)
A cemetery church of 1885–1887 at the gates of Volkovo Cemetery.
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🏛 Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
One of the city's oldest cemeteries (1756): old avenues, chapels and crypts.
2 routes
🖼 Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
A museum-necropolis: Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Blok, Mendeleev, Pavlov, and nearby the Resurrection Church of 1785.
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🏛 Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery
A quiet "German" cemetery with Masonic symbols on the gravestones.
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🏛 Volkovo Merchants' Almshouse
An 1881 building with Russian-style decoration on the bank of the Volkovka river.
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🏛 Nikolaevsky Home for the Poor
An Empire-style building of 1831–1833, quietly living out its days deep in Rasstannaya Street.
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🏛 Countess Panina's People's House
Art Nouveau of 1901–1903: the first people's house for Ligovka workers, since 1926 the Railway Workers' House of Culture.
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🏛 American Bridges
Five metal arched railway bridges over the Obvodny Canal, the oldest from the 1840s.
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🏛 Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery (Petersburg)
A Russian-style convent with a restored bell tower; the cemetery holds Nekrasov, Tyutchev and Vrubel.
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🌳 Aviators Park
A park on the site of the Korpusny Aerodrome: a pond and a MiG-19 on a 12-metre pylon (1968).
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🏛 Monument to the Porebrik and the Bordyur
A humorous monument to the eternal dispute between Petersburgers and Muscovites over what to call a kerb.
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🏛 Chesme Palace
Felten's Neo-Gothic travel palace (1770s) with a triangular plan and towers; now a telecommunications university.
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🏛 Chesme Church and Military Cemetery
Felten's "Gothic" cake-like church (1777–1780) in white-and-pink stripes and the Chesme Military Cemetery.
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🏛 Viktor Tsoi Monument
A four-metre sculpture by Matvey Makushkin (2020) in a small park a couple of minutes from the metro — Tsoi lived nearby.
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🌳 Aleksandrino Estate and Park
A Neoclassical estate of the Chernyshevs–Sheremetevs (1770s, attributed to Vallin de la Mothe) and a landscape park.
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🏛 The House Where Viktor Tsoi Lived
An ordinary nine-storey block where Tsoi lived in 1984–1987 — a pilgrimage site for Kino fans.
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🌳 Polezhaevsky Park
The remains of the Ligovo estate park: an Avenue of Glory with 900 birches, bridges over the Dudergofka, the foundation of a mill from 1755.
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🏛 Church of St Nino, Equal-to-the-Apostles
A church founded in 2010 deep in the park; nearby is a military burial ground.
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🌳 Yuzhno-Primorsky Park
A 1970s park with ponds and islets, formal avenues and Kiselyov's concrete animals in the children's playground.
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🏛 Novoznamenka Estate
A rare example of Elizabethan Baroque: Vorontsov's dacha, later Myatlev's "Novo-Znamenka".
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🌳 Sosnovaya Polyana Park
The former landscape park of the Vorontsov dacha with a cascade of ponds on the Sosnovka stream.
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🏛 Trinity-Sergius Primorskaya Hermitage
An 18th-century monastery on the gulf shore with the Church of St Sergius of Radonezh and an old necropolis.
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🏛 Trinity Church in Krasnoye Selo
A stone church in "Annenskoye Baroque" (1733–1735, architect Blank) — the oldest building in Krasnoye Selo.
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🏛 Church of Alexander Nevsky
Kosyakov's wooden regimental church (1890), where Patriarch Kirill's father served; restoration was completed in 2025.
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🏛 Ruins of Alexander I's Palace
The remains of a summer palace with a garden on the lake shore — a memory of the Guards' summer camp.
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🌅 Voronya Gora (Crow Hill)
A staircase up a 147-metre hill, an observation point over Lake Dudergof and the Victory Avenue.
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🌅 Orekhovaya Gora (Nut Hill)
The highest point in Petersburg (176 m), with an observation deck over Krasnoye Selo.
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🏛 Memorial to the Sailors of Battery "A"
A monument to the sailors of the Aurora, whose battery held the defence here in 1941; gun foundations are nearby.
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🏛 Hospital of the St George Community of Sisters
Early 20th-century Art Nouveau to a design by Lutsedarsky, now a sports base.
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✨ Udelka Flea Market
The city's best-known flea market: Soviet porcelain, badges, records, tools and vintage straight off folding cots.
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🏛 "Organ Grinder with a Dog" Sculpture
A bronze organ grinder at the entrance to Udelka — the local symbol of the flea market.
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🏛 Church of St Panteleimon the Healer in Udelnaya
The church of the former Alexander III Asylum for the Mentally Ill — a rare hospital church of old Udelnaya.
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🌳 Udelny Park
A former forest dacha of the Udelninskoye school (1832): century-old larches and oaks, a steep terrace ledge, a pond and a "squirrel…
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🏛 LenUR pillboxes in Udelny Park
Three reinforced-concrete firing points of Leningrad's rear defence line from 1941, right among the pines.
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🌅 Poklonnaya Hill
The highest point in this part of town: from the ledge above Engels Avenue you can see the city all the way to the Gulf of Finland.
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🏛 Pillbox Z-15 by Poklonnaya Hill
One of the firing points of the Leningrad fortified area, dug into a dacha slope above the lakes.
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🏛 Ozerki Gymnasium Building (1911–1914)
A gymnasium building "for children of both sexes" from 1911–1914 — a landmark of the dacha-era Ozerki.
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🌳 Upper Suzdal Lake
Ozerki's main "dacha" lake: a beach, pines and a view of the steep bank of Poklonnaya Hill.
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🏛 Finland Railway House (1898)
A Finland Railway residential building from 1898 (architect Bruno Granholm) in the Shuvalovo station ensemble — a memory of the dacha-era…
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🏛 Spaso-Pargolovsky Church (Saviour Not Made by Hands)
The Church of the Saviour Not Made by Hands on a hill in the old Shuvalovo cemetery above the Lower Lake.
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🌳 Shuvalov Park
An 18th–19th-century park of the Counts Shuvalov: hills, a cascade of ponds, neo-Gothic and dachas — one of the most atmospheric in the…
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🌅 Parnas Hill
An artificial hill made by serfs from the soil dug out of the "Cap" and "Napoleon's Shirt" ponds; the summit has a view of the lake.
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🏛 Shuvalov Small Palace
A palace of the 1850s by the architect G. Bosse — one of the few surviving manor houses of the park.
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🏛 Mesmacher Dacha
The wooden "Yellow Dacha" of Georg Mesmacher, built in 1902 to a design by his brother, the architect Maximilian Mesmacher — a rare example…
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🏛 Church of Sts Peter and Paul and the Polier Crypt
A neo-Gothic church by A. Bryullov from the 1830s–40s on a hill above the pond, with the crypt of Count Adolphe Polier beside it.
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🏛 Ruins of the Cold Baths
The romantic ruins of a manor bathing pavilion by the pond.
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🏛 Schwarz Dacha
An old dacha in Pargolovo — an example of the buildings of the former dacha settlement.
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🚶 Batenin Housing Estate
A Constructivist quarter of the 1920s–30s: ribbon-shaped apartment blocks, garden courtyards, bathhouses and a kindergarten — Leningrad's…
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🌳 Forestry Academy Park
A teaching arboretum around the classical main building of the Forestry Institute: phenological observations have been made here since…
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🌳 Forestry University Botanical Garden
A teaching botanical garden with a greenhouse and a collection of tree species in the middle of the park.
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🏛 Forestry Institute Water Tower
A brick water tower — a landmark of the old Lesnoy campus.
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🏛 Kotlov Mansion ("Chaliapin's Dacha")
The mansion of the merchant D. Kotlov from 1913–1914 (architect N. Tovstoles), restored in 2022; inside is the theatre-restaurant "•19•14•".
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🏛 Pokrov Church at the Polytechnic
The university church on the Polytechnic campus, revived after the Soviet interruption.
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🏛 Polytechnic University Main Building
A huge 1899–1902 building by the architect E. Wirrich with a white assembly hall — an early 20th-century "campus" in a pine park.
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🖼 Polytechnic History Museum
The museum of the university of Witte, Ioffe and Kapitsa: instruments, documents and the story of the "polytechnic town".
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🏛 House of Scientists in Lesnoy
A mansion in the Polytechnic park — a professors' club with concerts and lectures.
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🌳 Sosnovka Park
A huge pine forest park that was a military airfield during the war: trails, ponds and lots of squirrels.
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🏛 Sosnovka Military Airfield Memorial
A memorial to the Sosnovka military airfield that operated here during the war.
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🌳 Benois Garden
What remains of the Benois family dacha: a garden with a pond and dacha buildings that host festivals and markets.
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🌳 Malookhtinsky Park
A park on the Neva bank with contemporary sculptures from the 2011 symposium — no signs, so you have to work out each one yourself.
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🏛 Dormition Church on Malaya Okhta
A church by the old Malookhtinskoye cemetery — one of the few surviving village graveyards of Okhta.
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🏛 Utkina Dacha
A 1790s estate on the point where the Okkervil and Okhta meet: restored after decades of ruin, it will become a branch of the Museum of…
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🏛 Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery and St Nicholas Church
One of the oldest cemeteries in the city (since the 18th century), with the Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker and quiet alleys above…
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🚶 "Parisian Courtyard" in Okhta
The courtyard's blank end walls are painted in the Impressionist spirit: the Eiffel Tower, a balloon, Parisian lanes and cats.
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🌳 Neva Garden and the Okhtenka Monument
A 1970 square with the bronze "Okhtenka" — a monument to an Ingrian milkmaid — and sculptures from the 2013 symposium.
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🏛 Bezborodko Dacha and the Lion Fence
An 18th-century Quarenghi estate with a famous fence of 29 cast-iron lions holding chains; restoration was completed in 2025.
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🌅 Bezborodko Dacha Pier with Sphinxes
A granite pier with four sphinxes — a view of the Neva and Smolny.
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🌳 Polyustrovo Pond
The pond of the former Bezborodko estate, with swans — a quiet corner few people know about.
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🌳 Polyustrovo Park
The former Polyustrovo mineral-water park — people took the iron-rich water here in the 19th century.
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🏛 Zhernovka Manor
A Classicist estate of the 1790s in Okhta (attributed to Quarenghi) with a pier and a pond.
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🏛 Ilyinskaya Church in Porokhovye
An 18th-century rotunda church built for the workers of the Okhta Gunpowder Factory.
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🏛 Alexander Gates of the Gunpowder Factory
The gates of the Okhta Gunpowder Factory designed by Demertsov (1806) and an old powder cellar next to them.
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🌅 Okhta Reservoir at the "Stone Flower"
The southern edge of the Okhta Reservoir — a water body created for the gunpowder mills — by the monument to the factory.
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🏛 Rzhevka Station — Start of the Rzhevsky Corridor
The memorial route "Rzhevsky Corridor" (1985) begins at the station — a continuation of the Road of Life through the city, with steles…
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🏛 Officers' Assembly of the Rzhevka Range
The officers' assembly building of the Main Artillery Range settlement — a piece of old military Rzhevka.
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🏛 Okhta Gunpowder Factory Mill
A former factory mill by the Okhta Reservoir — 19th-century industrial architecture.
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🏛 Church of St Spyridon of Trimythous
A small church on the shore of the Okhta Reservoir.
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🌳 Rzhevsky Forest Park
A big forest right in the city: pines, small bogs and paths far from the avenues.
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🏛 Bogoslovka Estate and Pokrov Church
A wooden tent-roofed church in the spirit of northern architecture (built in 2006) and a village-style estate in the forest by the Neva.
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🖼 Peasant Life Museum in Bogoslovka
A 19th-century izba (log house) with household items; pottery-whistle painting workshops at weekends.
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🌅 Bridge over the Chyornaya River in Nevsky Forest Park
An old mid-19th-century bridge (a heritage monument) over the forest river Chyornaya.
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🏛 Destroyer Stroyny Memorial on the Neva
A marker on the bank where the destroyer Stroyny held the line in 1941–43; nearby is a view of the Neva and Ust-Izhora.
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🏛 Zotov Fishmongers' House
A stone 19th-century inn-house — the last witness of the old village of Rybatskoye.
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🏛 Obelisk to the Fishermen Volunteers and Pokrov Chapel
A stele in memory of the Rybatskoye peasants who volunteered for the Russo-Swedish War in 1789, and the chapel beside it.
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos and Rybachya Sloboda Park
The new church of the village of Rybatskoye on the Neva bank and the riverside park on the site of the settlement.
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🏛 Church of Alexander Nevsky in Ust-Izhora
A late 18th-century church at the mouth of the Izhora, where the Battle of the Neva took place in 1240; a chapel and a monument to Nevsky…
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🖼 Battle of the Neva 1240 Diorama Museum
A small museum with a diorama of the battle on the site of the events.
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🏛 Hunting Lodge of the Counts Stenbock-Fermor
What remains of the estate of the Counts Stenbock-Fermor, whose land division in 1905 started the dacha settlement of Olgino.
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🏛 Schaub (Tascheit) Dacha on Lakhtinsky Avenue
A wooden Art Nouveau dacha of 1911–1913 (architect S. O. Ovsyannikov) associated with Vasily Schaub and A. F. Tascheit. The building is…
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🏛 Vogel Dacha
A wooden dacha of the early 20th century on a quiet dacha street of old Olgino.
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🏛 Konstantinov House (Steiding Dacha)
A wooden house from 1910 in the Neo-Russian style with a carved porch and a tower with a weathervane.
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🏛 Architect Weitens' Dacha
An Art Nouveau dacha from 1908 that the architect Andrei Weitens built for himself; the neighbouring house No. 21 (around 1910) is also his.
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🏛 Church of the Apostle Peter in Lakhta
An 1894 church in memory of Peter the Great, who rescued drowning sailors off Lakhta in 1724; restored in 2019.
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🏛 Serafimovskaya Church and Cemetery
A wooden Church of St Seraphim of Sarov from 1906, never closed in Soviet times; around it is a cemetery with Siege burials.
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🏛 Matsievich Square: Monument to the First Aviators
A memorial stone at the spot where the pilot Lev Matsievich died (1910) and busts of aviation pioneers — the Komendantsky Airfield was here.
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🏛 Pushkin's Duel Site
A 1937 obelisk at the site of the duel with d'Anthès in the forest park by the Chyornaya River.
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🏛 Church of St Demetrius of Thessalonica in Kolomyagi
A wooden church of 1906 on the hill of the former village of Kolomyagi, never closed.
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🌳 Lake Dolgoye Park
A walking park around a lake among the Komendantsky Airfield blocks.
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🖼 Dashkova's Kiryanovo Estate
Princess Dashkova's 1784 dacha — a museum of the history of the Peterhof Road, where hundreds of estates once stood.
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🏛 Church of Nicholas and Alexandra at the Putilov Plant
A factory church of the early 20th century, built for the workers of the Putilov Plant.
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🏛 Kirov Plant and the Putilov Monument
The main gate of the former Putilov Plant and the monument to its founder Nikolai Putilov.
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🖼 Anna Akhmatova. Silver Age Museum
Russia's first Akhmatova museum, grown out of a school club: halls such as the "Stray Dog", "Komarovo" and more.
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🏛 Krasnenkoye Cemetery
An old cemetery by the Krasnenkaya stream: the grave of the 1824 flood victims, Putilov workers and 1941 pillboxes of the Izhora line.
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🏛 Victor Tank at Kirovsky Val
A KV-85 heavy tank on a pedestal on the 1941–44 defence line, where the front lay 4 km from the Kirov Plant.
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🖼 Urban Electric Transport Museum
Old trams and trolleybuses in the Vasileostrovsky tram depot.
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🏛 Gavan Workers' Town
Experimental 1906 housing for workers by the engineers Dmitriev and Fyodorov — with a nursery, school and canteen.
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🏛 Cruiser Kirov Memorial
The real wheelhouse, gun turrets, anchors and propellers of the cruiser Kirov, which defended Leningrad.
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🌳 Linear Park on the Reclaimed Land
A new embankment on the reclaimed land of the "Marine Façade" with views of the gulf, the WHSD and Lakhta Center.
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🏛 Obelisk to the Executed Decembrists
A 1939 granite obelisk on the island where, by tradition, five executed Decembrists were secretly buried.
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🏛 Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
The city's oldest non-Orthodox cemetery (1747): gravestones of the Nobels and Fabergés, crypts and the "German's gazebo" from the film…
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🚶 Palevsky Housing Estate
A workers' "garden city" of the 1920s: low-rise houses, arches between buildings and quiet green courtyards — there are no other such…
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🌳 Babushkin Park
The old park of Shchemilovka (the former "Vienna Garden"), about 14 hectares on the former Shlisselburg Road.
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🖼 Imperial Porcelain Factory Museum
A Hermitage branch on the grounds of Russia's oldest porcelain factory (since 1744): a historical collection and a brand shop.
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🏛 "Kulich and Paskha" Church
N. Lvov's Trinity Church (1785–1790): a rotunda shaped like a kulich (Easter bread) and a bell tower like a paskha (Easter cheese dessert)…
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🏛 Novo-Kamenny Bridge
A bridge in line with Ligovsky Avenue on the site of the 1820s aqueduct that carried the Ligovsky Canal over the Obvodny; next to it is the…
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🏛 Church of the Resurrection near Warsaw Station
An Art Nouveau church (1904–1908, G. Grimm) for workers and railwaymen, nicknamed "the bottle" for its bell tower.
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🏛 Krasny Treugolnik Factory
The giant red-brick complex of the Treugolnik rubber manufactory (since 1860) — the canal's main industrial panorama.
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🏛 Vyborg House of Culture
A workers' palace of culture from 1924–1927 by Gegello and Krichevsky, the authors of the country's first Gorky House of Culture; early…
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🏛 Ludwig Nobel Mansion
The mansion and administration building of the Ludwig Nobel engineering works on the Nevka embankment.
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🚶 Nobel Workers' Town
A town for the staff of Nobel Brothers (1893–1916, Schröter, Meltzer, Lidval): Art Nouveau, apartments "with all conveniences" and little…
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🏛 Sampsonievsky Cathedral
One of the oldest churches in the city (1728–1740), built in memory of the Poltava victory; next to it is the quiet Sampsonievsky Garden.
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🏛 Izhora Plant and Dam
The heart of Kolpino: the Admiralty works founded under Peter the Great and the old dam around which the town grew.
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🏛 Church of the Ascension of the Lord
A red-brick church built as a church-school (the school was consecrated in 1898, the church itself in 1901), opposite the factory buildings.
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🖼 Izhora Plants History Museum
A factory museum since 1967: models of ship guns, bells, archive photos — told by people from the plant.
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🚶 Izhora Embankment and the Izhora Battalion Monument
The Izhora bank with a pond by the dam and a memorial to the 72nd Izhora Battalion, which held the front here during the Siege.
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🏛 Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kolpino
A cathedral on the high bank of the Izhora; the parish traces its history to a canvas church of 1722 at the plant.
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🌳 Kolpino Park by the Izhora Pond
A big park along the Izhora Pond with paths by the water — the walking place of all Kolpino.
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🏛 "Siege Well" Monument
A 1979 bas-relief on the site of the well from which residents drew water during the Siege: a woman with a child and a bucket.
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🏛 Bogoslovskoye Cemetery
The cemetery where Viktor Tsoi and Mikhail Gorshenyov are buried, with mass graves of Leningrad's defenders nearby.
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🌳 Piskarevsky Park
A forest park behind the Piskarevskoye Memorial: pines, blueberries and a pond with carp and swans.
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🏛 "Kangaroo with Wings" Sculpture
A winged mother kangaroo with her joey, placed by a lyceum in 2006.
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🏛 Monument to the Pilots of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet
A 1975 monument on the site of the Grazhdanka military airfield, from which Baltic Fleet pilots flew during the war.
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🌳 Murinsky Park
A long park along the Murinsky stream with ponds, cycle paths and sculptures; the stream splits Grazhdanka in two.
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🏛 Church of the Presentation of the Lord in Grazhdanka
A church built on the site of a wooden church that was dismantled for firewood during the Siege.
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🏛 Sensory Garden in Murinsky Park
Herbs in tall raised beds that you can touch and smell, with Braille signs.
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🏛 Defence Line by the Murinsky Stream
Ditches, trenches and concrete tank traps of Leningrad's defence line, and the monument "Edge of Leningrad's Defence".
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🏛 Levashovo Memorial Cemetery (Levashovskaya Wasteland)
A former execution ground of the 1937–1950s: a spruce forest with monuments and plaques put up by relatives, and a small museum at the…
1 route
🏛 Church of All Saints in Levashovo
A wooden octagonal church with a bell tower in a pine forest opposite the memorial cemetery.
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🏛 Fabergé Dacha
The dacha of Agathon Fabergé, called the "Little Hermitage": the main house is under scaffolding, and the grounds are private. Sold at…
2 routes
🌳 Osinovaya Roshcha Estate Park
The manor park of the Lopukhins, Levashovs and Vyazemskys on sandy esker hills, with lakes and an alley of larches.
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🏛 Earth Fortress — Osinovets Redoubt
A star-shaped earthwork built in the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790.
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🏛 Kresty
A former red-brick prison of the late 19th century with cross-shaped blocks; closed for reconstruction from autumn 2026. The closure dates…
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🏛 Sasha Kondratiev Monument
A monument to a Komsomol member of the Civil War era, after whom Kondratyevsky Avenue is named.
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🏛 Durnovo Dacha
A country estate of the turn of the 18th–19th centuries in the Classical style on the Neva bank.
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🚶 Kondratyevsky Housing Estate ("Forties Blocks")
A Constructivist housing estate of 1929–1931: 12 buildings with green courtyards, by the architects G. Simonov, L. Tverskoy and others.
2 routes
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🌳 Saltykov-Shchedrin Garden
A small green square with trees, paths and benches next to the Tauride Garden.
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🌳 Nekrasov Garden
A compact square between apartment buildings with a playground, trees and a monument to the poet.
2 routes
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🌳 Big Playground in the Central Park
A big play area in the western part of Yelagin Island, among lawns and old trees.
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✨ Mini Zoo in the Central Park on Yelagin Island
Enclosures with reindeer, Cameroon goats, a donkey, a fox, peacocks and pheasants; feed is carrots or a bag of vegetables from the park…
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🖼 Skazkin Dom Museum-Theatre
An interactive fairy-tale theatre between the zoo and the former planetarium: Baba Yaga's hut, the Three Bears' house, separate shows for…
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✨ "Giant's House" at Smile Park
A giant's apartment where the chairs are taller than dad and you can hide in the wardrobe entirely; Smile Park has about ten more illusion…
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✨ Gagarin Park Amusement Park
An open-air amusement park in Moscow Victory Park: the children's area has carousels, a little train and small slides.
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🌳 Playground near Chernyshevsky Square (Moscow Victory Park)
A playground in Victory Park with swings, slides and exercise equipment under the trees.
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✨ Vysotny Gorod (Grand Canyon) Indoor Ropes Park
An indoor ropes park: nine courses at heights of 1 to 7 metres, a climbing wall with auto-belay and a "Free Fall". Open daily 10:00–22:00…
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🖼 ITMO Optics Museum
An interactive museum in the building of the former Optical Institute: holograms, a mirror maze, optical toys, a glass hall.
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🖼 Popov Central Museum of Communications
The Bezborodko mansion: post sleighs, a semaphore telegraph, the first telephones and radios. Tue–Sun 10:30–18:00, ticket office until…
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✨ Bolshoi Puppet Theatre
One of the country's oldest puppet theatres: daytime shows for children and evening ones for teens.
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🏛 Chizhik-Pyzhik
A tiny bronze bird on a ledge above the Fontanka: land a coin on the pedestal for good luck.
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🏛 Cat Yelisei and Cat Vasilisa
Two bronze cats on cornices facing each other — a monument to the cats that saved the city from rats after the Siege.
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🏛 Major Kovalyov's Nose
The marble nose from Gogol's story "The Nose" on the facade of a house by the Fontanka.
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🌳 Kronverkskaya Embankment
A quiet embankment between the Peter and Paul Fortress and Alexandrovsky Park: smooth asphalt, water and ducks in the channel.
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🌳 Academic Garden (Academy of Arts Garden)
An intimate 18th-century garden behind the Academy of Arts: flat paths, benches, students with easels and almost no traffic noise.
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✨ Galereya Shopping Centre
A big shopping centre by Moscow Station: mother-and-baby rooms with a changing table and microwave, an interactive space with entertainers…
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🖼 Toy Museum
A small private museum with toys from different eras — from rag dolls to Soviet toy cars; little ones enjoy looking, adults enjoy…
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✨ Mouse House Children's Resto-Park
An indoor children's park with a restaurant: slides, trampolines, a soft floor and a separate play pen for kids under 3 with a ball pit and…
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✨ Butterfly Park at Piterland
A warm tropical hall with live butterflies and chrysalises on the third floor of Piterland; open daily 10:00–21:00.
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✨ Joki Joya at Piterland
An indoor family park of the Joki Joya chain with mazes, slides and ball pits, with a family restaurant with a children's menu inside…
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✨ Exo Zoo at Rio Mall
An indoor zoo on the mall's ground floor: more than 400 animals — meerkats, capybaras, parrots, hedgehogs — plus a petting area; open daily…
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✨ Umpa-Lumpa kids' complex
An indoor play centre on the third floor of the Kontinent mall: a two-storey maze, trampolines and soft play areas; open daily 10:00–22:00…
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🌳 Playground in Internationalists Park
A playground by Volkovsky Pond, a couple of steps from the Bukharestskaya Street entrance.
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🌳 Playground in Malookhtinsky Park
A playground in the eastern part of the park on the Neva embankment — riverside walking paths are right next to it.
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✨ Parrot Planet zoo at Okhta Mall
An indoor petting zoo with more than 200 exotic parrots: you can feed the birds from your hand.
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🌳 Udelny Pond
A pond in a hollow of Udelny Park, surrounded by century-old larches and benches.
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🌳 Playground in Udelny Park
A playground in the southern part of the park, among pines and larches.
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🌳 Playground in Yuzhno-Primorsky Park
A playground in the eastern part of the park, not far from the main entrance on Peterhof Highway.
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✨ Joki Joya at Pearl Plaza
An indoor family park of the Joki Joya chain: trampoline arenas, slides, mazes and ball pits, with a café inside; open until 22:00, adults…
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🏛 Market Square and the Round Tower
A square on the seafront with the early-20th-century stone Covered Market building.
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🖼 Vyborg Castle and St Olaf's Tower
A 13th-century Swedish fortress on a rocky island in the middle of the strait, with a tall tower rising above the walls.
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🏛 Clock Tower and the Old Cathedral
A tall clock tower among the cobbled lanes of the old town — the former bell tower of the cathedral and one of Vyborg's landmark verticals.
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🏛 Annenskiye Fortifications
The green ramparts and moats of a former fortress, free to stroll across — a quiet corner of old Vyborg.
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🌳 Monrepos Park
A rocky landscape park of the 18th–19th centuries on the shore of the bay, with a Neoclassical manor house.
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🏛 Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin
The town's main Orthodox church — a stone cathedral from the 1840s on the central square.
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🏛 Lutheran Church of Priozersk
A kirche of rough grey stone in the Finnish National Romantic style, designed by Armas Lindgren.
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🖼 Korela Fortress Museum
A small island fortress with ramparts and stone walls, and a museum of the history of the Karelians and Swedish Kexholm.
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🏛 Priozersk Railway Station
A small station building of Finnish construction that has kept its early-20th-century look.
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🖼 Road of Life Museum
A museum by Lake Ladoga in the area where the Siege-era Road of Life began, with military vehicles and exhibition halls.
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🌅 Osinovets Lighthouse and the Ladoga Shore
The red-and-white striped lighthouse tower above a sandy cape, with a wide view of Lake Ladoga.
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🏛 Broken Ring Memorial
A memorial right on the shore of Ladoga — a quiet place with a view of the open lake.
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🏛 Ladozhsky Railway Station
A modern 2003 station with a bright hall — the city's only through station.
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🏛 St Nicholas Monastery
A monastery ensemble with a 17th-century St Nicholas Cathedral behind white walls right by the river.
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🖼 Staraya Ladoga Fortress
A stone fortress with towers on the headland where the Ladozhka river flows into the Volkhov.
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🚶 Varyazhskaya Street and the Rurik and Oleg Monument
A village street along the Volkhov with wooden houses and front gardens — the main street of Staraya Ladoga.
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🏛 Holy Dormition Convent
A convent on the bank of the Volkhov with an ancient white-stone church and quiet, well-kept grounds.
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🏛 Burial Mounds: Oleg's Grave
Tall grassy burial mounds on the steep bank of the Volkhov with a wide view of the river.
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🌳 Lake Kavgolovskoye
A large forest lake near Toksovo with a beach on the eastern shore, pines, and ski jumps on the neighbouring hills.
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🌅 Toksovo Heights
Hilly terrain with pine forests and elevation changes rare for the flat Leningrad Oblast.
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🏛 Toksovo Lutheran Church
The stone Lutheran Church of Saints Peter and Paul from 1887, which in Soviet times was the Arktika cinema.
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🌳 Lake Hepojärvi
A large forest lake surrounded by pine-covered hills, popular with swimmers and skiers.
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🏛 Toksovo Station Water Tower
The 1917 station water tower — all that is left of the old station building, demolished in 2021.
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🏛 Moskovsky Railway Station
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🏛 Baltiysky Railway Station
A mid-19th-century station modelled on the Gare de l'Est in Paris, with a clock in the large window of its façade.
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✨ Sablino Caves (Left-Bank Cave)
19th-century galleries where quartz sand for glass was mined: underground halls, a lake and bat colonies; it's +8 °C inside all year round.
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🌅 Sablino Waterfall
A stream tumbling off a limestone ledge in a deep wooded canyon with outcrops of ancient rock.
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🌅 Tosna (Gertovsky) Waterfall
A wide limestone ledge across the river in the Tosna canyon with high, steep banks.
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🖼 Stationmaster's House Museum
Russia's first museum of a literary character — Samson Vyrin from Pushkin's tale — in a post station building on the old Belarusian highway.
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin and the Rukavishnikov Crypt
A church consecrated in 1883 on a high bank; nearby is the marble burial vault of the Rukavishnikovs, Nabokov's relatives: Ivan…
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🏛 Holy Cave and Spring in Rozhdestveno Park
A small grotto in the slope of the Gryazna valley, from which a spring of cold, clear water flows.
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🖼 Rozhdestveno Museum-Estate
The wooden manor house of the Rukavishnikovs on a hill above the Oredezh, which Nabokov inherited in 1916; the house is closed for…
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🏛 Foundation of the Nabokov House at Vyra Manor
A meadow bank of the Oredezh opposite Rozhdestveno, with the remains of a manor park and old trees.
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🌳 Batovo Estate Park and the Ryleyev Stele
The former estate of the Ryleyevs, later of the Nabokovs: an overgrown park on the high bank of the Oredezh.
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🏛 Ropsha Palace Ruins
An abandoned 18th-century palace above a park with ponds — a former country residence of the imperial family.
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🌳 Ropsha Park Ponds and the Paper Mill
A landscape park with a chain of ponds on hilly terrain, old trees and the remains of bridges.
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🖼 Koporye Fortress
A medieval stone fortress of the 13th–16th centuries on the edge of the Izhora Plateau, with a gate church and a bridge over a ravine.
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🌳 Ushkovo Stream
A forest path through the pinewoods of the Kurortny district, along a stream running to the Gulf of Finland.
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🌳 Ushkovo Beach
A wide strip of sand along the Gulf of Finland with pines behind and shallow water by the shore.
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🏛 Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
A white multi-domed church in the Russian style with a tall bell tower above the Primorskoye Highway — a symbol of Zelenogorsk.
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🏛 Church of the Transfiguration (Lutheran)
A Lutheran church that survived the Soviet years as a cinema; now it has an active parish and an organ.
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🏛 Church of St Stephanie in Druzhnoselye
A Neo-Gothic church-mausoleum of 1834 by Alexander Bryullov over the grave of Princess Stephanie Wittgenstein.
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🏛 Monument to P. Kh. Wittgenstein
A monument to the victories of Count Peter Wittgenstein, who defended Petersburg in the Patriotic War of 1812.
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🖼 Dacha Capital Museum
A local-history museum in an old dacha — about Siverskaya as a fashionable dacha resort for Petersburgers of the 19th–20th centuries: the…
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🌳 Siversky Cliff and the "School of Life" Eco-Trail
A high bank of the Oredezh with pines and a view of the winding river in the Siverskaya forests.
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🖼 Isaak Schwartz House Museum
The house where the composer Isaak Schwartz, author of the music for White Sun of the Desert, lived for 45 years: a piano, scores…
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🏛 Pawnbroker's House
An apartment building that researchers consider the prototype of Alyona Ivanovna's house in Crime and Punishment: from "Raskolnikov's…
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✨ Podpisnye Izdaniya Bookshop
Liteyny's legendary bookshop (open since 1926): a big hall of serious fiction, poetry and Petersburg editions, with the Podpisnye Bulochki…
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🏛 Tauride Palace
Potemkin's palace by Starov (1780s): the State Duma met here, and today it houses the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly; inside only on…
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🏛 Kikin Hall
One of the oldest buildings in the city (1714): the chambers of the boyar Kikin, executed in the case of Tsarevich Alexei; under Peter they…
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🏛 Smolny Institute
Quarenghi's Neoclassicism: the former institute for noble maidens, the headquarters of the 1917 revolution, now the governor's…
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🌳 Yusupov Garden
A garden by the old Yusupov Palace on Sadovaya: a big pond with an island, alleys and lamps. Free entry.
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🏛 Admiralty
The main building of the Admiralty side, with its spire and little ship — Nevsky, Gorokhovaya and Voznesensky all converge on it.
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🚶 English Embankment (Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya)
The Neva embankment from Senate Square to New Holland: mansions, palaces and a view across the river to the University.
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🌅 Annunciation Bridge (Blagoveshchensky Bridge)
The first permanent bridge across the Neva (1850), with lamps on cast-iron railings and a view of the Spit and St Isaac's.
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🏛 Rostral Columns
Two red columns with ships' prows on the Spit of Vasilievsky Island — the port's former lighthouses.
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🏛 Ioannovsky Bridge
A wooden bridge with lamps — the main entrance to the Peter and Paul Fortress from the Gorkovskaya side.
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🌅 Nevsky Gate and Komendantskaya Pier
The fortress gate to the Neva and the granite pier in front of it — from here you can see the whole facade of the Palace Embankment.
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🌅 Italian Bridge (Italyansky Most)
A pedestrian footbridge over the Griboyedov Canal with a postcard view of the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood.
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🌅 Lakhta Center observation deck
The glazed 83rd floor of the Lakhta Center tower, over 350 metres up: a view of the whole city, the Gulf and the Western High-Speed…
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✨ Demmeni Marionette Theatre
The oldest professional puppet theatre in Russia, right on Nevsky by Gostiny Dvor: daytime marionette shows for children aged 4 and up, and…
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🖼 Petersburg Doll Museum
A museum on Vasilievsky Island telling the history of the doll from ritual rag dolls to artists' dolls: Petersburg in dolls, folk…
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✨ Skazka Puppet Theatre
A children's puppet theatre by Moskovskiye Vorota metro: morning shows of fairy tales by Pushkin, Andersen and Yershov, and separate…
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🖼 Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center
A contemporary art center in a new building on the site of the Priboy cinema: changing exhibitions, a Sergey Kuryokhin museum in the form…
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🏛 Brusnitsyn Mansion
The abandoned palace of the Brusnitsyn leather manufacturers with an eclectic facade of 1884 — a reminder that Kozhevennaya Liniya…
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🏛 Kirovsky Department Store (factory-kitchen)
Leningrad's biggest factory-kitchen and the House of Cooperation of 1929–1931 — constructivism in which a department store still operates.
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🏛 School of the 10th Anniversary of October
The first school built in Soviet Leningrad — early constructivism by Alexander Nikolsky, with a plan that echoes the hammer and sickle.
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🏛 Kirovsky District Soviet and Kirov Monument
Noi Trotsky's House of Soviets with an 11-storey tower and a 120-metre ribbon of windows, with the 1938 Kirov monument in front. One of the…
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🏛 Gaza Palace of Culture
The Putilov workers' palace of culture opposite the Kirov Plant — constructivism by the authors of the Gorky Palace of Culture, which took…
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🖼 Museum of St Petersburg Art of the 20th–21st Centuries (MISP)
A museum of Leningrad art from the avant-garde of the 1920s to the underground and the present day; in September 2025 the neighbouring…
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🏛 Epiphany Church on Gutuevsky Island
A red-brick Russian-style church by the sea port, built in memory of the Tsarevich Nicholas's escape in Japan.
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🏛 Putilovskaya station
A new station on the brown line with panels about the history of the Putilov Plant and platform screen doors — opened in December 2025.
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🏛 Yugo-Zapadnaya station
The terminus of the new brown line and the first metro station in the Krasnoselsky district: a hexagonal vestibule, white marble and a…
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🏛 “Heroes of the Narva Gate” Monument
A memorial on Prospekt Stachek by Kronshtadtskaya Square — the start of a walk along the line where the front was stopped in autumn 1941.
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🏛 “Siege Tram” Memorial
A marker on the spot where in September 1941 the Peterhof Highway was blocked with tram cars against German tanks.
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🏛 Fordson-Putilovets Tractor Monument
A metal sculpture of the first mass-produced Soviet tractor, which the Putilov workers nicknamed “Fyodor Petrovich”.
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🖼 Academy of Arts Museum
A museum in the Academy of Arts building: casts of ancient statues that students learned from, paintings from the historical collection and…
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🏛 Lenfilm Studio
The country's oldest film studio: behind the fence on Kamennoostrovsky are the pavilions where “Chapaev”, “White Sun of the Desert” and…
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🏛 House of the Three Benois
A huge neoclassical apartment building of 1911–1912 with a ceremonial courtyard behind a granite colonnade — a city within a city with 12…
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🌳 Lopukhinsky Garden
A quiet landscape garden on the bank of the Malaya Nevka: ponds with little bridges, grottoes and the wooden dacha of the merchant Gromov…
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🏛 Trinity-Izmailovsky Cathedral
The regimental cathedral of the Izmailovsky Regiment by Stasov: white Empire style, five blue domes with golden stars, and 24 Corinthian…
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🌳 Izmailovsky Garden
A small garden on the Fontanka where the Youth Theatre lives: sculptures, benches and Roman Shustrov's “Petersburg Angel”.
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🖼 G. R. Derzhavin Museum-Estate
The city estate of the poet and minister Derzhavin: ceremonial rooms, the double-height hall of the “Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian…
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🏛 Egyptian Bridge
A bridge over the Fontanka with cast-iron sphinxes and Egyptian-style columns — a memory of the chain bridge that collapsed in 1905.
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🏛 Pushkin Monument on Pushkinskaya Street
The first Pushkin monument in Petersburg: Opekushin's bronze poet in a quiet garden in the middle of the street.
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🏛 Pertsov House
The biggest apartment building on Ligovka (1910–1912): Art Nouveau with chestnut leaves, satyrs and boys on the facade and courtyards deep…
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🌳 San Galli Garden
A small park by the mansion of the “cast-iron king” Franz San Galli: a lacy cast-iron fence, lamps and portico columns — all cast at his…
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🏛 Prince Vladimir Cathedral
A five-domed cathedral by Rinaldi and Starov with a three-tier bell tower — the main church of the old Petersburg Side.
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🌳 Yesenin Park
A residential-area park by Ulitsa Dybenko metro around a surviving forest: the Okkervil River runs through it, and there is a pond and a…
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🏛 Okkervil at Tovarishchesky Bridge
The very Okkervil of Tatyana Tolstaya's story: a narrow river between high banks, willows and traces of beavers.
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🌳 Okhta and Okkervil Embankments
Landscaped banks at the confluence of the Okhta and the Okkervil: walking paths, viewing platforms toward Utkina Dacha and an eco-style…
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🏛 Monument to the Krasnodon Heroes
The post-war “Oath” monument to the Young Guard in the eastern, ceremonial part of Yekateringof — with a rare surviving profile of Stalin.
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🏛 Dutch Church
The former church of the Dutch Reformed community: a classicist facade with a portico and a dome right on Nevsky, by the Moika.
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🏛 Finnish Church of St Mary
A strict classicist kirche deep in Bolshaya Konyushennaya — the cathedral of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia, with an organ and…
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🏛 Swedish Church of St Catherine
A pseudo-Romanesque kirche at the corner of Malaya Konyushennaya and Shvedsky Lane — the parish where Mannerheim was married.
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🏛 Petrikirche — Lutheran Church of Sts Peter and Paul
Alexander Bryullov's German Lutheran church with two towers deep in Nevsky; in Soviet times there was a swimming pool inside.
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🏛 Basilica of St Catherine of Alexandria
The city's oldest working Catholic church: a deep arched portal and a dome at the back of a small square on Nevsky.
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🏛 Armenian Church of St Catherine
A white-and-blue church with a dome and portico, set back between buildings 40 and 42 — opposite Gostiny Dvor.
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🏛 Church of Simeon and Anna
A Baroque church with a spire by the Simeonovsky Bridge over the Fontanka — one of the city's oldest churches.
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🏛 “Professor Preobrazhensky and Sharik” bench
A sculptural bench with the characters of “Heart of a Dog” in a courtyard on Mokhovaya: you can sit down next to the professor.
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🏛 Annenkirche — Church of St Anne
Felten's Lutheran church with a semicircular colonnade; after the fire of 2002 the walls inside were left sooty — concerts and exhibitions…
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of Christ in Peski
Pyotr Yegorov's classicist church, demolished in 1934 and rebuilt on its old foundations by 2020.
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🌳 Ovsyannikovsky Garden
A quiet garden in Peski on the site of the former Horse Square; it marks the place of Chernyshevsky's mock execution.
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🏛 Church of the Shestokovo Icon of the Mother of God
A tented-roof church in the style of 17th-century Moscow, the former town residence of a Tver monastery; services are now held in Georgian…
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🏛 Feodorovsky Cathedral
A church-monument to the 300th anniversary of the Romanovs in the spirit of 17th-century Rostov cathedrals; in Soviet times it was a dairy…
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🏛 Grand Choral Synagogue
Petersburg's main synagogue in the Moorish style, with a dome over Lermontovsky Prospekt.
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🏛 Estonian Church of St John
An Estonian Lutheran kirche on the former Ofitserskaya Street: in Soviet times it was rebuilt in a constructivist spirit.
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🚶 Pryazhka Embankment and the Blok Monument
A quiet little river on the edge of Kolomna by the house where Alexander Blok lived in his last years; since 2023 his monument has stood…
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🏛 Church of St Stanislaus
A small classicist church by David Visconti in Kolomna — the city's second Catholic church after the basilica on Nevsky.
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🏛 St Isidore's Church
An Orthodox church of the early 20th century by the Mogilevsky Bridge, built for the Estonian parish.
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🏛 Cossack Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross
The cathedral of the former Yamskaya Sloboda at the crossing of Ligovsky and the Obvodny Canal — one of the city's oldest parishes.
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🏛 Church of Metropolitan Peter
A small church of 1912 at the corner of Romenskaya and Dnepropetrovskaya — the former metochion of the Tvorozhkovo Convent.
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🏛 Old Believer Church of the Holy Trinity
The church of the Ligovka Old Believer community with recreated facades — two steps from Ligovsky Prospekt metro.
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🏛 Annunciation Church on Vasilievsky Island
A Baroque church of the mid-18th century at the quiet end of 8th Line; Lomonosov was among its parishioners.
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🏛 Church of St Catherine at Tuchkov Bridge
A church “in the Greek taste” with a bell tower by Tuchkov Bridge.
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🏛 Lutheran Church of St Michael
A German kirche of the 1870s at the corner of Sredny Prospekt and 3rd Line — a working parish of the Church of Ingria.
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🏛 Lutheran Church of St Catherine on Bolshoy Prospekt
Felten's kirche at the very start of Bolshoy Prospekt: early classicism, a Doric portico and a dome on a tall drum.
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🏛 “Philosophers' Ship” Memorial Sign
A marker by the Neva commemorating the expulsion of scholars and philosophers in 1922: the ships left for Germany from this embankment.
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🏛 Krusenstern Monument
A bronze admiral with arms crossed on his chest by the Neva, opposite the Naval Cadet Corps that he headed.
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🏛 Dormition Church — Optina Pustyn Metochion
A church of the late 19th century on the embankment; in Soviet years Leningrad's first covered ice rink was set up here.
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🏛 Sobchak Square
The square in front of the monumental Kirov Palace of Culture, with a bust of Petersburg's first mayor.
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🌳 Vasileostrovets Garden and the Roerich Monument
A large district garden between Bolshoy and Sredny prospekts with a granite monument to Nicholas Roerich.
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🌳 Kamsky Garden: Komitas and the Khachkar
A small park on the bank of the Smolenka with Armenian monuments — next to the Armenian cemetery.
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🏛 Armenian Church of the Holy Resurrection
A small 18th-century church in the Smolensky Armenian Cemetery, right by the water.
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🏛 Gabdulla Tukay Monument
A monument to the Tatar poet in a little park on the Petrograd Side, where the Tatar Sloboda stood under Peter.
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🌳 Matveevsky Garden and the Volodin Monument
A green courtyard of the Petrograd Side on the site of an old church; since 2022 a bronze Alexander Volodin has sat on a bench here.
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🏛 Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Lakhtinskaya Street
A church at a former shelter for disabled children: in Soviet times its facade was “straightened”, and in the 2000s the church was returned.
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🏛 Popov Monument
A seven-metre monument to the inventor of radio in a park on Kamennoostrovsky, two steps from Petrogradskaya.
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🏛 Obelisk to the Victims of the Stolypin Dacha Bombing
A granite obelisk of 1908 on the site of the blown-up dacha of the prime minister, by the Bolshaya Nevka.
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🏛 Transfiguration Church on Apothecary Island
A church by Konstantin Thon painted by Bryullov, a former grenadiers' regimental church; it reopened after being a LETI laboratory.
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🏛 Dovlatov Monument
A bronze Dovlatov by the house on Rubinshteina Street where he lived for thirty years — one of the most photographed monuments on the…
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🏛 Church of the Konevets Icon of the Mother of God
A small chapel-church in the row of houses on Zagorodny — the Petersburg metochion of the Ladoga Konevets Monastery.
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🌳 Dovlatov Square and Glasha the Fox Terrier
A tiny park on Zagorodny with Dovlatov's bronze fox terrier.
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🌳 Zvenigorodsky Square with the Devier Bust
An old front garden at the corner of Marata and Zvenigorodskaya with a bust of Petersburg's first chief of police.
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🏛 Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Shpalernaya
Luigi Rusca's Empire-style rotunda church at the corner of Shpalernaya: inside, 24 columns support the dome.
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🏛 Akhmatova Monument opposite Kresty Prison
A slender figure of Akhmatova on the embankment, facing the Kresty prison on the other bank of the Neva.
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🏛 Shemyakin's Sphinxes — Monument to the Victims of Political Repression
Two bronze sphinxes by the descent to the Neva: on one side women's faces, on the other skulls, turned toward Kresty.
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🏛 Saltykova Dacha
A pseudo-Gothic mansion of the 1840s by Chyornaya Rechka metro — all that is left of the Stroganovs' country estate.
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🌳 Stroganov Garden
What remains of the Stroganov dacha garden on the headland between the Chyornaya Rechka and the Bolshaya Nevka: old trees and quiet paths…
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🏛 Golovin Dacha
A wooden house of the 1820s with an Ionic portico facing the Bolshaya Nevka — the summer residence of the imperial family.
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🏛 Shishmarev Dacha
A wooden estate of the 1820s with a Corinthian portico by the datsan — Kiprensky and Bryullov were visitors here.
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🏛 Margelov Square
A small park on Primorsky Prospekt with a bust of Vasily Margelov, commander of the Airborne Forces.
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🏛 Annunciation Church in Novaya Derevnya
An Empire-style rotunda church of 1805–1809 with a colonnade-belfry on Primorsky Prospekt.
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🏛 Sikorsky Square and the “Fairy Tales of Childhood” Fountain
A triangular square named for the aircraft designer Sikorsky, with the bronze fountain “Boy and Geese”.
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🏛 “To Russia's First Pilots” Monument
A composition of two U-2 biplanes taking off — a memorial to the Komendantsky Aerodrome, the cradle of Russian aviation.
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🏛 Church of Archangel Michael on Dolgoozyornaya
A small parish church of Archangel Michael by the park with the monument to pilots; next to it is the foundation cross of a future…
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🚶 Textile Workers' Town
A housing estate of 1929–1931: five-storey blocks with setbacks and corner balconies — early Leningrad constructivism.
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🏛 House of Specialists
A building of 1934–1937 for scholars and engineers of the Vyborg Side — with a Siege-era inscription on its facade.
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🚶 Polytechnic Institute Student Town
A complex of dormitories of 1930–1933 by Lesnaya metro with a factory-kitchen, a club and a laundry.
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🏛 Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory
Russia's oldest meteorological institution — it has worked in Lesnoy, on Karbysheva Street, since 1942.
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🏛 Kushelevsky Bread Factory
A constructivist bread factory of 1932–1933 with a round oven in the centre; it worked throughout the Siege.
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🌳 Pioneer Park
A district park of 1968 in Piskaryovka with a playground on the site of the Pioneer assembly ground.
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🏛 Peace Bell in Sakharov Park
The Japanese “Nagasaki Bell”, a memorial to the victims of the atomic bombings, given to the city in 1988.
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🖼 Marinesko Museum of the History of the Submarine Forces
The only state museum of the submarine fleet: models of boats, torpedoes, the hatch of a nuclear submarine and a submarine conning tower in…
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🏛 Former Trinity Church in Ozerki
A church of 1900–1904 by Poklonnaya Gora, consecrated under John of Kronstadt; since 1961 a Baptist prayer house.
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🌳 Middle Suzdal Lake
The smallest and quietest of the three Suzdal lakes — a spring-fed lake between the Upper and the Lower.
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🏛 Monument to the Cats of Besieged Leningrad
A bronze cat on a chair by a floor lamp in a residential courtyard — a memorial to the cats of the besieged city.
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🏛 Alexander Nevsky Chapel in Murino
A tented-roof stone chapel of 1882 at the old fork in Murino's roads.
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🏛 Church of St Catherine in Murino
A rotunda of 1786–1790 designed by Nikolai Lvov — the estate church of the Counts Vorontsov.
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🌳 Murino Park on the Okhta
A park on the bank of the Okhta in the centre of Murino — the very same Okhta that flows into the Neva at Smolny.
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🏛 Lenin on the Armoured Car Monument
Lenin speaking from the turret of an armoured car — one of the first large monuments to Lenin, 1926.
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🏛 Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy
The building of one of Russia's oldest military academies by the Liteyny Bridge.
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🏛 Wylie Monument and the Hygieia Fountain at the Military Medical Academy
The ceremonial courtyard of the Military Medical Academy: a bronze James Wylie and a fountain with the goddess of health.
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🏛 Church of Sts Peter and Paul at the Military Hospital
The house church of the city's oldest military hospital, returned to believers in 2015.
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🏛 K. K. Grot Monument
A monument of 1906 by Antokolsky: a bust of the founder of the guardianship for the blind and a blind girl with a book.
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🌳 Okkervil at Yablonovsky Bridge
A quiet stretch of the Okkervil River between the pedestrian Yablonovsky Bridge and the Granitny Bridge.
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🏛 “Pushkin Has Left” Square
A park by Chyornaya Rechka metro with a bench on which Pushkin seems to have just left his cloak, top hat and a book.
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🏛 Olga Berggolts Square
The courtyard of a house on Chyornaya Rechka where Olga Berggolts lived for her last 16 years — a park in her name with a memorial stone.
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🏛 Lanskaya Station Building
An Art Nouveau station building of 1909–1910 by the architect Bruno Granholm, half “sunk” into the embankment.
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🏛 Kaigorodov Mansion
A wooden mansion of 1905 that in Lesnoy was called “the house by the golden pond”.
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🌳 Serebryany Pond (Silver Pond)
A landscape garden of the 1860s around an elongated pond — in Lesnoy it is called “Serebka”.
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🏛 Transfiguration Church in Lesnoy
A church of 1887–1889 by the architect Prussakov at the former House of Mercy; under restoration since 2003.
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🏛 Olga's Shelter (Olgin Priyut)
An elegant building of 1913 — Countess Perovskaya's clinic for children and women.
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🏛 Arsenal Plant: the Fence of Cannon Barrels
The red-brick Arsenal of 1844–1849: the gates and fence here are made of gun barrels.
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🏛 Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
Nikolai Benois's Romanesque church of 1856–1879 — all that is left of a huge Catholic cemetery.
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🌳 Lomonosovsky Garden and the Chapel of the Transfiguration
A park right above Lomonosovskaya station, laid out on the site of the old Porcelain Cemetery; in the corner is a new wooden chapel.
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🌳 Vinogradovsky Square
A park by the Porcelain Factory named in honour of the inventor of Russian porcelain; the Neva and Volodarsky Bridge are a stone's throw…
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🏛 Volodarsky Monument
A bronze orator with a raised hand by the Neva — not far from where Commissar Volodarsky was shot in 1918.
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🌳 Kurakina Dacha Park
A district park with a pond on the site of the Kurakin princes' country estate: quiet alleys between the avenue and the Neva.
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🏛 Imperial Playing Card Factory
A red-brick building where for almost a century all of Russia's playing cards were printed — the very “atlas” deck design was devised for…
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🖼 Nevskaya Zastava Museum
A district museum in a wooden house of 1894 for Obukhov Plant workers: the memorial room of the worker Shelgunov and the history of the…
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🏛 Monument to the Sailors of the Polar Convoys
Three bronze sailors — Soviet, British and American — on a ship's bow: a memorial to the Arctic convoys of 1941–1945.
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🌳 Palevsky Garden and the Olga Berggolts Monument
A bronze Olga Berggolts against a “ruined” wall with a radio antenna — opposite the house where the poet lived as a child.
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🏛 Vazhe Lake Monastery Metochion
A big two-storey church of the early 20th century that stood for almost a century as a factory workshop, a military enlistment office and a…
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🌳 Warrior-Liberators Park
A long green strip along Zagrebsky Boulevard: 25 hectares on the site of the former Kupchino dump.
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🌳 Fyodorovsky Park
A new landscaped park with a hill that locals call “Glory Hill”: a wasteland on the site of a dump was turned into a park by Dunayskaya…
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🏛 Memorial Pillboxes at Victory Square
Concrete firing points of the “Izhora” line two steps from the monument on Victory Square: the defence line ran here in 1941.
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🏛 Church of St George the Victorious at Srednyaya Rogatka
A tented-roof memorial church by the Srednerogatsky Pond — the first church built in Petersburg after the collapse of the USSR.
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🏛 Sergiev Island and the Church of St Sergius of Radonezh
A white church with green domes on an island in the middle of an old pond; a bridge leads to the island from the Church of St George.
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🏛 The “Wagonette” memorial
A genuine wagonette from the Siege-era crematorium on granite “rails” — the quietest and most sombre spot in Victory Park.
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🏛 Memorial cross on the site of the crematorium
An Orthodox cross and memorial plaque on the site of the brick factory’s kilns — the first public remembrance of the Siege crematorium.
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🏛 Alley of Heroes in Victory Park
The park’s central avenue, lined with bronze busts of Leningraders who were twice Heroes of the Soviet Union and of Socialist Labour.
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🏛 Monument to the Heroic Komsomol
A bronze group on a 250-tonne granite monolith beside the city’s only perfectly round square.
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🏛 Emelyanovsky Square: the pillbox and the “Izhora Tower”
A small square with two firing points from 1941: an artillery pillbox and an armoured machine-gun turret.
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🏛 Obelisk to the First Revolutionary May Day Rally
A granite obelisk on the edge of Avtovo commemorating the first workers’ May Day rally; next to it is the monument “To the Shipbuilders Who…
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🌳 Ponds of the Dachnaya River
A chain of landscaped ponds in the middle of the Dachnoye neighbourhood — all that remains of a river once called the Popovka.
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🌳 Vorontsovsky Square
The remains of old estates along the Peterhof Road, with three historic ponds and a footbridge.
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🏛 Church of Faith, Hope and Love in the Vorontsov Estate
A modest 18th-century house on the Peterhof Road: the Vorontsov estate by Vallin de la Mothe, home to a church since 1991.
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🏛 “Front Line of Defence” stele and the Alley of 900 Birches
A granite stele from 1965 with anti-tank obstacles, and an avenue of 900 birches — one for each day of the Siege.
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🏛 Ligovo Obelisk
A granite obelisk by the station, on the line where the advance on Leningrad was stopped on 18 September 1941.
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🌳 Dudergofka River at the Staro-Panovsky Bridge
A narrow river between green banks flowing down from the Dudergof Heights: in Staro-Panovo it is crossed by three bridges.
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🏛 Church of Adrian and Natalia in Staro-Panovo
A small church on the bank of the Dudergofka, which grew out of Count Buxhoeveden’s round chapel for Grigory Orlov’s daughter.
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🏛 Stele to the Partisan German
A memorial stele to Alexander German — a Leningrader and partisan brigade commander, after whom the neighbouring street is named.
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🏛 “Uritsk Line” memorial and Eternal Flame
A granite memorial from 2020 with an Eternal Flame and mass graves — on the front line that ran here for 900 days.
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🏛 Church of the Transfiguration in Ligovo
A large new church on the site of the old Ligovo cemetery — successor to the wooden dacha church of 1904 that burned down in the war.
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🌳 Ivanovka River and the German tobruks
A quiet river in the green strip between Zdorovtseva and Dobrovoltsev streets; on its left bank are two concrete German tobruks.
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🌳 Friendship Park on Turku Street
A new district park by Mezhdunarodnaya with huge hemisphere-shaped benches, a tower shaped like a pickle with slides, and metal animals…
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🌳 Isfahansky Square
A green stretch of Turku Street named after the Iranian sister city — a path between Friendship Park and the Apple Orchard.
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🌳 Apple Orchard (Yablonevy Sad)
A former state-farm orchard with apple, pear and plum trees, a pond and the Newlyweds’ Bridge — everything blooms here in spring.
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🚶 Brandmeistersky Boulevard and the Firefighter Monument
A short green boulevard by the Neva named in honour of firefighters; by Pribrezhnaya Street stands a sculpture of a firefighter.
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🏛 House of the poet Fyodor Slepushkin
The old wooden house of a peasant poet from Pushkin’s time, at the mouth of the Slavyanka; it is currently being restored.
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