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      ✨ Planetarium No. 1

      наб. Обводного канала, 74Ц

      The biggest dome in the world — inside an old gasholder

      Planetarium No. 1
      © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The planetarium opened on 3 November 2017 in a gasholder of the Main Gas Works of the Capital Lighting Society.
      • The empty building was spotted by chance in 2015 by the entrepreneur Yevgeny Gudov while walking along the Obvodny Canal.
      • The gasholder itself is a brick cylinder 20 m high and 42 m across, a federal monument since 2001.
      • The dome's frame is assembled from 1,500 wooden beams and 507 steel “Haeckels” — joints named after the naturalist Ernst Haeckel.
      • The dome is 2 metres wider than that of the planetarium in Nagoya, Japan, the previous Guinness record holder.
      • The image on the dome is produced by 40 projectors with 8K resolution.

      Part of these routes

      • Oceanarium and Planetarium No. 1
      • With a child in the rain: all day under a roof
      • New Petersburg: lofts, the gasholder and Sevkabel
      • Scientific Petersburg: Mendeleev, soils, a whale and the stars
      • Obvodny Canal: factories, churches and a necropolis
      • A date under the dome: Warsaw Station and the Planetarium
      • Polar explorers, sharks and stars under a roof
      • Novo-Kamenny Bridge, a Necropolis and a Gasholder

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