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      Islands and the bay: from Kamenny to Lakhta

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 12 km🍽 4📍 13 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      A green day: Art Nouveau dachas, Yelagin, Krestovsky and sunset by the skyscraper.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places
      👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The islands and the 300th Anniversary Park are flat. The Yachtny Bridge is very high and has no lifts — the climb is long; you can take a taxi to the 300th Anniversary Park. Strollers aren’t allowed up to the Lakhta observation deck — they’re left on the 3rd floor. At the palace on Yelagin only the 1st floor is accessible with a stroller.

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        🍜 Lenpoligrafmash
        наб. реки Карповки, 5
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        Breakfast at a café in a former factory
        🍴 A former factory on the Karpovka that became a technology park and a quarter of cafés and restaurants. What to order: steaks and sausages of their own making at Beefzavod, Neapolitan pizza at Master and Margarita, noodles at Aziaty.
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        🌳 Kamenny Island
        Art Nouveau dachas and the Kamennoostrovsky Palace
        Wooden dachas
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        Kamenny Island
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kamenny Island
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • From 1920 to 1989 Kamenny was officially called the “Island of the Working People”.
        • According to legend, the island got its name from a huge stone that stuck out of the Neva by its south shore.
        • In 1765 Catherine II gave the island to Tsarevich Paul; the palace for him was built by Yury Felten.
        • In the Church of the Forerunner Kutuzov prayed for victory, and the Pushkins christened their children Natasha and Grisha.
        • The summer Kamennoostrovsky Theatre, designed by S. L. Shustov, was built in just 40 days.
        • Under Nicholas II the industrialist Putilov, the merchant Eliseev and Professor Bekhterev built dachas here.
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        🖼 Yelagin Palace
        Елагин остров, 1
        🎟 ticket
        Rossi's white-and-yellow Empire palace with a semicircular facade on Yelagin Island.
        The summer palace
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        Yelagin Palace
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Palace
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Palace
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first house for Ivan Yelagin, in the Palladian style, was built by an unknown architect — Quarenghi is suspected.
        • Alexander I bought the island for his mother Maria Feodorovna and in 1818 commissioned Carlo Rossi to rebuild it.
        • The palace was nicknamed the “palace of doors”: twenty-odd carved and gilded doors, and none repeats.
        • The white stucco in one of the rooms looks so much like porcelain that the room was named the Porcelain Cabinet.
        • In the early 20th century the palace served as a retreat for prime ministers — Witte and Stolypin stayed here.
        • In the war a shell hit a chimney and started a fire; by 1960 the interiors were restored from the surviving fragments.
        • Since 1987 the palace has housed the Museum of Russian Decorative and Applied Art and Interiors.
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        🌳 Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        🎟 partly ticketed · Free entry on weekdays; ticketed on weekends and holidays
        Boats, squirrels, bicycles
        Boats and squirrels
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        Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        © Александр Байдуков · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island's Finnish name is Mistulansaari, its old Russian one Mishin Island.
        • Peter I gave the island to Shafirov in 1709, and the name stuck to Ivan Yelagin, who owned it from 1777.
        • In 1817 the island was bought for the treasury for 350,000 rubles for the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.
        • The island's nine ponds cover 20 ha — a fifth of its area.
        • From 1700 to 1878 the island was flooded 134 times.
        • The Central Park of Culture and Rest opened in 1932, and was given Kirov's name in 1934.
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        ☕️ Ostrov café on Yelagin Island
        ЦПКиО, Елагин остров, 4, лит. Т
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        Lunch with a veranda
        🍴 The oldest café on Yelagin Island (since 2002), not far from the entrance by the 2nd Yelagin Bridge, with a terrace in summer. What to order: aubergine salad, draniki, chicken shashlik, khachapuri.
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        🌅 Yelagin Island Spit
        🎟 partly ticketed · On weekdays entry to the island is free, on weekends it is ticketed
        The best sunsets over the gulf
        A view of the bay
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        Yelagin Island Spit
        © Germash19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Island Spit
        © Purpleabyss · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The terrace on the western cape with a light pink granite parapet was built in the 1920s to a design by L. A. Ilyin.
        • The stone lions on the parapet were moved from the Stroganov dacha.
        • During the Crimean War an artillery battery stood on the spit.
        • The cape is man-made — one of the highest parts of the island, yet it rises only a little over 3 metres above the sea.
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        🌳 Primorsky Victory Park
        Крестовский остров
        A big park in the western part of Krestovsky Island with ponds, canals and wide avenues.
        To Krestovsky: from the Strelka back to the 2nd Yelagin Bridge — about 3 km on foot
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        Primorsky Victory Park
        © Germash19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Primorsky Victory Park
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Primorsky Victory Park
        © Germash19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was laid out at a mass volunteer work day on 7 October 1945 and opened on 30 July 1950, in honour of the naval victories of the Great Patriotic War.
        • The construction was led by the architect Alexander Nikolsky.
        • A triple lime avenue about 2 km long runs the whole length of the park from east to west, with an octagonal square and a fountain in the middle.
        • Bronze sculptures, “The Black Sea Sailor” and “The Girl Welcoming the Victors”, stand by the central square.
        • In the late 1940s the park covered 200 ha, and after the western part was built over in the 2010s its area shrank by almost half.
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        🍽 Karl and Friedrich brewery-restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Крестовский остров, Южная дорога, 15
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        Karl & Friedrich on the southern edge of Victory Primorsky Park — on the way from Yelagin to the stadium: a kids’ room with a nanny (daily 12:00–20:00 in summer), a play area and a mini zoo.
        🍴 A German restaurant in Primorsky Victory Park: a kids' room with a nanny in the tower, a play village by the terrace and a mini-zoo named after Cheburashka. What to order: pork knuckle, Munich sausages, ribs, and dishes from the kids' menu for the children.
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        🏛 Gazprom Arena
        Футбольная аллея, 1
        A huge stadium with a retractable roof and eight supports at the western tip of Krestovsky Island.
        The saucer stadium
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        Gazprom Arena
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The “Spaceship” design by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa won the competition in 2006.
        • The stadium stands on the site of the Kirov Stadium (1932–1950), demolished in 2006.
        • It was built from 2007 to 2016, and the budget over that time grew from 6.7 to 43.8 billion rubles.
        • The football pitch rolls out: the 9,840 m² of turf weighs about 7,000 tonnes.
        • The height to the roof is 75 m, and with the pylons 110 m.
        • On 16 December 2018 the Russia–Finland hockey match drew, according to the organisers, 81,000 spectators here — a European hockey record.
        • Matches of the 2017 Confederations Cup, the 2018 World Cup and Euro 2020, held in 2021, were played here.
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        🌅 Yakhtenny Bridge
        A pedestrian bridge with a view of Lakhta Center
        The bridge to Lakhta
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        Yakhtenny Bridge
        © Germash19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yakhtenny Bridge
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • This is Petersburg's longest and highest pedestrian bridge: the whole crossing is 940 m, and the bridge itself over the Bolshaya Nevka is 490 m.
        • The bridge was built at their own expense by five road construction companies and presented to the city; the main work ran from 25 February to 20 December 2016.
        • One version of the design was a covered two-level bridge with shops in the spirit of Florence's Ponte Vecchio, but no investor was found.
        • There are two viewing platforms on the bridge on the Neva Bay side.
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        🌳 Park of the 300th Anniversary of St Petersburg
        Приморский пр., 74
        A young park on the Gulf of Finland shore with paths, a beach, a lighthouse column and a view of Lakhta Center.
        Along the bay
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        Park of the 300th Anniversary of St Petersburg
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Park of the 300th Anniversary of St Petersburg
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Park of the 300th Anniversary of St Petersburg
        © Germash19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was laid out in 1995 for the city's 300th anniversary.
        • Of the original 89 ha the park has 38.58 ha left — the rest was given over to development.
        • The granite lighthouse column in the centre of the park rises 22 metres.
        • Helsinki gave the park 300 ornamental apple trees, and in 2003 a Finnish “Friendship Stone” with a metal ball inside was installed here.
        • In 2017 the Republic of Korea gave five “Dol hareubang” statues of volcanic lava — symbols of happiness from Jeju Island.
        • In 2023 three 175-metre flagpoles were erected nearby — the tallest in Europe at the time of their opening.
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        ✨ Lakhta Center
        Лахтинский пр., 2
        🎟 partly ticketed · The grounds are free; the viewing deck is ticketed
        The tallest skyscraper in Europe; the viewing deck is ticketed
        The observation deck at sunset
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        Lakhta Center
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lakhta Center
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The tower is 462 m high; it is the world's northernmost skyscraper.
        • The project was first called Okhta Center; the tower's pentagonal plan echoes the Swedish fortress of Nyenschantz on the Okhta.
        • The concept's author is the architect Charles Fu of the British firm RMJM, which won the 2006 competition.
        • The tower stands on 264 piles that go down to 82 metres in the ground.
        • In 2015, 19,624 m³ of concrete were poured into the foundation slab in 49 hours — a Guinness record for continuous pouring.
        • The tower reached its design height on 29 January 2018.
        • The viewing deck on floors 83–86, at 365 m, opened in February 2025 — it is the highest observation deck in Europe.
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        🍽 Food market and restaurants at the Piterland mall
        Приморский пр., 72
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        Dinner at Piterland
        🍴 A shopping centre on the Gulf of Finland shore by the 300th Anniversary Park: a food court on the 3rd floor and restaurants with a view of the water. What to order: house-brewed beer at Papasha Klaus (4th floor), seafood from the tank at Koza Sea.

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