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      Rock Petersburg: Pushkinskaya 10, the Rock Club and Kamchatka

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 5 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 8 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The city of Tsoi and Aquarium: from the nonconformists on Ligovsky to the boiler house on Petrogradka.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art✨ New places
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      1. 1
        ☕️ Prosa Breakfast Bar
        наб. канала Грибоедова, 5
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        Breakfast
        🍴 A small breakfast bar by the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood: breakfast is served from morning to evening, with wine and cocktails alongside. What to order: eggs Benedict, syrniki with raspberry sorbet, oatmeal with Parmesan and prosciutto.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 Pushkinskaya 10 Art Centre
        Лиговский пр., 53
        🎟 partly ticketed · The courtyard is free; the museums and some galleries are ticketed
        Galleries, the Museum of Nonconformist Art and a courtyard with installations
        The Museum of Nonconformist Art and the Tsoi wall
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        • The centre's story began in 1989, when underground artists and musicians moved into a house emptied for renovation.
        • In 1998 Russia's first Museum of Nonconformist Art opened here.
        • In the courtyard, a “vertical” John Lennon Street runs up the wall of the building.
        • The centre also houses the National Museum of Rock Music and Kolya Vasin's Beatles museum.
        • The centre's birthday is marked on the last Saturday of June with the “House Festival”.
        • In 2009 Aquarium released the album “Pushkinskaya, 10”.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 Leningrad Rock Club House
        Санкт-Петербург, ул. Рубинштейна, 13
        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 the façade.
        Rubinstein St., 13
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        Leningrad Rock Club House
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The club's founding day is considered to be 7 March 1981 — the first concert of Piknik, Rossiyane, Mify and Zerkalo.
        • The club operated under the Leningrad Inter-Union House of Amateur Art, and the hall held about 200 people.
        • Song lyrics went through a "litovka" — a censorship review — before concerts.
        • The club's annual festivals ran from 1983, and it was they that introduced Kino to the public.
        • Following the Leningrad example, the Moscow Rock Laboratory and the Sverdlovsk Rock Club appeared.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🚶 Rubinstein Street
        The city's main street for restaurants and bars
        The street of restaurants
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        Rubinstein Street
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rubinstein Street
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rubinstein Street
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street got Anton Rubinstein's name in 1929 — the composer lived at No. 38; before that it was Troitskaya Street.
        • No. 7 is a 1932 “commune house” without kitchens in the flats, nicknamed the “tear of socialism”; Olga Berggolts lived here.
        • The Leningrad Rock Club worked at No. 13 from 1981.
        • In the same No. 13, Meyerhold's studio was here in 1913–1914, and now it is the Zazerkalye children's musical theatre.
        • No. 18 houses the Maly Drama Theatre — Theatre of Europe.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        🍸 Bekitzer
        ул. Рубинштейна, 40/11
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        Lunch
        🍴 An Israeli gastrobar at the end of Rubinstein Street, noisy and open until morning, with Tel Aviv street food. What to order: shawarma in pita, falafel, hummus, shakshuka.
      10. 🚇 metro from Vladimirskaya, 2 stops to Tekhnologichesky Institut (red), change to the blue line and 3 stops to Gorkovskaya, ≈20 min
      11. 6
        🏛 Lidval House
        Каменноостровский пр., 1–3
        An apartment building with a ceremonial courtyard where every window and facade detail is different — a model of Northern Art Nouveau.
        Art Nouveau of Petrogradka
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        Lidval House
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1899–1904 — Fyodor Lidval's first independent work, commissioned by his mother Ida Lidval.
        • The north wing served as the Lidval family's own mansion.
        • Four buildings of different heights surround a cour d'honneur, separated from the avenue by a fence on posts of red Finnish granite.
        • The facades carry reliefs of birds, animals and plants, and the year the building was finished is carved above the central portal.
        • The plot is trapezoid, yet Lidval managed without rooms with acute and obtuse angles.
        • In 1909 the painter Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin lived in the house, and in 1904 the family of General Kuropatkin.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🍽 Suliko
        Каменноостровский пр., 14
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        Dinner
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant with a homely atmosphere at the start of Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, five minutes from Gorkovskaya metro. What to order: Adjarian khachapuri, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) with lamb, walnut kharcho, chkmeruli.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🖼 Kamchatka Boiler Room
        Санкт-Петербург, ул. Блохина, 15
        🎟 partly ticketed · the museum is free, concerts require a ticket
        The boiler room where Viktor Tsoi worked as a stoker; now a club-museum with his guitar and concerts.
        Tsoi’s boiler house, with concerts in the evening
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        • Tsoi and Sergey Firsov took jobs here as stokers in autumn 1986, and Tsoi worked until 1988.
        • Alexander Bashlachev and Svyatoslav Zaderiy also worked in the boiler room.
        • In 1987 Alexey Uchitel's film Rock was shot here: Tsoi tosses coal into the furnace and says he feels free.
        • The song "Kamchatka" was written long before he worked in the boiler room — it came out on the album 46 in 1983.
        • Kino guitarist Alexey Rybin wrote a book about the boiler room, "Eto sladkoe slovo — Kamchatka" (That Sweet Word, Kamchatka).

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