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      Oceanarium and Planetarium No. 1

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Sharks, fur seals and a starry dome in a gasholder — no rain, no cold.

      👶 With kids✨ New places☔️ If it rains
      👶 3–6, 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The Oceanarium is stroller-accessible throughout (lifts, ramps), but the lift at the Marata Street entrance isn’t working at the moment — come in through the underground car park of the Planeta Neptun mall. Planetarium No. 1 has a step-free entrance — call ahead and staff will meet you. Take a taxi to Vokzal 1853.

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        🖼 St Petersburg Oceanarium
        ул. Марата, 86
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        Aquariums with sharks, rays and tropical fish, a glass tunnel under the main tank, and seals.
        The shark tunnel
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        St Petersburg Oceanarium
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY 4.0
        St Petersburg Oceanarium
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY 4.0
        St Petersburg Oceanarium
        © Максим Улитин · CC BY 3.0
        • The oceanarium opened on 27 April 2006 in the Planeta Neptun shopping and entertainment complex.
        • The project was designed by the Finnish architect Hannu Laitila, who also designed Petersburg's “Finland House”.
        • Its 57 aquariums hold over 1.5 million litres of water and about 150 species of fish and invertebrates.
        • The main aquarium holds 750,000 litres, and the transparent tunnel under it stretches 35 metres.
        • The first seal, Uma, was found injured on the shore of the Gulf of Finland in 2007 and handed to the oceanarium.
        • Sea water is prepared from tap water: Baltic water is too fresh and too dirty for this.
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        ✨ Planetarium No. 1
        наб. Обводного канала, 74Ц
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        The biggest dome in the world — inside an old gasholder
        A 37-metre dome
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        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.
      4. 🚕 taxi ≈10 min along the Obvodny Canal
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        🍜 Vokzal 1853 food hall · 🧸 play area
        наб. Обводного канала, 118С
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        Lunch and a play area in the former Warsaw Station
        🍴 A food hall with 90+ stalls in the Warsaw Railway Station building of 1853, with a cinema, a games room and the MTS Live Hall concert venue. What to order: Korean ramen, Israeli bagels, a hot dog with smelt, Hong Kong waffles.

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