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      Greenhouses, Lenpoligrafmash and Sytny Market

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.2 km + 🚇🍽 2📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Tropics in the Botanical Garden's greenhouses, lunch at a former factory on the Karpovka, the cutlets of Sytny Market and Tsoi's boiler room — Petrogradka when it's pouring outside.

      🍽 Food tour🌳 Parks and nature☔️ If it rains
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        🌳 Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        ул. Профессора Попова, 2
        🚪 entrance from Professora Popova Street
        🎟 ticket · The park and the greenhouses need separate tickets; the greenhouses are visited with a guide
        The greenhouses are open all year round
        The greenhouses are only with a tour at timed sessions, Tue–Sun 11:00 to 16:30, closed Mon. Buy a ticket for the nearest session: it's warm and humid inside, dress in layers.
        📖 More about the placeCollapse
        Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        © Afanasovich · CC BY 4.0
        • The garden grew out of Peter I's Apothecary Garden, already mentioned in the 1713 census; the documents on its founding burned in 1737.
        • Under Catherine II “Tungus tea” was grown here — meadowsweet, thought to be a sweat-inducing remedy for colds.
        • The garden received Peter the Great's name in 1913, for its 200th anniversary.
        • The greenhouse complex has 28 greenhouses with a total area of about 1 ha, and the route through them is about a kilometre long.
        • Two greenhouse quadrangles were built in 1823–1826 so that they can be walked round without going outdoors.
        • During the siege 50 incendiary bombs and 85 shells hit the greenhouses.
        • The Botanical Museum, founded in 1823, holds over 80,000 specimens.
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      3. 2
        🍜 Lenpoligrafmash
        наб. реки Карповки, 5
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        6 minutes along Professora Popova and the Karpovka. Lunch at the factory: steak or sausages at Beefzavod, pizza at Master and Margarita.
        🍴 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.
      4. 🚇 5 minutes on foot to Petrogradskaya, one stop to Gorkovskaya, then 8 minutes along Kronverksky to the market.
      5. 3
        🧺 Sytny Market
        Сытнинская пл., 5
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        The second floor is a café: chicken Kiev at Kotletnaya, plov with flatbread. Downstairs, buy farm cottage cheese to take home.
        🍴 The city's oldest market, in a building of 1913: meat, dairy and fruit rows, a café on the second floor. What to order: chicken Kyiv at the “180°” (Kotletnaya) stall, plov with flatbread at Plovnaya, farm cheeses and curd cheese.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🖼 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.
        9 minutes along Kronverkskaya and Blokhina. Opens at 13:00: the boiler room where Viktor Tsoi worked as a stoker, and his guitar; concerts by ticket in the evening.
        📖 More about the placeCollapse
        • 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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