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St. Petersburg To Build Sobering Center For WC 2018 Football Fans

18.11.2017

St. Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko unexpectedly proposed establishing a special sobering center that will provide medical help for those who drinks too much, first of all, for football visitors who are predicted to flood in large numbers during the FIFA World Cup 2018. The idea behind this is to separate buzzing fans from “normal people”...

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The Biggest Planetarium In The World Opened In St. Petersburg

05.11.2017

With a dome with a diameter of 37 meters and a daily attendance capacity of 5.000 persons, the Planetarium No. 1 in St. Petersburg, opened on November 4, 2017, is really a planetarium №1 in the world by its size. It will feature a few programs dedicated to space and its exploration, an exhibition a lyceum and some other facilities and entertainments....

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free time , places of interest

Doubled Allegro Trains And Changes To Schedule For Christmas And New Year Holidays 2018

02.11.2017

Allegro train connecting St. Petersburg and Helsinki will see a changed schedule for the Catholic Christmas and Russian long New Year’s holidays. On some days, there will be doubled trains with a few trips cancelled on others to adjust to changing demand. Doubled Allegro trains will run on: • № 781 St. Petersburg – Helsinki departing on January...

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Allegro , Finland , Helsinki , holidays , schedules , trains

Ferry Company MOBY SPL Can Cease Operation In St. Petersburg In 2018

31.10.2017

St. Petersburg is going to be left without a ferry service for 2018 as the only ferry operator, MOBY SPL (till 2016 St. PeterLine), is struggling to sign a contract for rent berths and other facilities at the Sea Vokzal, the only sea passenger terminal in the city fit for the company. The reason is that the terminal was brought into court by the city’s...

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authority , ferry , Helsinki , Marine facade , Stockholm , Tallinn

Hermitage Wound Up Clock Stopped At Key Moment Of Bolshevik Revolution In 1917

29.10.2017

Mikhail Piotrovsky, the State Hermitage museum director, did what nobody could do before him over the course of 100 years. He breathed a new life into a clock that was stopped not just a centenary ago, but at the very moment when Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government and established their dictatorship that lasted till 1991. The night on October...

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Hermitage , history , palaces

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