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St. Petersburg Tourism Statistics 2016

01.01.2017

2016 was successful for St. Petersburg tourism in terms of overall number of tourists and profitability. 2017 promises to be nearly these figures and maybe slightly up mostly due to ongoing Chinese wave and the FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in May and June. The preliminary statistics say that about 7 mln tourists visited the city in 2016, 4.7 mln...

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Happy New Year! Read Us, Follow Us, Visit Us!

31.12.2016

The first year of the St. Petersburg Travel Guide’s life (which, in fact, expires only on January 15, but shhhh) proved to be exciting as many of you asked us and we were ready to help with a piece of advice. And your readership was encouraging as well. There is more content to come in 2017! While Russia is celebrating the New Year’s arrival...

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Confederations Cup , holidays

Transport And Weather In St. Peterburg On New Year’s Eve 2017

31.12.2016

The city seems to be prepared well for the coming of the year 2017. Tranpost will get you almost everywhere throughout the city, a show program will be extensive and the weather is predicted to be like of a tropical country. Transport Subway will be in operation through the night, but at longer intervals than usually. Please, mind that fare, we...

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buses , essentials , holidays , metro , weather

Estonian’s Passport Was Stolen At The Russian-Estonian Border By …Crow

30.12.2016

A story that sounds more like an anecdote happened at the Russian-Estonian border crossing Ivangorod-Narva. An Estonia’s resident was attacked by a crow who grabbed his passport and flew away. Russian customs officers tried to catch the bird, but had no success. So in addition to the possible traffic jams we wrote about be aware of the Russian...

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animals , border , Estonia , fun , incident , Leningrad region , weird news

Estonia-Russia Border Traffic Jams Warning

28.12.2016

The Estonian border service issued an warning about possible delays when crossing the Estonian-Russian border during the New Year holidays. It’s wise to have a couple of hours and great amount of patience in reserve. The most intensive traffic falls on the following periods: — in the direction of Estonia from December 24 to January 4 as...

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border , Estonia , holidays , Leningrad region , Tallinn , traffic

Christmas Market Opened in Vyborg

27.12.2016

The most European town of Russia, Vyborg, holds its own Christmas market to add some athenticity to its image of a medieval fortress which in fact it was under the rule of Sweden and Finland. The fair is at the Market square in the city’s downtown, in between the railway and bus stations and the Vyborg castle, the main local attraction. That’s...

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Christmas , Leningrad region , souvenirs , Vyborg

First Halal Pharmacy Opened In St. Petersburg

25.12.2016

A halal pharmacy was established on a street next to the St. Petersburg Mosque, the biggest one in Europe outside Turkey, in December. A local entrepreneur said there would be more outlet of that kind throughout the city if the concept proves to be successful. The pharmacy on the Malaya Posadskaya street is reported to sell only Halal medicines which...

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emergency , Muslim , religion

Drawbridge Gets Its Own QR Code

24.12.2016

The most popular drawbridge in St. Petersburg, the Palace (Dvortsoviy) bridge, a «star» of many iconic pictures and advertising posters about the city, got its own QR code. Using your smartphone you can hear through the code a short history of the bridge in three languages: English, Chinese and Russian. The QR code is placed on the wall of...

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bridges , free time

St. Petersburg — Maldives Flight Just For… About $16,500

23.12.2016

A couple booked a flight from St. Petersburg to the Maldives to spend New Year holidays and seemingly beat a local flight price record. An incredibly expensive trip is not the only one of that kind, it’s just a bit more than a similarly priced flight to Dubai. An air tickets booking service Aviasales.ru reported about three most expensive flights...

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aviation , flights , money , prices , weird news

Light Show At Palace Square

22.12.2016

ATTENTION! The show for December 26 is cancelled due to the crash of the Ministry of Defense’s Tu-154 into the Black Sea. President Vladimir Putin declared December 26 day of national mourning. The Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square will be the stage for the “Let’s fly into the New Year” light show dedicated to the Year of Cinema that’s being...

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art , free time

Ivan Aivazovsky’s Great Exhibition On Display At The Russian Museum

22.12.2016

Paintings by one the most heavily traded of Russian artists can be seen at one of the biggest St. Petersburg museums for several times, though, unfortunately off the tourist season peak. What makes the event outstanding is that it collected Aivazovsky’s works from a bunch of museum and even private collections. Born in a town of Feodosia, on the...

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art , exhibition , museum

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