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St. Petersburg To Increase Prices For Accommodation For 2017 On Rising Demand

30.10.2016

While Saint Petersburg is enjoying an extremely successful tourist season that lasted from late April till late September this year, hoteliers are thinking of enhancing prices for next year. Some industry sources say that it will help reduce the number of Chinese visitors that flooded the city and occupied the middle segment by paying in advance and...

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Warning: First Creepy Clown In St. Petersburg Is Armed With … Plunger

26.10.2016

St. Petersburg, for the first time in Russia, reported sighting a creepy clown. A tall and rather well-dressed man with a clown mask scared citizens and even stopped a car in a traffic lane and hit it with his great ammunition, a plunger, during his two appearances in late October. Activists declared they would pay some money for detaining the clown...

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incident , safety , weird news

First Halal Hotel Opened In St. Petersburg

27.09.2016

In September, first Halal-certified hotel The Silk Road was opened in St. Petersburg near Leninsky prospect metro station, in the south of the city, a 20 minutes ride from Pulkovo airport. Despite being Muslim-focused, the hotel is open to fans of any religion. The hotel has 17 rooms, including deluxe, semi deluxe and one double-room deluxe. The interiors...

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apartments , hotels , Muslim , religion

Summer 2016 was the wettest on record in St. Petersburg

09.09.2016

While the city hits the record in tourist numbers, it also breaks the record in precipitation. The summer 2016 became one of the worst in history for those loving sunny days, and the worst in the modern, post-Soviet, history of St. Petersburg. Just like in Great Britain and some other countries, this summer didn’t provide a lot of warm and charming...

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weather

First FIFA World Cup 2018 Infocenter Opened In St. Petersburg

19.08.2016

The world football tournament to be held in Russia in 2018 seems to be going to be well equipped in relation to information services. Almost two years before the competition St. Petersburg authorities opened the first of eight specialized information centers for fans. The infocenter is opened at 27, Millionnaya street (on photo), just a three-minute...

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Confederations Cup , essentials , football , World Cup 2018

Allegro Train Suffered From Biggest Problems In Its History

15.08.2016

Allegro train operating between St. Petersburg and Helsinki (Finland) experienced huge problems after having collided with a fallen tree on the tracks in Finland last weekend causing passengers to be late for their connection flights and lose several hours during their trips due to poor performance of Finnish railways and authorities. Traffic was brought...

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Allegro , Finland , incident , Leningrad region , railway stations , trains

St. Petersburg Resident Reached Olympic Rio For 496 Days On Foot

11.08.2016

Sergey Lukyanov, 60, has come to Rio de Janeiro to watch the Olympic Games and then further go to be back to St. Petersburg some months later within his incredible two-year walk race tour across the globe. He reached one of the milestones of his expedition for which he had been preparing his entire life, the aim worth even an early marriage. On 1st...

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people , sport

Chinese Guides Shockingly Deceive Chinese Tourists In St. Petersburg

06.08.2016

Huge numbers of incoming Chinese tourists consequently demanded additional guiding workforces. Native Chinese seem to be the good option for guiding excursions around the city due to their obvious high linguistic qualification. But it turned out that their knowledge of St. Petersburg’s culture and history and Russian realities is very far from the...

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excursions , traveler's advice

The Biggest Felt Boot In Russia In Mandrogi Near St. Petersburg

30.07.2016

At the end of July, a felt boot Russian traditional winter boot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valenki) (in Russian valenok, plural: valenki), was solemnly established in a tourist ethnic village of Mandrogi. Sounds nothing unusual? OK, its sizes are 3.2 m. in height and 215 cm in length. No, it’s not a monument to the valenok and not a model of the...

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exhibition , places of interest , suburbs

The Vyborg Castle Is Hiring A PR Specialist For A … Cat!

24.07.2016

The team of only survived medieval castle in Russia, one of the top attractions in the country has decided to turn its cat Filimon into an employee and having faced huge interest to his social media accounts wants to find a press serviceman for him. Cats are undoubtedly human beings’ friends and often officially employed like it is case in the Great...

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animals , Leningrad region , museum , Vyborg , weird news

Russia Tries To Close Some Areas For Hunting For Pokemons

21.07.2016

Just like the rest of the world, Russia seems to be crazy about the Pokemon Go. A few Russian government bodies and companies issued warnings trying to prevent people from injuring themselves while hunting. One Russian politician even suggested imposing a partial ban on the game in the country telling that the Devil itself has come in the guise of the...

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airport , railway stations , safety

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