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St. Petersburg Taxi Illegally Charged $267 Instead Of $10

09.03.2017

An Irishman was forced to pay a huge amount of money for a 37-minute trip by taxi in St. Petersburg. Getting from the Hermitage museum to the Crowne Plaza hotel cost him 27 times more than expected. As Fontanka.ru website reported, a tourist hailed a taxi and was transported to the hotel by a black BMW. At the moment of payment, he was surprised by...

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Gardiner-Smith: Playing In Russia Is Challenge For Me

08.03.2017

A new FC Zenit St. Petersburg player Jacob Gabriel Gardiner-Smith whose coming to the club surprised many football fans, including The St. Petersburg Travel Guide, gave his first interview in Russia (and in his career) with the Championat.com sports website. He denied that his father provided him any assistance in negotiating with Zenit, said he sees...

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FC Zenit , football , people , sport

International Women’s Day In St. Petersburg, Russia

07.03.2017

The way the International Women’s Day, 8th of March, is celebrated in Russia differs much from how they do it in many other countries. The most important thing you should know is that this is a day off, when governmental bodies and other public establishments are closed, with only emergency, transport units, shops and entertainments running. The...

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holidays

St. Petersburg Lovers Of Sunbathing Opened Their Season With -2 Celsius

06.03.2017

The sunbathers that take the sun every year at the beach of the Peter and Paul fortress have opened their 2017 season. A group of men and women gathered near the fortress’s thick stone walls on a sunny day March 5, surprising and shocking tourists and not surprising locals. What you see on the cover photo is not a flashmob, neither is a movie...

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people , Russian life , weather

Mariinsky Theater Launches Free Classical Music Concerts

05.03.2017

The Mariinsky Theater holds 12 free concerts of classical music on Wednesdays in March, April and May for everyone who will have free time in the middle of the day. The program features Raсhmaninov, Schubert, Grig, Ponce, Piazzolla, Shostakovich, Mozart, Beethoven and others. The concerts are held within the Open Wednesday project that makes it possible...

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culture , free time , music , theater

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