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1.
Ensemble of Central Squares
An introductory walk
Palace Square
Winter Palace
Hermitage - the Hermitage Museum
(or the State Hermitage Museum)
The (small) Hermitage
building
Old Hermitage
Hermitage Theater
New Hermitage
General Staff Building
Alexandrian Column
Guards Corps Headquarters
(Corps des Gardes)
Admiralty
Alexander's Garden
Dom Lobanova-Rostovskogo (Lobanov-Rostovsky Building)
St. Isaac's Square
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Astoria
Angleterre
German Embassy
Mariinski (Marinsky, Mariinskij) Palace
Monument to Nicholas I
Senate Square
Bronze Horseman - Monument to Peter I
Senate and Sinod
The Senate' Arch
Admiralty Embankment
Senate Embankment
2.
Nevsky Prospekt
Wawelberg Bank Building
Malaja Morskaja Ulitsa (Malaya Morskaya ulica, street).
Generaljskij magazin (Generalski, Generalskij, Generalsky, magazine,
store) - Generals' Store
Wolf's Bookshop
Bolskaja Morskaja Ulitsa (Bolshaya Morskaya ulica, street)
Wolf and Beranger
Moika River
Pedagogical Institute (now Herzen University)
Stroganoff Palace
Reformed Church (The Dutch Church)
Bolshaja Konjushennaja Ulitsa (Bolshaya Konyushennaya ulica, street)
Finnish Lutheran Church
Department Store of the Guards Economic Society
Malaja Konjushennaja
Swedish Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church
The Singer Company Building
Kazanskaja Ulitsa (Kazanskaya, ulica, Kazan Street)
Kazanskij Sobor (Kazansky Sobor) - the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan
Ekaterininskij Kanal (Ekaterininsky kanal, Catherine's Channel)
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Philharmonic Hall - the Engelhardt Building
Miljutinskie Rjady (Milyutinskie Ryady, Rädy - Milutin's Rows
Serebrjannye Rjady (Sebrännye Rädy) - Silver Rows
Catholic Church of St. Catherine
Gorodskaja Duma (The Building of Municipal Assembly)
Armenian Church
Evropejskaja - Hotel Grand Europe
Mihailovskaja Ulitsa (Mikhailovskaya, ulica St. Michael's Street)
Assembly of Nobility - Grand Philharmonic Hall
Mihailovskaja (Mikhailovskaya Plosshad - St. Michael's Square)
Grand Duke Michael's Palace - the Russian Museum
Italjanskaja Ulitsa (Italianskaya, ulica - Italian Street)
The French Theater - St. Petersburg Opera (the "small" opera)
Museum of Ethnography
Sadovaja Ulitsa (Sadovaya, the Garden Street)
Bolshoj Gostinnyj Dvor (Bolshoi Gostinny Dvor, the Grand Guest Court)
Quisisana
The Passage (or rather Le Passage)
Malaja Sadovaja (Malaya, Little Garden Street)
Eliseevskij Magazin (Eliseev, Elisseev, Eliseef, Yeliseyev, magazine,
store)
National Public Library
Monument to Catherine II
Alexandrian Theater (Aleksandrijskij Teater)
Teatralnaja ulitsa (Teatralnaya, Theater Street; Rossi Street)
Anichkov Palace
Fontanka River
Anichkov most (Anichkov Bridge)
Palace of Beloselsky-Belozerskij (Beloselskij-Belozerskij)
Troitskaja Ulitsa (Troitskaya, ulica, Trinity Street, Rubinstein Street)
Liteijyj (Liteiny) Prospekt (Avenue of Foundries)
Vladimirsky (Vladimirskij) Prospekt (Avenue of St. Vladimir)
Old Moscow hotel (Moskva, now Radisson SAS hotel)
Coliseum Cinema
Parisiana
Pushkinskaja (Pushkin Street)
Fredericks Building - Severnaja Gostinitsa (gostinica, severnaya,
severnaia, hotel)
Znamenskaja Ploschad (Znamenskaja, Znamenskaya, Square) and Monument to
Alexander III
Soviet obelisk - to the Heroic City of Leningrad (popularly "Phallus in
the Bra")
Intersection with Ligovsky (Ligovskij) Prospekt (jump to another
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Suvorovskij Prospekt (Suvorovsky, Suvorovski, Suworowski, Souvoroff,
Avenue of Suvorov - and the Sands)
Alexander Nevsky Square
Gostinica Moskva (modern Moscow Hotel)
Alexander Nevsky Laurel
Necropolis - the City of the Dead
Church of the Good News (Blagovesshenskaja Tserkov, Cerkov)
Alexander Nevsky Bridge
A walk from Alexander Nevsky Square to Znamenskaja
Night walk from Znamenskaja to Gostinny Dvor
From Gostinny Dvor to Palace Square
3.
Golden Triangle, the Summer Garden and the Field of Mars (Champs de
Mars)
The Summer Garden3
The Summer Palace
Krylov Monument
St. Michael's Castle
Peter I Monument
Field of Mars
Suvorov Monument
Trinity Bridge
Barracks of the Pavlovsk Regiment
Adamini Mansion
The Marble Palace
The Golden Triangle
4.
Litejny (Liteiny) Prospekt
53 Liteiny - the New
Arcade or the New Passage
53
Zhukovski Street (Ulitsa Zhukovskogo)
5.
The Middle
Gorohovaia
6.
From Fontanka River
to Ligovsky (Ligovskij) Prospekt, Ligovka - Pjatj
(Pyat', Piat) Uglov - Five Corners
Five Corners
Trinity Street (Troitskaja, Troitskaya)
Vladmirsky (Vladmirskij) Prospekt - St. Vladmir's Avenue
Vladimirskaja (Vladmirksaya) Cerkov - St. Vladimir's Church
Kuznechnyj (Kuznechny) Rynok - Smiths' Market
Zagorodny Prospekt
Fontanka Embankment
Vitebskij (Vitebsky) Vokzal - Vitebsk Train Station
Military Medical Academy buildings
Museum of Medicine
From Zagorodny to Obvodny
7.
Ligovski Prospekt
Church of Dimitri (Demetrius) Solunski (The Greek Embassy Church)
Znamenskaja Tserkov (The Church of the Holy Sign)
Hotel du Nord
Nikolaevskij Vokzal (St. Nicholas Train Station, Moscow Train Station,
Moskovskij Vokzal)
Pushkinskaja Ulitsa (Pushkin
Street) and the "Palais Royal"
Dom Pertsova - Pertsov's (Percov) Building
Mansion of Franz San Galli
Razjezhaja Ulitsa (Razyezzhaja Street)
The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (or the Church of the
Exaltation
of the Fair and the Life-giving Cross of our Lord or alternately the
Cossacks' Church). Vozdvizhenija chestnago i zhivotvorjasshego kresta
Gospodnja
tserkov (cerkovj); kazachja tserkov (cerkovj).
Ligovka's Art Nouveau
Novokamennyj Most (Newstone Bridge)
Durdinka - Durdin's Apartment Building
Volkovo and Volkovskoe cemeteries
Ligovka's industrial heritage
8.
Kolomna
Krjukov (Kriukov, Kryukov) Kanal (Channel)
Nikolaevsky (St. Nicholas) Bridge
Spas na vodah (vodakh) - the Savior on the Waters
Blagovesshenskaja (Blagovesshenskaya) Plosschad - Good News Square
Anglijskaja Naberezhnaja (Angliyskaya, Angliiskaia) - English Quay
Bobrinskie Mansion (Bobrinsky, Bobrinsky's, Bobrinskies, Brobrinski)
Galernaja Ulitsa (Galernaia,
Galernaya) - Galley Street
Konnogvardejskij Bulvard
(Konnogvardeiski, Konnogvardeyskiy) - Horse Guards' Boulevard
Nikolaevski (Nikolaevsky) Dvorets (Dvorec) - St. Nicholas' Palace
Postamt - General Post Office building
Radio Museum
Novaja Gollandija (Novaia Gollandia, Novaya Gollandiya) - New Holland
Potseluev Most (Poceluev Most) - Bridge of Kisses
Anglijskij Prospekt (Angliisky) - English Avenue
Kseshinskaja (Kseshinskaya, Kseshinska) Mansion
Palace of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (Aleksandrovich, Prince)
Jusupovskij Dvorets (Jusopov, Jussopov, Yussopoff, Yusopov) - Jusupov's
Palace
Teatralnaja Ploschad - (Teatralnaia, Teatralnaya) - Theater Square
St. Petersburg Conservatory
Mariinsky (Mariinskij, Mariinski, Marinski) Teater - Theater, the Opera
Torgovaja (Torgovaia, Torgovaya) Ulitsa - Trade Square, Ulitsa Sojuza
Pechatnikov (Ulitsa Soyuza Pechatnikov)
Prjazhka (Priazhka, Pryazhka) River
St. Nicholas Asylum for the Insane
St. Nicholas Cathedral
Sadovaja Ulitsa near St. Nicholas Cathedral
Podjjacheskaja (Pod'yacheskaya) Ulitsa
Count Hvostov (Khvostov) Mansion
Pokrovskaja (Pokrovskaya) Square
Egipetskij Most (Eghipetsky) - Egyptian Bridge
Repin Square
Vitebskaja - Vitebsk Square
Staro-Kalinkin Most - Staro-Kalinkin Bridge
Verstovaja Piramida - the Pyramid
Litovskij (Litovsky) Zamok - Lithuanian Castle
Staro-Petergofskij Prospekt - Old Peterhoff Perspective (Avenue)
Admiraltejskie (Admiralteyskie, Admiralteiskie) Verfi - Admiralty
Shipyards
Voznesenskij Prospekt (Voznesensky) - the Avenue of the Resurrection at
Kolomna
Fontanka River at Kolomna
From Teatralnaja (Teater Square) to Sennaja (Hay Square)
Spas na Sennoj (Savior at the Hay Square)
Sennaja Ploschad - Hay Square
Gauptvahta - Hauptwacht
Sennoj Rynok - the Hay Market and Haymarket Square
Apraksin Dvor
9.
From Fontanka River to Circular Canal (or Channel)
Varshavskij Vokzal (Warszawski, Varshavsky, Vauxhall) - Warsaw Train
Station
The Railroad Museum
Tserkovj Voskreshenija Hristova (Cerkov Voskreshenia Christova) - the
Church of the Resurrection of Christ
Baltijskij (Baltiysky, Baltiski, Baltijski, Vauxhall) - Baltic Train
Station
Izmailovski Prospekt (Izmailovsky) - Ismail Avenue
Troitskij (Troitsky) Sobor - the Trinity Cathedral
10.
Ohta (Okhta)
Ohta River
Nyenskans
Bolsheohtinski Most
(Bolsheokhtinsky, Bolsheokhtinski, Peter the Great Bridge)
Firestation with minarette
Industrial Ohta
Gunpowder mills
Ohta Cemeteries
11.
From Smolnyj (Smolny) to Litejny (Liteiny) Prospekt
Smolny Monastery
Smolny Cathedral
Smolny Institute
Shpalernaja (Shpalernaya)
Kikiny Palaty - Kikin's Chambers
Tavricheskij (Tavrichesky) Dvorets - Taurian Palace
Tserkovj Vseh Skorbjasshih (Cerkov Vsekh Skorbyasshikh) - The Church of
All Who Mourn
Artistic and Industrial Academy - Academy of Arts and Industries
Finljandskij (Finlandsky, Finlyandsky vokzal, vauxhall) - Finland Train
Station
St. Petersburg Hotel
Kresty - the "Crosses" Prison
Military Medical Academy (the Medical Academy of the Armed Forces,
Medicine Academy)
12.
Vasiljevskij Ostrov (Vassilievskij, Vassilievsky, Vasilyevsky,
Wasiliewski) - St. Basil's Island
Strelka - the
Arrow,
the Arrowhead
The Bourse and the bourse square
Columns (Rostralnye Kolonny) - Rostral Columns
Descent to Neva at the Strelka embankment
Museum of Zoology
Kunstkammer, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Academy of Science, Academy of Sciences
Library of the Academy of Science
Twelve Colleges (Dvenadtsatj Kollegij)
Menshikov's Palace
St. Petersburg University
Sphinxes
Naval College
Krusenstern Monument
Gorny Institut - the Mining Institute
Rumjantsev (Rumjanzew, Rumiancev, Rumjancew, Rumiantseff) Monument
Linii
4th line
6th line
10th line
14th line
15th line
18th line
21 and 22th line
Kosaja Linija (Kosaya Liniya, Kosaia Linia, Kosa Linia)
Lenxpo Complex
D-2 submarine museum
The Harbor
The Sea Port
13.
Petrgradskaja Storona (Petrogradskaya, Peterburgskaja, Peterburzhskaja)
- the Petrograd Side, St. Petersburg Side
Zajchij Ostrov
(Zaichy, Janisaari) - Rabbits' Island, Hare Island, Hare's Island,
Hares' Island
St. Peter and Paul Fortress
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral
Kronwerk
The Arsenal - Museum of Artillery
Nakhimov (Nahimov) Naval College
Cruiser Aurora (Avrora, kreiser)
Kseshinskaja (Kseshinska, Kseszinska, Kseshinskaya) Mansion
The Mosque
House of Emir of Boukhara (Bukhara, Buhara)
Kamennoostrovsky (Kamennoostrovski, Kamennohostrovsky) Prospekt
Modern Circus (Cirk Modern, Moderne)
Monument to the Destroyer "Steregusshij" (Sentinel, Guardian)
Narodny Dom (Narodnyj) -People's House, Popular House, National House
Knjaz-Vladimirskij (Kniaz-Vladimirski, Knyaz-Vladimirsky,
Knjaz-Wladimirski) Sobor - Grand Duke Vladimir's Cathedral
The Building of Municipal Works' Administration - later the Labor
Exchange, the Bourse de Travaille
"Biron's Palace"
Petrogradskaja Streets (Petrogradskaya)
Sergei Witte's Mansion
Austrian Square
Headquarters of the First Russian Insurance Company, House of three
Benois
(Benoises)
Belogrud Building
Karpovka River
LETI, Technical College of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraph
Television Center
Grot Street
Vornihin (Vornikhin) Summer Residence
14.
The Islands
Kamenny Ostrov (Kamennyj) - Stone Island, Rocky Island, Stony Island
"Dom Skazka" - Fairy Tale House
Terem, Saharnaja (Sakharnaya) Golova - Terem, Sugarhead
Elagin Ostrov - Elagin's Island
Buddhist Temple
Krestovsky (Krestovskij) Ostrov
Kullerberg, Kulerberg
Tatarskij (Tatarsky) Ostrov - Tatar Island, Tatarian Island, Tartar
Island, Tatars' Island
15.
Moskovskij (Moskovsky) Prospekt; Moscow Avenue and its' Surroundings
Viazemskaja (Vyazemskaya, Viazemskaia, Väzemskaä, Vjazemska)
Lavra
Railroad Institute
College of Artillery
Building of Metro Administration
Latinskij Kvartal
Institute of Technology
Baltic Technical University
Institute of Architecture and Construction
Obukhovskaja (Obuhovskaya, Obuhovska, Obukhovo) Hospital (Bolnitsa)
"Sementsy" - Barracks of Semionovsky (Semenovsky, Semenovski,
Semenovskij)
Regiment
Frunzensky Department Store
Dairy Plant - Petmol
Cholera graveyards
Novodevichie (Novodyevichye) Cemetery - literally New Virgin's Cemetery
Triumphal Moscow Arch (Gate, Moskovskie Vorota)
Badaevskie Sklady (Badaevsky Warehouses or Stores or Magazines)
Sovetsky Nevsky (Sovetskij Nevskij) - the Soviet Nevsky
Park Pobedy - Victory Park
Chesma and Chesma Memorial Church
Victory Square (Plosshad Pobedy)
Pulkovskaja Hotel (Hotel, Gostinica, Gostinitsa, Pulkovskaya,
Pulkovskaia)
Moscow Road - Shosse or Chaussée to Moscow
Pulkovo
Pulkovo Airport
Pulkovo Observatory
16.
Away from the city
center:
Avtovo (Autovo)
Naryshkins' (Naryschkin, Naryshkin) Mansion - Summer Residence
Dashkova's Mansion (Daschkowa, Dashkov, Dashkow) - Summer Residence
Narva Arch (Narva Gate, Narvskie Vorota)
Putilov Works (Putilov's Works, Putilovskij Zavod, Putilovsky,
Kirovsky,
Kirov)
17.
Environs and suburbs
worth seeing
Peterhoff
Tsarskoe Selo (Czarskoe, Tsarkoje, Tsarskoye) Sello, Pushkin
Pavlovsk (Pawlowsk)
Oranienbaum (Oranjenbaum), Lomonov (Lomonossov)
Streljna (Strelna)
Gatchina
Kronstadt
Coastal Defense Forts
Koporje (Koporie, Koporye)
Schlisselburg (Schlüsselburg, Noteburg, Noteborg, Nöteborg,
Notheborg, Oreshek, Oreschek, Oreshec, Oreschetz, Petrokrepostj,
Petrokrepost',
Petrokrepost, Shlisselburg)
Ladoga, Staraja Ladoga (Staraya
Ladoga)
From St. Petersburg to Zelenogorsk (Teriokki)
Primorsk, Berezovsk, Koivisto, Björke)
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stations)
By sea and rivers - cruise ships,
passenger
sea terminal, passenger river terminal
Organized
Travel
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Crime and personal safety
Accommodations
Hotels
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Getting around
Driving your own car
Car rentals
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Subway - the Metro
Bus, tram and trolley bus
Food and Drink
Restaurants
Cafes and bistros
Fast Food
Street vendors
Museums
Museums
Galleries
Exhibition complexes
Entertainment
Opera and ballet
Concerts (classical music, philharmonic music)
Concerts (others)
Circus
Sport arenas
Nightlife
Bars
Night clubs
Prostitution
Drugs
Shopping
Department Stores
Records and computer software
Public markets
General retail
Liquor, beer and wine
Communications
Getting a mobile phone
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Post offices
Courier delivery services
Internet cafés
Internet access
Environmental
issues
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Quality of air
Personal health
Pharmacies - availability of medicine
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