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Some of the city’s most famous residents include artists like Karl Brullov and Ilya Repin; poets Alexander Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova; writers like Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky; and musicians such as Peter Tchaikovsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Designed to accommodate 14,000 standing worshippers, Isaac Cathedral’s dome is plated with pure gold.

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In the White Dining Room of the Hermitage Palace the clock is stopped at 2:10am. This is when the Provisional Government of Russia came to an end, after being arrested by the Communists on 25th October 1917.

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It is home to the Krasin icebreaker of 1905, a vessel that has been preserved as it was originally. Book in for a tour of the departments and prepare to be amazed.

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The city has its own beach next to the Peter and Paul fortress. Often as popular in winter as it is in summer thanks to the presence of “walruses” (those that believe in the health effects of very cold water), we’d recommend wearing a wetsuit!

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The Hermitage Museum holds around three million works of art. We bet it will take you more than a day trip to see them all.

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St Petersburg is the seventh largest city in Europe after London, Paris, Moscow, Madrid and Manchester. It’s also the most northern city in the world, with a population of over one million.

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From Slavic Petrograd to Communist Leningrad, St Petersburg has had as many names as it has identities. Founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as a “Window on the West” during a great period of upheaval in Russian history, the city has always been a sophisticated capital, proud of its history but looking squarely in the face of the future.

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Alexander Column in the Palace Square weighs 613 tonnes. It stands under its own weight and took less than 2 hours to get installed. The Column was put in the square in 1834 to commemorate Russia’s victory over Napoleon and was purposefully designed to be taller than the Vendôme Column in Paris. This is the world’s tallest monument among those out of solid granite and third tallest victory column. The column shaft is the tallest and heaviest solid block ever installed as a column or an obelisk and one of the biggest monoliths ever displaced by people (the fifth biggest of all times and the second biggest in modern age – after the Thunder Stone under the Bronze Horseman).

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Saint Petersburg is located practically at the intersection of 60 degrees east longitude and 30 degrees north latitude. The main observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Pulkovo Observatory, is located in the suburb of Saint Petersburg. The meridian passing through the observatory is called Pulkovo and for a long time served as the "prime meridian" in the Russian Empire, instead of Greenwich.

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The Neva River is one of the most full-flowing rivers in the European part of Russia. In terms of average annual flow, it is second only to the Volga, Pechora, Northern Dvina and Kama. The source of the Neva is in Lake Ladoga. More than thirty rivers flow into this reservoir, filling it with their waters, but only the Neva flows out of it.

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Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703 by the first Russian Emperor Peter I. From 1712 to 1918 it was the capital of the Russian state. In 1914 it was renamed Petrograd, and in 1924 – Leningrad. The historical name of the city was returned in 1991. Today it is the second most populous city in Russia after Moscow.

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Nevsky Prospect is the warmest part of the city. The temperature difference with the suburbs in summer is about 2-3 degrees, and in winter it is 10-12 degrees and higher Celsius.

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The city of Saint Petersburg is also the cultural capital of Russia.

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Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is located on the Neva River, at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The city's population was 5,601,911 as of 2021, with over 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the northernmost city in the world with a population of over 1 million. As the former imperial capital of Russia and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a city of federal significance.

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Peter the Great

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