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Sightseeing in St. Petersburg

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Sightseeing in St Petersburg

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Hermitage
The State Hermitage (before
1917 - Imperial Hermitage)
is the Russian State Museum
of Fine and Decorative
Applied Arts, one of the
world’s largest institutions of
this kind.

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Naval Museum
The Peter the Great Central
Naval Museum is one of the
oldest museums in Russia and
one of the largest maritime
museums in the world, located
in Saint Petersburg, an object
of marine historical and cultural
heritage.

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Alexandrinsky Theatre
Alexandrinsky Theatre (full
official name - «National
Drama Theatre of Russia
(Alexandrinsky)», in colloquial
- Alexandrinka, Pushkin
Theatre) is one of the oldest
drama theatres in Russia,
preserved until our time.

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Peter the Great Botanical Garden
The Peter the Great Botanical
Garden (formerly the Imperial
Botanical Garden, originally
the Apothecary Garden) is one
of the oldest botanical gardens
in Russia, located on
Apothecary Island in Saint
Petersburg.

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Summer garden
The garden is a park ensemble, a
monument of garden art of the first
third of the 18th century in the
Central District of Saint Petersburg.
The garden was laid by order of Peter
I in 1704 and was originally regular.
It occupies a separate island of the
same name, washed by the rivers
Neva, Fontanka, Moika and
Lebyzhaya groove.

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Erarta Museum
«Erasta» is a private and
the first museum of
modern art in Saint
Petersburg on Vasilievsky
Island. The name stands
for «era of art» - «era of
art».

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Bridges of Saint Petersburg
In Saint Petersburg there are
many (93 in total) rivers, arms,
ducts and canals (total length
approx. 300 km) and about 100
reservoirs (lakes, ponds, artificial
reservoirs) over which the ok. 800
bridges (excluding bridges in
industrial areas), including 218
pedestrian bridges.

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Peterhof Palace and Park Ensemble
Peterhof (from Peterhof - «Peter’s
yard») is a palace and park ensemble
on the southern shore of the Gulf of
Finland. Located on the territory of
the municipality Peterhof (from 1944
to 1997 - «Petrodvorets») in the
Petrodvorets district of Saint
Petersburg. The name «Peterhof road»
came from it. Part of it is managed by
the state museum-reserve «Peterhof».

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Pavlovsk Nature Reserve Museum
The State Palace and Park
Museum «Pavlovsk» is a palace
and park ensemble of the late 18th
- early 19th centuries, located in
Pavlovsk, a modern suburb of
Saint Petersburg. The core of the
complex is the Pavlovsky Palace,
the summer residence of Emperor
Paul I.

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Lahta Center
«Lahta-center» (official name:
«Lahta Center») is a publicbusiness complex located in Laht
(one of the historical districts in
the west of the Primorsky
District of Saint Petersburg), the
building will be located
headquarters «Gazprom».

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