Transcript ST. PETERSBURG

WELCOME TO
ST.PETERBURG,
THE NOTHERN
CAPITAL OF
RUSSIA.
St. Petersburg – Petrograd –
Leningrad - St. Petersburg
A city with a brilliant destiny.
City of three revolutions.
City awarded the title of HeroCity.
The most important industrial,
scientific and cultural center of
Russia.
HISTORY OF THE CITY
St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 where the Neva
flows into the Baltic Sea.
It became truly a “window into Europe”.
The Russian Navy, the Academy of Sciences, the
Academy of Arts, the first museums, and the first theatres
were all built on the banks of the Neva.
It is associated with the names of Lomonosov,
Mendeleyev, Pushkin, Gogol, Nekrasov, Dostoyevsky,
Gorky, Glinka, Repin, Bryullov.
In 1917 the Great October Socialist Revolution took place
in Petrograd.
In the years of the Great Patriotic War Leningrad survived
in a blockade that lasted 900 days.
Nowadays St. Petersburg spread out over 44 islands.
This city attracts thousand tourists from over the world.
Let’s see some photos
demonstrating the beauty of the
city, its famous places of interest
This is the
monument to
Peter the Great.
It is called
Bronze
Horseman.
Palace Square with Alexander
Column by architect A. Montferrand
St. Isaac’s Cathedral
The Winter Palace. The Hermitage
Gallery, one of the largest
museums in the world, is here.
The cruiser AURORA built in 1897
White night on the Neva
Palace Bridge
Kunstkamera
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