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Pulkovo Observatory
Russia's principal astronomical observatory, located 19 km south of Saint Petersburg, serves as a UNESCO World Heritage site…
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Saint Petersburg: 77 heritage places documented by Cultural Heritage Online, street by street — what each one is, where it is, and how to see it.
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Pushkin House
St. Petersburg's Pushkin House, founded in 1905 to preserve Russian literary heritage, now occupies a neo-Palladian former Customs…
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Red Banner Textile Factory
A 1926–1937 textile factory in St Petersburg designed by Erich Mendelsohn, the first foreign architect commissioned in the…
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Road of Life
An ice road across frozen Lake Ladoga that kept Leningrad alive during WWII's brutal 900-day siege, evacuating over…
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Russian Museum of Ethnography
St. Petersburg's Russian Museum of Ethnography holds about 500,000 objects documenting peoples of the former Russian Empire and…
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Saint Andrew’s Cathedral (Saint Petersburg)
The last Baroque cathedral built in Saint Petersburg, this five-domed pink structure was conceived under Peter the Great…
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Saint Catherine’s Armenian Church
An Armenian Apostolic church on Nevsky Prospect, built in the 1770s as one of Russia's earliest Armenian churches.
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Saint Michael’s Castle
A fortress-like imperial palace built in 1797–1801 for Emperor Paul I, this anomalous residence combines French, Italian and…
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Saint Petersburg — The Singer House and Russian Style Moderne
For roughly fifteen years before the First World War, Saint Petersburg developed its own reading of Art Nouveau,…
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