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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 19-20

  … year, the festival's flowerbeds will be inspired by the drawings of famous Russian artists, such as Bakst, Benois, Roerich, Korovin, etc. The festival will last for the whole weekend, but the tulips will be blooming for the next couple of weeks. Another major event that you might like is Finland Day at Tkachi creative space (May 19 from 2pm till 9pm). Guests can …

  16.05.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 12-13

  …anese music, attend workshops and lectures on Japanese art and culture, and visit one of the Garden’s tropical houses. The entrance fee is 500 rub. Another major event this weekend is the 16th Korushka Festival. Thousands of kilograms of smelt will be prepared for visitors at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex on Vasilievsky Island. Guests can try this peculiar fish t…

  08.05.2018

• Travel Tips: Veliki Novgorod

  … 1000-Year Anniversary, also on the Kremlin grounds, is a fantastic visual way to travel through the ages. Beautiful domes and traditional crafts If you’re in town for a weekend, consider spending the second day at the nearby Yuriev Monastery and Vitoslavlitsi, an outdoor museum of wooden architecture.  They’re both about 15 minutes by bus N7 and N7A  from down…

  03.05.2018

• Spring to Your Feet: Parks and Activities in St. Petersburg

  …i-Fi: Kirov Park, most commonly known in the city as Yelagin Island, is probably the most popular. Entrance is free on weekdays, and there’s a small entrance fee on the weekends; however, students get discounts. By the way, on May 19-20 the park will host the annual Tulip Festival: 160,000 tulips of 130 different species will be in bloom for several weeks afte…

  30.04.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 29 - May 2

  …hlisselburg: don’t forget to check out the Proryv/Breakthrough Panorama Museum which is located right near the town. St. Petersburg is the marine capital of Russia and this weekend, April 29-30, the city will host the 5th Icebreaker Festival. Guests can see several Russian icebreaker ships and even learn how an icebreaker works and looks from the inside! The entra…

  25.04.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 21-22

  …This weekend, the city will turn into a paradise for cinema lovers, as it will host several great cinema events at once. If watching a good movie is your idea of spending quality time, then Lumiere Hall is a perfect pick. Lumiere Hall (74a Obvodny emb.) is a creative space that organizes multimedia exhibitions and night screenings of popular Hollywood movies. This Sa…

  18.04.2018

• Travel Tips: St. Petersburg to Finland

  … border you must have a visa that permits you to enter Schengen Area countries. If you’re going by car, try to cross the border on a weekday – Russians are very fond of taking weekend shopping trips to Finland, and the queues can get really massive. It’s also highly advisable to take out a travel insurance policy if your current one doesn’t apply to Schengen Area; be…

  17.04.2018

• VelVet: How to Invest in Your Favorite Places and Make Money

  … example, you can invest 5,000 rubles in a sports club next to your house, 10,000 - in a favorite cafe at work, another 5,000 - in the quest room, where you go with friends on weekends. This amount is a prepayment (deposit) of a service or an institution's goods that a customer can receive. In exchange, the institution will replenish the deposit with an additional am…

  13.04.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 14-15

• Learning Russian and Making Movies: a Finn's Exchange Semester at ITMO University

  …tutor, Eleanor, who helps me with everything, she’s a friend, too. We are also quite close with a few of my classmates, sometimes we spend time together.  What do you do on weekends? I usually go to restaurants, because I like good food. I notice that I tend to go to expensive places in St. Petersburg more often than in Finland. In Oulu I also frequented the gy…

  09.04.2018