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• Live Your Best Spring in St. Petersburg

  It’s time to start living the life we could only imagine during those long and unexpectedly cold winter months – spring is almost in its full reign in the city! For this special occasion, we have assembled a collection of ideas on how to celebrate every token of the season all around St. Petersburg. Let’s see hibernation off in style! 

  30.03.2021

• Bird-Shaped Buns to Welcome Spring

  If you feel like you didn’t do spring justice by celebrating its arrival during the Maslenitsa week, don’t be upset – this time you can do it with sweet buns!

  22.03.2021

• Get in Shape With KronBars

  Spring is here, and with it comes a renewed sense of life and energy. But how do you channel that newfound thirst for action into healthy habits?​ We’ve asked the athletes of ITMO’s KronBars student sports club for their top tips on how to shake off winter’s cold shackles and welcome the blooming season by getting into shape.

  16.03.2021

• ITMO Celebrates Maslenitsa: Stories from Students and Staff

  Do you love pancakes? This week you can eat them to your heart’s content – it’s Maslenitsa week in Russia! This celebration is all about welcoming spring and yes, gorging on pancakes, or blini, as they’re called here. We asked our students to describe how they’re celebrating this traditional Russian holiday.

  11.03.2021

• Love Spring Cleaning Like a Russian

  We call it General Cleaning - it’s when you have an irresistible urge to get rid of the dust bunnies behind the couch or give your windows a polish with a crumbled newspaper, and May is a perfect time to do it. 

  11.05.2020

• Russian Spring Foods You Have to Try

  If you see a guy taking a drill to a birch tree, don’t freak out. All he is doing is collecting the birch tree juice, one of the spring favorites in Russia.

  16.03.2020

• Taste Maslenitsa Like a Russian

  Nothing says party like pancakes, butter, and setting stuff on fire. This week Russia celebrates Maslenitsa – one of our favorite spring holidays. Here’s how you can get in on the action.

  24.02.2020

• 2019 Guide to May Holidays in St. Petersburg

  Wondering how to spend May holidays in St. Petersburg? Wonder no more! Here’s our curated guide of the best-of events happening on this very long weekend.

  30.04.2019

• The Magic of Russian May Holidays

  If you’ve never been to Russia (hint hint you really should come, summer is coming and we promise you won’t freeze to death, and bears have all abandoned their balalaikas and gone on vacation to the North Pole), you may not know that we love the beginning of May as dearly as we love that reposeful week after New Year’s. Why? Because ‘tis the sweet, sweet time of prolonged public holidays, often with the added plus of good weather. Here are our reflections on this wonderful time of the year.

  23.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 6-7

  Admire the beauty of plant life, learn to paint flowers in watercolors, familiarize yourself with the nature of the Arctic, catch the latest photography exhibition, and purchase a unique handmade souvenir at a local fair – here’s our weekly list of the best things going on in the city this weekend.

  03.04.2019