Petersburg

Hermitage collection has about 3 million items housed in 365 halls of six buildings. To explore the entire collection, stopping at each exhibit only 1 minute, you will have to spend almost 6 years of life and walk about 25 kilometers.

In St. Petersburg, is the deepest subway in the world.

Nevsky Prospect - the warmest part of the city. Temperature difference suburb summer - 2-3 degrees; winter 10-12 degrees higher.

St. Petersburg for more than trёhsotletnyuyu story changed several names. Immediately after the laying of the city was "Piterburh." In the future, it mutated into "St. Petersburg". Also the first time the city was called "Petropolis" and sometimes "Petropolis". In 1914, it became known as "Petrograd", and in 1924 the town was renamed "Leningrad" (after Lenin's death). Only in 1991 was returned to its original name - St. Petersburg.

Dostoevsky is widely used actual topography of St. Petersburg in the description of places of his novel "Crime and Punishment." The courtyard where Raskolnikov hides the stolen items, he found walking around town when wrapped in a deserted yard in order to relieve themselves.

In the first edition of the famous dictionary of signs Ozhegova urban residents attended only the word "Leningrad", released to the dictionary to separate from each other the word "lazy" and "Leninist».

After the completion of the Winter Palace whole area was littered with debris. Emperor Peter III ordered to announce to the people that anyone can take the square anything, and free. A few hours later all the debris was cleared.

In the US there are 15 cities with the name St. Petersburg. The biggest is St. Petersburg, Florida, on the shores of Tampa Bay.

The first fireworks in St. Petersburg began to organize on the orders of Peter the Great. So notifies the victories of the Russian state.