St. Petersburg

Native name: Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg)
Country: Russia
Climate: Dfb
Language:
  1. Russian
Elevation: 11m
Global city category.: Gamma Global Cities
City population.: 4,990,602 (2012) Rank: #27
Metro population.: 4,879,566 (2010)
At once Russian and thoroughly European, St. Petersburg boasts a magnificent city center (designated world heritage by UNESCO) and looks as if it's been around for many centuries. In point of fact, St. Petersburg (founded in 1703) is younger than some cities of the New World.

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1: Alexandrovskiy Garden 2: Anglia 3: Bookbridge 4: Fahrenheit 451 5: Fontanka, 185 6: Fontanka, 38 7: Fontanka, 57 8: House of Books 9: Isaakievskaya Square, 6 10: Knigi i Kofe 11: New Holland 12: Planetarium One 13: Podpisnye Izdaniya 14: Red Triangle 15: St. Isaac's Cathedral 16: Summer Garden 17: The Church of the Savior of Spilled Blood 18: The Kazan Cathedral 19: The Peter and Paul Fortress 20: The Smolny Cathedral 21: The Winter Palace / Hermitage 22: The Zverkov House 23: Vladimir Nabokov Museum
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