The people’s vote for the top unofficial sights in St.Petersburg ended today.
The people’s vote for the top unofficial sights in St.Petersburg ended today. The shortlist includes a statue of Gavryusha the mongrel in a yard in Malaya Sadovaya, the Emerald City in Pradva street, the Kamchatka boiler house and many others. In the photo: a statue of Chizhik-Pyzhik the sparrow on the Fontanka River in St.Petersburg.
Fifty-nine informal destinations of the northern capital were nominated online for public voting in October. In the photo: a statue of Gavryusha the mongrel in Pravda street in St.Petersburg.
The shortlist includes a statue of Gavryusha the mongrel in a yard in Malaya Sadovaya, the Emerald City in Pradva street, the Kamchatka boiler house and many others. In the photo: a statue of Blockade Stickleback in Kronshtadt.
The winners will be announced today. In the photo: St.Petersburg residents passing by a memorial plaque in Nevsky Prospekt saying “This side of the street is most dangerous during a bomb attack” (the sign was kept to commemorate courageous Leningrad residents who lived through the 900 days of the Leningrad siege).
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The shortlist was published on a website dedicated to curiosities and unconventional memorials that official city guides tend to omit. In the photo: a statue of Yaroslavl cats in St.Petersburg.
In the photo: a statue of photographer in Malaya Sadovaya in St.Petersburg near the house that hosted prominent photographer Karl Bulla’s workshop in the early 20th century. Installed in 2001. Designed by Boris Petrov.
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Blockade Ice-Hole, a memorial plaque
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In the photo: a statue of Yaroslavl cats in St.Petersburg
A statue of a hare at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St.Petersburg. The hare that survived a flood is ‘sitting’ as a mascot near the Ioannovsky Bridge leading to the Peter and Paul’s Fortress. The legend says that a little hare survived a flood by getting inside Peter the Great’s boot. The Zayachy island (Hare Island) where the Peter and Paul’s Fortress stands was thus named after the brave hare.
