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Fyodorovsky town
Fyodorovsky town

Fyodorovsky town is a complex of buildings located in the town of Pushkin on the Academic Prospect in Fermskogo Park. Originally built sosdavalis home for clergy and employees Fedorovsky Sovereign’s Cathedral. Complex is now the Patriarchal representation. It is managed by the Dean of the Tsarskoye Selo Deanery. Also called “Fyodorovsky town” is often used to refer to all buildings in the complex Fermskom park. Performed in the style of the XVII century buildings are there...

Museum of phonographs
Museum of phonographs

This very young museum was founded in 1997 by a well-known circus artist Vladimir Deryabkin. Traveling to different countries on tour, he managed to gather quite an impressive collection of more than 300 exhibits, which are separated through the halls of the first-in-history of their origin, where you can see the prototype of the first plate-wax cylinders, exhibits of the early 20th century, which still play a variety of melodies, music boxes and other exotic items that Deryabkin found...

Park Sosnovka
Park Sosnovka

Overgrown area near the pine trees from the Forest Institute was popular in the 19th century as a place for walking. Known that fans of the conversation to pass the time, breathing the fresh air in the park, there were writers Turgenev and Belinsky, who had a summer residence nearby. Also interesting fact is that because of its savagery park is not just getting a place in the duel and one of them was the famous poet Lermontov. While on the duel, no one was hurt, the famous writer was exiled...

Specific Park
Specific Park

The park has been allocated under Peter I, it was decided to grow tall pines. In order training Forest case has been created next to the fortress Udelninskaya School. After the abolition of serfdom, the school was closed as superfluous, and now in its walls works bolnitsa. In 1934, the park was named Chelyuskintsev park in honor of the members of the polar expedition on the steamship Chelyuskin. In times of war took place on the territory of the park line of defense, since that time there...

Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg
Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg

The youngest of St. Petersburg park was founded specifically to the official date. Its area is 91 ha, in particular repeatedly flooded, so measures for bank protection and backfilling of soil were carried out, created drainage and fencing installed. Main parts of the park are a swimming pool , fountains and granite 22-meter column, erected in the form of a lighthouse. Giveaways park from various cities and organizations have become more than 900 trees. Periodically, the park hosts a variety...

The Monument to Pavlov’s dog
The Monument to Pavlov

The monument to Pavlolv’s dog was inaugurated on August 7, 1935 in Leningrad about the time the 15th international physiologist congress took place. The idea of its creation belongs to the academician Pavlov himself. According to Pavlov, the monument emphasized the importance of the dog as the main subject as to carrying out experiences in physiology of nervous...