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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 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...

Playing Cards Museum

Museum of playing cards-the only such object in Russia. It is located in a building built in the late 18th century, in which the high society of St. Petersburg was going to have a good time, including playing cards. The discovery ekpozitsii was in 2007, its owner, Alexander Perelman more than 30 years of collecting this collection. He wanted to open it before, in the form of a house of cards, but the Soviet authorities were against such facilities and gambling in general, the more so because...

First Engineer Bridge

Engineers bridge is named after the castle, located on one of its sides. As usual wooden pedestrian pontoon bridge was first built in 1720, which stood for nearly a century, until in 1825 was not made of cast iron bridge at the new Ironworks, whose base rested on the granite foundations. In addition to the extremely lightweight construction the bridge was an unusually richly decorated-iron helmets, spears and shields on the arches, reschetka-heads of Medusa and swords. In the middle of the 21...

South Seaside Park

The park was created in the years 1960-1970 on the centenary of Lenin on site swamp. Park planned for this obazom to encompass regular and landscape planning, connected the wide alley, looked out to the Gulf of Finland. However, the plan was not implemented, as the authorities of the houses built up the park. Now alleys regular part of South Seaside Park planted with spruce, fir, linden trees, oaks, elms, horse chestnuts, weeping willows. A landscape like a part of a forest. Two artificial...

Polezhaevskaya park

The history of the park dates back to 1840 when the rich St. Petersburg Lieutenant General GG Kushelёv bought the estate Buksgevdenom family In this area are seven villages -. Ligovo, Ivanovo, Staro-Panovo, Novo-Panovo, Sosnovka, Novo Koyrovka and new, and to rebuild the manor was invited by a famous architect A. Stackenschneider. Breakdown of the English landscape park has been initiated, created paths and alleys. Local attractions that are open after the Count’s death, became the...