Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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4.9 km
70 m
Explore Saint Petersburg in Russia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in Saint PetersburgSight 1: Nizami Ganjavi
The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg is located in a square situated between houses 25 and 27 on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt.
Wikipedia: Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg (EN)
Sight 2: Театр имени Андрея Миронова
The St. Petersburg theater "Russian Enterprise" named after Andrei Mironov was founded in Leningrad on November 1, 1988 by actor and entrepreneur Rudolf Furmanov, who was its artistic director for more than 32 years until his death on April 9, 2021.
Wikipedia: Санкт-Петербургский театр «Русская антреприза» имени Андрея Миронова (RU), Website
Sight 3: Дворец Культуры имени Ленсовета
The Palace of Culture of the Lensovet Palace is a palace of culture located in Saint Petersburg at 42 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, Russia. The building is an architectural monument of the constructivism era.
Sight 4: сквер Шевченко
Shevchenko Square is a square in the Petrogradsky District of Saint Petersburg, formed by the intersection of Maly Prospekt of the Petrograd Side, Levashovsky Prospekt and Ordinarnaya Street. It was named in 2001 in honor of the great Ukrainian poet, prose writer and artist Taras Shevchenko, whose life was closely connected with St. Petersburg.
Sight 5: Taras Shevchenko
The Monument to Taras Shevchenko is a monument erected in honor of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the city of St. Petersburg, which is associated with the main stages of the life and work of the Ukrainian poet, writer and artist.
Sight 6: Дом эмира Бухарского
The house of Emira Bukharsky is a apartment building in St. Petersburg, built in 1913-1914 by order of the Emir of Bukhara Seyid Abdulahad Khan for his son Seyid Alim Khan. Emir invited him to build an architect Stepan Krichinsky, who previously participated in the construction of a cathedral mosque. For the project of the house, the emir awarded the architect the Order of the noble Bukhara.
Sight 7: А. С. Попов
The monument to the inventor of radio, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, in St. Petersburg is located in the park on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt in the Petrogradsky district of the city. It was established in 1959. The monument is a cultural heritage site of federal significance.
Sight 8: Первый жилой дом Ленсовета
The first residential building of the Leningrad City Council is a residential building of the constructivism era in St. Petersburg, located at 13 Karpovka River Embankment.
Sight 9: Спасо-Преображенская церковь
The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior of the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment is an Orthodox church on Aptekarsky Island in St. Petersburg, Russia. It belongs to the Petrograd deanery of the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Wikipedia: Храм Преображения Господня на Аптекарском острове (RU)
Sight 10: Памятник жертвам взрыва на даче П. А. Столыпина
The explosion on the Aptekara Island is an attempt by Maximalist SRs on Prime Minister of the Russian Empire Petro Stolypin on 12 August 1906, in which he was not seriously injured, but the explosion affected more than 100 people, of whom 27 were killed on the spot and 33 were seriously wounded and many died subsequently.
Sight 11: Архитекторам-первостроителям Петербурга
"To the First Builders of St. Petersburg", more precisely "St. Petersburg to the First Builders" or "To the Architects-First Builders of St. Petersburg" is a monument to the first architects of St. Petersburg, A. Schlüter, J.-B. Leblond, D. Trezzini, B. F. Rastrelli and sculptor B. C. Rastrelli. It is located in the Sampsonievsky Garden near the Sampsonievsky Cathedral in the Sampsonievsky Municipal District in the Vyborg District of St. Petersburg on the site of the cemetery of the same name that previously existed here, where all these architects, with the exception of B.F. Rastrelli, were buried. The authors of the project are the architect V. B. Bukhaev and the sculptor M. M. Shemyakin. It was opened on October 17, 1995 with the participation of the Mayor of St. Petersburg A. A. Sobchak. The bronze elements of the monument were completely stolen by vandals in 2000. For the original view of the monument in its entirety, see Yandex.Photo.
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