Ziferblat
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11
2
It is the best place to chat with friends while playing board games, indulging in limitless cookies and coffee/tea or munching on some cereal. Great view looking onto Nevsky prospect, movie nights and different lectures at the weekends.
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Grand Maket Rossiya
Museums & Galleries
11
2
Outstanding attention to details makes this project interesting and amusing both for kids and adults. Looks like all the characters live here their own lives. Admission is pricey (10€), but it is totally worth it.
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Yusupov Palace
Museums & Galleries
10
0
Yusupov palace is worth visiting not just because notorious Rasputin was murdered there (though of course there is a small exposition dedicated to those events), but also because its interiors, that used to belong to the richest family of Russia, are nowadays the best preserved evidence of the 18th century living.
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Maritime Victory park on Krestovsky island
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12
1
It is a good way to relax like a local and feel the breeze from the Gulf of Finland. Family with kids can go to the mini zoo and for a company of friends I suggest to visit an amusement park located nearby. There is a good restaurant "Russian Fishing" where you can catch a fish and then eat it grilled.
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Yusupov Garden
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11
2
Apart from being a perfect place for a picnic in the middle of the city, it's also interesting as one of cultural heritage objects of Russia. By the way, at its lake the first world championship on figure skating took place in 1896.
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Excursion on a BOAT
Museums & Galleries
10
1
Frankly saying I don't know if locals actually adore it or not, it's just that majority of locals have to 'participate' in a boat excursion AT LEAST a couple times each year when they get a visit from a friend from another place, because it's the best, easiest and quickest way to introduce the city to a person and vice versa! :)
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Dom Kino/Rodina
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10
3
Some bars might show movies in English occasionally, but Rodina and Dom Kino are the oldest cinema, where on a regular basis you can enjoy quite a choice of films in original languages with subtitles (normally they're dubbed). Tickets cost 2,50-6 euros
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Pushkinskaya10
Museums & Galleries
17
1
If you want to feel the spirit of the open-minded people, meet young artists and singers you’ll have such opportunity here. Plus, you will get to see the unofficial street of John Lennon, decorated with bas-reliefs of Beatle’s members, colorful graffiti and poetry on the walls that compliments the atmosphere.
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Peter and Paul fortress
Museums & Galleries
14
7
Have a look at the most controversial statue of Peter the Great, peek at the all-season sun lovers (the strongest ones come for a sunbath even in February), try to hit the hare by Ioannovsky bridge with a coin for good luck and hear traditional cannon shot at midday (on summer Saturdays you can also observe change of guards right after that).
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Angleterre cinema lounge
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11
2
The cinema is situated in the hotel "Angleter" (on the ground floor) famous with its splendid furnishings and has about 200 seats. So you'll fell yourself like in the begining of the 20th centure with the exception of great sound and quality of the picture.
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Павловск / Pavlovsk
Museums & Galleries
9
2
Besides beautiful landscapes you can also enjoy different temporary and permanent exhibitions, see authentic clothes that belonged to the members of the imperial family in the Museum of Costumes, participate in historical lectures, ride a boat or even a horse.
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Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum
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6
1
At first you can spend some time in the garden but take a chance to visit the museum of Anna Akhmatova, Russian modernist poet of the The Silver Age. Her flat, where she lived under the supervision of the KGB, contains peculiar
furniture of the USSR period, documents, photographs and personal Akhmatova’s things.
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Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (Музей советских игровых автоматов)
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6
1
The place for those who will never forget their childhood dreams. If you're interested in "back to the USSR" theme 350 roubles gets you about 15 games, enough to have such experience. Extra points will add a soda water machine (taste familiar to every Soviet schoolchild) and some snack to recharge if you get tired playing.
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Erarta
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9
4
Besides pictures here you can watch movies about modern art (f.e. funny cartoon about Malevich's "Black Square"), participate in experimental and ordinary concerts, audio installations or even "adopt" or buy an artwork.
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Udelka
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8
5
It is actually a great place for treasure hunting if you're in the mood for this kind of things, though it might be a bit difficult to find: from metro Udelnaya go to the right, cross the railways, then turn to the right and keep going as long as you can (there will be some crappy shoe/clothes kiosks, just ignore them)
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