Guidebook for Sankt-Peterburg
Shopping
Fruktovaya Lavka
12 Malaya Konyushennaya UlitsaBest place to buy fruits and vegetables
Big fresh food market, if you love butchers and prefer to bargain with guys from South.
10 locals recommend
Sytnyy Rynok
5А Sytninskaya UlitsaBig fresh food market, if you love butchers and prefer to bargain with guys from South.
Perekrestok
27 Engels AveGood supermarket.
Getting Around
Take a train to Zelenogorsk, or get off at Repino or Komarovo, to check those green old suburbs at the sea, super romantic
30 locals recommend
Finlyandskiy Railway Station
Take a train to Zelenogorsk, or get off at Repino or Komarovo, to check those green old suburbs at the sea, super romantic
Parks & Nature
Beatiful place with huge trees and old greenhouses
125 locals recommend
Peter the Great Botanical Garden
2 ulitsa Professora PopovaBeatiful place with huge trees and old greenhouses
One of the prettiest little parks in the city. Nothing special, but a cozy place to enjoy river view with a bottle of wine. It's quite distant, but you should like the walk.
21 locals recommend
Lopukhinsky Garden
13 Ulitsa Akademika PavlovaOne of the prettiest little parks in the city. Nothing special, but a cozy place to enjoy river view with a bottle of wine. It's quite distant, but you should like the walk.
Food Scene
Pan & Cake
7Г Ulitsa MiraDelicious pancakes and desserts.
Coffee Room
11 Gorokhovaya StGood coffee and food.
Pryanosti I Radosti
3 Malaya Posadskaya UlitsaSpacious place with all cuisines, pretty good.
Salyut
36 Ulitsa MiraGood coffee and food once again.
Sightseeing
St Petersburg started here. Interesting place, but you better not go there on weekends, it's very crowded
705 locals recommend
Peter and Paul Fortress
St Petersburg started here. Interesting place, but you better not go there on weekends, it's very crowded
Funny place to check Soviet cannons and missile launchers
62 locals recommend
Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps
7 Park AleksandrovskiyFunny place to check Soviet cannons and missile launchers
Oldest mosque in the city, very beautiful. You can go inside, but be ready to take off your shoes. And close to the mosque you'll find a funny place to buy traditional halal food
44 locals recommend
Saint Petersburg Mosque
7 Kronverkskiy ProspektOldest mosque in the city, very beautiful. You can go inside, but be ready to take off your shoes. And close to the mosque you'll find a funny place to buy traditional halal food
Old military vessel built for Japanese war of 1904, and famous for its shot towards the Winter Palace to start the revolution of 1917.
165 locals recommend
Cruiser Aurora
Petrogradskaya naberezhnayaOld military vessel built for Japanese war of 1904, and famous for its shot towards the Winter Palace to start the revolution of 1917.
Memorial apartment of Kirov, leader of Leningrad communists murdered 1934.
13 locals recommend
Muzey S. M. Kirova
26-28 Kamennoostrovsky AveMemorial apartment of Kirov, leader of Leningrad communists murdered 1934.
Entertainment & Activities
The zoo is pretty old, so there's not much space for the animals. But if you can't do without them, here you go
127 locals recommend
Leningradskiy Zoopark
1 Park AleksandrovskiyThe zoo is pretty old, so there's not much space for the animals. But if you can't do without them, here you go
Lenfilm Studio
10 Kamennoostrovsky AveFamous movie studio and a cinema with old and art-house movies.
Futura Bistro I Pekarnya
5, корпус 36 Naberezhnaya Reki KarpovkiPretty trendy place to eat, drink and dance.
На Вина! Бар&Шоп
65 Kronverkskiy ProspektCute wine bar
Everything Else
Television tower built in 1960's. You'll see it from your window, and here it is if you want to check it closer
Saint Petersburg TV Tower
Aptekarskaya NaberezhnayaTelevision tower built in 1960's. You'll see it from your window, and here it is if you want to check it closer
Another distant goal for your walk through Petrograd district, the most famous constructivist building by Erich Mendelsohn.
Red Banner
25 Ulitsa Krasnogo KursantaAnother distant goal for your walk through Petrograd district, the most famous constructivist building by Erich Mendelsohn.
Not sure if this old wooden theatre works now, but you'll definitely enjoy the area with lots of parks, canals and old villas. Try to find a secret island with the statue of a girl with a paddle. It's a hundred metres from the theatre.
7 locals recommend
Kamennoostrovsky Theater
13 Ploshchad' Starogo TeatraNot sure if this old wooden theatre works now, but you'll definitely enjoy the area with lots of parks, canals and old villas. Try to find a secret island with the statue of a girl with a paddle. It's a hundred metres from the theatre.