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Saint Petersburg UNESCO world heritage sites

St.Petersburg Centre South

Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan at Kazan Square, 2
Kazan Cathedral, constructed between 1801 and 1811 by the architect Andrei Voronikhin, was built to an enormous scale and boasts an impressive stone colonnade, encircling a small garden and central fountain.
St. Isaac's Cathedral at St Isaac's Square, 4
William Handyside and other engineers used a number of technological innovations in the construction of the building. The portico columns were raised with the use of large wooden frameworks before the walls were erected. The building rests on 10,000 tree trunks that were sunk by a large number of workers into the marshy banks upon which the cathedral is situated. The dome was gilded by a technique similar to spraypainting; the solution used included toxic mercury, the vapors of which caused the deaths of sixty workers. The dozen gilded statues of angels, each six metres tall, facing each other across the interior of the rotunda, were constructed using galvanoplastic technology, making them only millimeters thick and very lightweight. St. Isaac's Cathedral represents the first use of this technique in architecture.
Senate Square on Senatskaya ploshchad
The square is bounded by the Admiralty building to the east. On the west is the Senate and Synod Building (now headquarters of the Constitutional Court of Russia). The Bronze Horseman monument adorns the square.
Palace Square on Dvortsovaya Ploshchad
One of the most beautiful and harmonious ensembles of architecture in the world, Palace Square remains the main public space of St. Petersburg after nearly three centuries. Like Red Square in Moscow, Palace Square in St. Petersburg has been the setting of many major events in Russian history.
State Hermitage Museum at Palace Square, 2
Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounts for about one-third of them), including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya, and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum.
Winter Palace at Palace Embankment, 32
The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 215 metres (705 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,786 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases.
Savior on the Spilled Blood church at Griboyedov channel embankment, 2Б
The city's architecture is predominantly Baroque and Neoclassical, but the Savior on Blood harks back to medieval Russian architecture in the spirit of romantic nationalism. It intentionally resembles the 17th-century Yaroslavl churches and the celebrated St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
St Michael's Castle at Sadovaya St 2
The castle looks different from each side, as the architects used motifs of various architectural styles such as French Classicism, Italian Renaissance and Gothic.

St.Petersburg Centre North

Summer Palace of Peter the Great at Kutuzova Emb., 2
When the Summer Palace was completed in 1714, it became the residence of Peter the Great and his second wife Catherine I of Russia and many of their 12 children—with Peter occupying the first floor and Catherine, along with the children, occupying the second one, until Peter’s death in 1725.
Field of Mars at Marsovo Pole, 3
The Field of Mars or Marsovo Polye is a large park named after Mars, the Roman god of war, situated in the center of Saint-Petersburg, with an area of about 9 hectares (22 acres).
Peter and Paul Fortress at Petropavlovskaya Fortress, 3
The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. In the early 1920s, it was still used as a prison and execution ground by the Bolshevik government.
Pavlov Institute of Physiology at Makarova embankment, 6
In continuing creatively the Ivan Pavlov’s scientific inheritance of the higher nervous activity, the Institute has become, by the late 1940s, one of the centers of development of evolutionary physiology, sensory system physiology, concept of the second signal system, husbandry physiology.

St.Petersburg East

The Neva River from Saint-Petersburg to Bogoslovka
It flows through the city of Saint Petersburg, three smaller towns of Shlisselburg, Kirovsk and Otradnoye, and dozens of settlements. The river is navigable throughout and is part of the Volga–Baltic Waterway and White Sea – Baltic Canal.
The Ensemble of the Zinoviev Estate at Nevsky Forest Park, Bogoslovka, Krasnaya Zarya
The southern part of Nevsky Forest Park facing the Neva is located on the spot of the Zinovyev family's estate Bogoslovka (1828-1835, architect Vikenty Beretti). Elements of park planning, a few old oak and pine trees and foundations of buildings have survived from the estate.
Koltushskaya Elevation in Koltushi
The hills stretch for 12 kilometres from the North to the South and for six kilometres from the east to west. The territory abounds in enclosed lakes.
Ladoga Canal in Shlisselburg
The Ladoga Canal was one of the first major canals constructed in Russia. It was one of the projects of Peter the Great, who ordered its construction in 1718. Rapid economic development in Russia required a significant expansion of routes, especially waterways. One part of the Vyshny Volochyok Waterway (1709) linking the Volga river to the Baltic Sea, passed through Lake Ladoga. The Ladoga section of the route was one of the most difficult and dangerous because the lake is prone to winds and storms which destroyed hundreds of cargo ships.
Oreshek Fortress at Oreshek snt, Shlisselburg
The island was first fortified in 1323 by Prince Yuri of Moscow, and changed hands several times over the next four centuries, before being definitively captured by Peter the Great at the beginning of the Northern Wars of 1700-21. By the end of the war, Shlisselburg was deep in Russian territory. No longer of strategic significance, the fortress was turned into a prison for those who threatened Tsarist rule.

St.Petersburg North

Shuvalovskiy park at Ulitsa Vologdina, Pargolovo
Shuvalov park in Shuvalov's Estate, between the village Pargolovo and the river Zamanilovkoy, a monument of landscape architecture of the XIX century.
Yukkov Forest at Yukki
The contour of the landfill roughly repeats the boundaries of the hilly relief, but there are also internal local lowlands filled with swamps.
Razlivnaya Naberezhnaya at Razliv, Sestroretsk
The lake belongs to the Yuntolovsky Reserve, zakaznik established in 1999 to conserve the nature of the nearby wetlands, providing, among other things, habitat for a significant population of the shrub Myrica gale, which is protected in Russia.
Dubki Park at Dubkovskoe Highway 42, Sestroretsk
Dubki Park, located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland in Sestroretsk, is the northernmost oak forest in Russia, founded, moreover, by Peter the First!
Fort Totleben in Sestroretsk
It's construction began in 1907 and fort was put into the ranks just before WWI in 1913. The fort was called in the name of Count Eduard Totleben, well known Russian fortification engineer and head of Engineering Department of Defence Ministry of Russian Empire.
I.E. Repin Museum-Estate "Penaty" at Primorskoye Shosse, 411, Repino
Visitors can still get a good idea of what it looked like in Repin’s time, as well as see many salvaged personal belongings and mementos. The museum has carefully preserved these items — from furniture to photographs — giving an eye into his lifestyle and family life. Other items on display are newspaper clippings about Repin or his exhibitions, as well as preserved family recipes and original cookware.
Komarovsky cemetery at Ozornaya Ulitsa, 52-а, Komarovo
Cemetery of the Komarovo Village is one of the cultural sites of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1990.
Zelenogorskiy Park at Primorskoye Shosse, 536, Zelenogorsk
From 1323 to 1721 the Zelenogorsk area was a part of Sweden. It was ceded to Russia in 1721, becoming "Old Finland", which again was united with the Grand-Duchy of Finland in 1811. Until 1917, Terijoki was part of the Grand-Duchy of Finland, ruled by the Grand Dukes of Finland, who were the Tsars of Russia, (1812–1917).
Lindulov grove Nature Reserve at Lindulovskaya Roshcha, Roshchino
Along with the oldest unique species of larch, other coniferous trees grow in the grove: Siberian cedar, spruce, fir, and also oak, ash, elm. Separate old trees reach heights of 40-50 meters, in diameter - more than 1 meter.
Fort Ino at SNT Fort Ino, Pesochnoye
With the Treaty of Tartu in 1920, Finland undertook to disarm it completely within a year.

St.Petersburg South

Observatory at Pulkovskoye Shosse, 65, Pulkovo
Originally, it was a brainchild of the German/Russian astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, who would become its first director.
Catherine Palace & Park at Garden St, 7, Pushkin
Although Stasov's and Cameron's Neoclassical interiors are superb manifestations of late 18th-century and early 19th-century taste, the palace is best known for Rastrelli's grand suit of formal rooms known as the Golden Enfilade. It starts at the spacious airy ballroom, the "Grand Hall" or the "Hall of Lights", with a spectacular painted ceiling, and comprises numerous distinctively decorated smaller rooms, including the reproduced Amber Room.
Alexander Palace & Park at ul. Dvortsovaya, 2, Pushkin
It is known as the favourite residence of the last Russian Emperor (Tsar/Czar), Nicholas II (1868–1918, reigned 1894–1917), and his imperial family, and served as their initial place of imprisonment after the first of two of Russian Revolutions in February of that tumultuous year of 1917 that overthrew the Romanov during World War I (1914–1918).
Pavlovsk Palace & Park at Sadovaya Ulitsa, 20, Pavlovsk
The palace and the large English garden surrounding it are now a Russian state museum and public park.
Gatchina Estate at Krasnoarmeyskiy Prospekt, 1, Gatchina
The Gatchina Palace combines classical architecture and themes of a medieval castle with ornate interiors typical of Russian classicism, located on a hill in central Gatchina next to Lake Serebryany. The Gatchina Palace became one of the favourite residences of the Russian Imperial Family, and during the 19th century was an important site of Russian politics.
Priory Palace & Park at Ulitsa Chkalova 22A, Gatchina
Constructed for the Russian Grand Priory of the Order of St John, it was presented to the Order by a decree of Paul I of Russia dated August 23, 1799.
Demidov Estate on Sanatorskaya St., Taytsy
This aristocratic mansion on Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa belonged to the Counts Demidov, who almost single-handedly founded and developed the vast mining industry of the Ural Mountains during the 18th century.
Duderhof Heights at Orekhovaya and Voronya hills, Krasnoye Selo
Since 1992 the Orekhovaya and Voronya hills have been designated as protected natural area (of about 66 ha), divided by Sovetskaya Street of the settlement Mozhaysky into two parts.

St.Petersburg West

The Steinbok-Fermor's Estate at Olgino, Lakhta
This part of the Neva Bay coast was owned in the mid-19th century by Count Stenbock-Fermor, of Swedish provenance, who bestowed upon it the name of his wife Olga.
Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas at Yakornaya Ploshchad' 1, Kronstadt
The cathedral was consecrated in a public ceremony attended by Nicholas II and his family 10 June 1913.
Defensive installations in Gulf of Finland see detail
After the Crimean War in 1860-1880s 7 forts in the north fairway and 3 forts in the south fairway were built under the direction of E.I. Totlebena. In the end of 19 century there were 17 naval forts.
Grey Horse Fort at Fort Seraya Loshad, Chornaya Lakhta
It was disarmed in connection with the liquidation of Kronshtad fortress in the 1950s.
Fort Krasnaya Gorka at Chornaya Lakhta
Artillery positions were connected by covered passages (poterns) and were surrounded (are surrounded till now days) with underground powder cellars, galleries, command points and shelters. There were the special railways for ammunition and shells supply also.
Lomonosov Palace & Dachas see detail
Still commonly known by its post-war name of Lomonosov, the estate at Oranienbaum is the oldest of the Imperial Palaces around St. Petersburg, and also the only one not to be captured by Nazi forces during the Great Patriotic War. Founded by Prince Menshikov, Peter the Great's closest adviser, the Grand Palace is one of the most opulent examples of Petrine architecture to have survived to the present, although until very recently the palace itself has been greatly neglected.
Petergof Palaces & Parks & Dachas see detail
Versailles was, however, the inspiration for Peter the Great's desire to build an imperial palace in the suburbs of his new city and, after an aborted attempt at Strelna, Peterhof - which means "Peter's Court" in German - became the site for the Tsar's Monplaisir Palace, and then of the original Grand Palace. The estate was equally popular with Peter's daughter, Empress Elizabeth, who ordered the expansion of the Grand Palace and greatly extended the park and the famous system of fountains, including the truly spectacular Grand Cascade.
Strelna Palace & Parks & Dachas see detail
The main attraction is the Presidential residence on the Gulf coast and an Imperial history going back to the first days of St. Petersburg’s settlement. Konstaninovsky Palace, or as some call it “Putin’s Palace”, is a place where the Imperial age merges with Russia’s contemporary era.
Coastal Monastery of St. Sergius at Sankt-Peterburgskoye Shosse 15, Strelna
It used to be one of the richest monasteries of the Russian Empire and formerly contained seven churches as well as many chapels.
Palace & Park at Krasnosel'skoye Shosse, 1, Ropsha
On October 2016 the palace was rented to the state-owned Rosneft oil corporation for 99 years. The company promised to restore the palace and to create access for tourists to the estate after restoration.
Catherine Palace at Yekaterininskiy Dvorets, Gostilitsy
After the Civil and World War II, the palace was severely damaged. Guests were almost wiped off the face of the earth. Soviet artillery knocked the fascist machine gunners who had settled there from the floors.