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St. Petersburg culture

St. Petersburg, a cultural center of the global significance, has accumulated and enormous cultural potential over the period of three centuries. For all this time the city has been a true pearl of world culture. Artists and architects made a permanent mark in the cultural history of Russia with their world-renowned architectural ensembles of St. Petersburg. These are the Peter-and-Paul Fortress Complex, the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Monastery, the Smolny, the Spit of Vasilievsky Island with the buildings of Birzha and the Twelve Collegiums, the Dvortsovaya Square with the Winter Palace, the Arc of the General Headquarters and the Alexander Column, the Dekabristove Square and the Bronze Horseman, the St. Isaac Cathedral, and many more monuments and buildings.

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Religions in St. Petersburg While Russian orthodoxy is still the most popular religious faith in St. Petersburg, in fact there are 268 confessions and religions groups in the city, including:

131 Group of the Moscow Patriarchy, including:
The Russian Orthodox Church (129 groups)
The Russian Orthodox Unitary Church (1 parish)
The Georgian Orthodox Church (1 parish)
Old Believers churches
2 parishes of the Armenian Apostle Church
7 parishes of the Roman Catholic Church
19 groups of Evangelical Lutheran Church
3 Muslim groups
5 Buddhists groups
9 Judaic groups
13 groups of Evangelical Baptist Christians
6 parishes of the Church of the Seventh-Day Adventists
1 group of the Salvation Army
23 groups of Pentecostal Denomination
2 groups of Jehovah Witnesses
2 groups of Mormons
The Anglican Church
The Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church
and others.

There are 229 cultural buildings and structures that are utilized or owned by religions organizations (including built or under construction) St. Petersburg’s churches are among its most admired attractions.

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Tourism in St. Petersburg

According to the UN rating, St. Petersburg occupies the eighth place in the list of the most attractive cities in the world for tourism. Its unique architecture, historical monuments and museums account for the world fame of St. Petersburg. These include the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, as well as the Mariinsky Theater, the Academy of the Russian Ballet, the Philharmony, the University, the Russian National Library, the Pushkin House, and the parks and palaces of Peterhof, Tsarsoe Selo, and Pavlovsk.

Attendance in 2002:

over 2.6 million international guests
over 800,000 Russian tourists

annually

over 200 sea cruise boats
over 150,000 sea cruise tourists
over 450 river cruise boats
around 250,000 river cruise tourists
the average term of tourists staying in the city is 2.7 days
over 3 million overnight stays annually

Apartments and other tourist complexes

133 facilities accommodating around 30,000 people, including:
5 first-class apartments, including the Grand Hotel Europe, Nevsky Palace, and Astoria
43 medium-class apartments
43 economy-class apartments
42 departmental apartments
43 sanatorium-resort facilities accommodating 13,000 people

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Other interesting St. Petersburg facts

Already in the end of the 19th century, St. Petersburg became the largest in Russia and one of the most important industrial, credit and stock exchange centers in Europe. In 1913 there were 1, 012 large and medium-scale industrial firms with 234,000 employees.
After the government of the country moved to Moscow in 1918, the Northern Capital became the second most important city in Russia.
For the past several years, however, St. Petersburg has been actively restoring its former role of the wide-open "gateway" of Russia to the outer world.
St. Petersburg, which is located in the center of the intersection of sea, river, and land routes, is the European gateway of Russia and its strategic center, the closest point to the countries of the European Community.
St. Petersburg is the administrative center of the Northwest Federal District that includes the Republic of Karelia, the Republic of Komi, the Arkhangelsk Region, the Vologda Region, the Kaliningrad Region, the Leningrad Region, the Murmansk Region, the Novgorod Region, the Pskov Region, and the Nenetsk Autonomous District.
The Northwest Federal District has significant natural resources, a well-developed industry, and a high-density transport network. Through the seaports of the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean, St. Petersburg provides the connection of the Russian Federation with the outer world.
St. Petersburg is the second largest (after Moscow) city in the Russian Federation. The area of the city is 606 km², if counted with the closes environs located in the lowland close to the Neva and along the Gulf, the total area is 1,439 km². The geographic coordinates of the center of the city are 59º57' North latitude and 30º19' East longitude.
One of nicknames of St. Petersburg is the Northern Venice. Internal waters occupy about ten per cent of its territory.
Above all, St. Petersburg is known for its rivers, canals, and bridges. Here are some fascinating, facts about St. Petersburg and its waterways.

Number of waterways within the city	40
Total length of all waterways	217.5 km
Number of bridges within the city	over 580
Including drawbridges	20 (including 7 over the Neva)
Length of the Neva within the city	32 km
Number of floods over 300 years	288
Maximum level of water in the city	4.2 m above the Kronshtadt Normal Level Point (on November 7, 1824)

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