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11 июля 2017 — Leningrad Oblast
Duderhof heights – a group of hills, located in St. Petersburg. In 1826, Duderhof was gifted to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna by Nicholas I. Two years later on her order, a park was built here and was called Nagorny. After the the Krasnoye Selo-Gatchina railway was built in 1872, the dacha boom began in Dudergof.
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29 июня 2017 — Photo and video gallery
The monument was designed by the architect Vladimir Aleksandrovich Reppo and was opened on June 15, 2000.
26 июня 2017 — Leningrad Oblast
The chapel is located in the Lomonosov city on Pervomayskaya street near the house №3.
The German Lutheran Church of St. Catherine in the place of German colony in Novosaratovka was built in 1833. These days the building belongs to the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Nevsky park is located on the south-east of St. Petersburg, in the southern part of the Vsevolozhsky district. Park took its name from the nearby river Neva.
20 июня 2017 — Leningrad Oblast
Alexander Park is located on the south of the palace and park ensemble of Alexandria on the other side of St. Petersburg Prospekt. In 1832-1836 according the project of A.A. Menelas and I.I. Charlemagne garden master P.I. Erler drained the territory, dug a pond with winding banks and three islands.
The chapel was built in 2004 by the project of Runtova O.M. Cosma and Damian are brothers. They are healers and miracle workers who lived in the second half of the III – beginning of the IV centuries.
20 июня 2017 — News
In June 2017 in St. Petersburg took a place the anniversary festival “Imperial Gardens of Russia”. In this year the main theme of the festival was the avant-garde in the garden and park art. From here the festival took its name – AVANGARDENS.
The Sestra River is located on the Karelian Isthmus. It flows from the marshes near the Lesnoye village and flows into the artificial reservoir Lake Sestroretsky Razliv. The length of the river is 85 km.
The original church was laid June 29, 1871 on the right bank of the river Sisters (in the current Liberty Square). In 1931 the church was closed and in 1932 – 1933 it was completely dismantled. In 2003, the arrival of the church of Peter and Paul proceeded to build a new church near the Nikolskaya chapel, in exchange for the destroyed church. On July 12, 2002, a ceremonial laying of the stone at the basement of the future church took place.
A lot of flea photos.
Photos of most beautiful St. Petersburg bridges.
With the introduction of iron as a building material, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, bridge construction in St. Petersburg entered a new phase. The first cast-iron city-type bridge appeared in 1806, at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the Moika. In those days it was called the Green or Police Bridge.
