Saint Petersburg Digest

A charity auction called Sotssbyt (social market) will be held by the centre Anton Tut Ryadom in cooperation with the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines on 27 March in St. Petersburg. The organisers have shared the event details with Bumaga. Interior items, gramophone records, technical devices and accessories that once were popular in the USSR will be sold there. There will be three minimum amounts of bets: 300, 500 and 1,000 rubles. Half of money raised from the sale of each item will go to the centre for people with autism Anton Tut Ryadom...

Back and neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome and constant fatigue are largely a consequence of sedentary lifestyle. To avoid such troubles, you can warm up right at your workplace. Here is your checklist for a good warm-up: — Move every part of your body and mobilise your joints from top to bottom: neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, spine, hips, knees and ankles. — Start slowly and then increase the intensity of repetitions. This will help you to avoid injuries...

After the abnormally warm winter, temperature peaks are not expected this summer in Russia. According to Andrey Kiselev, an employee of the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, this trend is supported with the data collected for over many years. The climatologists notes that the 2020 summer temperatures will be average or slightly below the average. The upcoming summer will not be hot, as the nature "will try to level the situation, so that there will be no considerable jumps in average temperatures...

The Smolny decided to allocate another historic district in St. Petersburg — Tuchkov Buyan. It will be located between Dobrolyubova Avenue, Academician Likhachev Square, Malaya Neva, and Zhdanovka River. Previously, this territory was part of the Petrograd side, but officials decided to allocate it in a separate district. The decision was made taking into account the opinion of the Toponymic Commission. In the future, there will be a similarly-named park in this place...

In February, St. Petersburg will launch a new restaurant project dedicated to the city's gastronomic history. It will be part of the Three Centuries of St. Petersburg Cuisine festival, which will be held on February 17–29. As part of this event, St. Petersburg restaurants will present the dishes based on the recipes from the St. Petersburg Cuisine book by Ignatius Radetsky which was published in the 19th century. Recipes from the century before last are adapted to current realities and products, but the spirit of the original dishes will stay the same...