Saint Petersburg Digest

In 2020, two green areas will be landscaped in the Central district: the Garden of Friendship on Liteiny Avenue and the nameless square on 55 Kirochnaya Street. Residents of St. Petersburg opposed the latter project plan back in the summer of 2019. In their opinion, the area with sports equipment for active recreation is the only place where children can spend time with benefit. According to the plan for dismantling the sports area located at 55 Kirochnaya, it is planned to create "a new public space using modern approaches to urban development"...

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...

Nana Gvichiya, Deputy Head of the Committee for Tourism Development, reported on the success of St. Petersburg in the tourism market at the Operating Indicators of St. Petersburg Hotels in 2019 breakfast meeting, organized by Hotel Advisers on January 28. She said that 10.4 million tourists visited St. Petersburg in 2019, including 4.9 million foreigners and 5.5 million Russians. Compared to the previous period, the overall growth amounted to 26.8%, as the official noted, whereas earlier Smolny expected growth of only 10%...

This year St. Petersburg plans on expanding the network of bike lanes. More than 20 kilometers of routes will be laid in the north and south of the city, including both sides of Karpovka River Embankment, from Morskoy Avenue to the Park of 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg. One of the new bike lanes planned by the Committee for Transport Infrastructure Development 2020 will be laid from Tikhoretsky Avenue to Thoreza Avenue, from the Forestry Academy Park to Institutsky Avenue, and from Pargolovkaya Street to Kantemirovskaya Street...

On January 26, the Muruzi House located on 24 Liteyny Avenue launched an apartment museum to Joseph Brodsky in a pilot mode. Private tours will be held in one and a half rooms until the end of May. And on May 24, on the 80th Anniversary of Brodsky's birthday, the museum will open its doors to all citizens of St Petersburg. The first event in the Joseph Brodsky Apartment Museum took place on January 26, where the writer, journalist, TV host Leonid Parfenov delivered a lecture. Private tours for groups of 15 people will begin this week in the one and a half rooms...

The Practik lecture hall was opened on the fourth floor of the Linii public space. Every week there will be evening meetings devoted to science, art and history. Every month the lectures will be attended by well-known speakers as part of the Person of the Month program: for example, Nikita Kukushkin, an actor from the Gogol Center, will tell about theater, charity and his directing experience. After the New Year holidays, movie scholar Dmitry Bakirov will tell about American cinema industry. You can find more about the program and buy tickets on the website...

In the Trety Klaster, the first Neapolitan vegan pizzeria Daner Pizza Spot was opened. All the pizzas are cooked in a wood-burning stove. The menu includes Tempeneze with fermented soybeans product, Pepperoni with seitan sausages and classic Margherita. As for drinks, you can taste a variety of coffee, tea and lemonades, as well as wine and beer...

The Solaris Lab coffee shop opened on the roof of the former Stepan Razin factory on 49 Kurlyandskaya Street. Previously, it was located on the Pirogov lane. It still functions as a view cafe. There were rumors heard that it is planned to install a glass dome and arrange a concert platform on the roof of the factory in the summer. The hall of the art cafe is decorated with vintage candlesticks, designer poufs, tables, and chairs...