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Wednesday 28 September 2011

On air stadium "Petrovsky"

The stands filled with fans.
Today on the stadium "Petrovsky" blue-white-blue for the second time in Russian history, will open a series of home matches of the group stage of UEFA Champions League. At 20.00 on the St. Petersburg-time in the main stadium to start the game between St. Petersburg "Zenith" and "Porto".

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Monday 19 September 2011

Sunday 11 September 2011

Alexander Nevsky

Equestrian statue of Alexander Nevsky (sculptor Kozenyuk) was opened in 2002 and is timed to coincide with the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.

Wednesday 7 September 2011

An unprecedented feat in the history of mankind

With daily ration. G. Konovalov.
In St. Petersburg, mark the sad date - the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Leningrad. It began on September 8, when the German soldiers of the "North" captured the city Shlisselburg (Petrokrepost). On the same day the Germans unexpectedly found themselves in the suburbs. German motorcyclists even stopped a tram in the southern outskirts of Leningrad (route № 28 Stremyannaya street. _ Strelna). But the city was ready for defense. All summer, day and night about half a million people created lines of defense. One of them, the most fortified, called the "Stalin Line", was held on-channel. Many homes on the defense lines were converted into long-term support points of resistance.
During the siege of the city was issued 150,000 rounds and dropped 15,000 bombs. The minimum rate of grain in the winter 1941/1942 was estimated at 125 grams. 900 days and nights of the heroic defense of the city were unprecedented feat in the history of mankind.

Wednesday 1 June 2011

International Children's Day

Save the childrens.
"International Children's Day" - celebrated annually on 1 June. Was established in November 1949 in the French capital city Paris, the decision of the Congress of the International Democratic Women's Federation. For the first time the International Children's Day was celebrated in 1950.

Tuesday 31 May 2011

Annular



House merchants Ustinov - House Petrov (Fontanka River Embankment, 92).
In 1822, arch. I. Charlemagne built in the courtyard of a round building with a courtyard.

Friday 27 May 2011

Monday 23 May 2011

The block

Ozerki - a historic district in the north of St. Petersburg. Included in the boundaries of the city in 1963. District got its name from located here Suzdal, or Pargolovskih, lakes. Homonymous railway station Oktyabrskaya railway station in St. Petersburg, Vyborg and a subway station, which came into operation on Aug. 19, 1988. The territory is part of the municipality Shuvalovo-Ozerki.
The first settlements in the district recorded in written sources, there were no later than 1500, when the census book okladnaya Vodskaya pyatina fixes on the shores of Lake Parkola peasant settlement (they were classified as Vozdvizhenskoe Karboselskomu churchyard with a focus on Okhta, and belonged to Nicholas Monastery).
The new development area began in the middle of the XVIII century., country houses and cottages of representatives of many notable names of St. Petersburg were built here. Ever since the beginning of XX century Suzdal Lakes arranged boating, this tradition has survived to this day.
To testify in Ozerki in 1906 murder of George Gapon.

Sun blinds.

Abandoned house in the broken fence.

The game of color and geometry.

You see an angel?

Stairs to the Roof.

Water surface of Bolshoe Niznee Suzdalskoe lake.

Old house in the lush vegetation.

Fisherman at Verhnee lake.
Suzdal Lakes gets its name from Sloboda Suzdal (1 Pargolovo), in which they lived settlers from the vicinity of Suzdal, imported furnishing vast estate of Count Shuvalov. Lake, in turn, gave the name of the district Ozerki.
Upper Lake is located north of Suzdal Poklonnaya Hill. The average depth of 2,5-3 m (maximum - 11 m), length - 600 m, width - 450 m.
Lower Lake is connected with the Middle ducts, in a small area confined to the underground reservoir. Average Lake Superior is much smaller - 400 feet long, 250 m in width.
The average lake separated from the Greater Lower Suzdal (at least until the beginning of the XIX century - Lake Parkola) by a narrow isthmus length of a few hundred meters. Judging from the early maps, to the middle of the XVIII century the lake formed essentially a single system of reservoirs.

Wednesday 18 May 2011

Sister & Bro in the dark


Listen to new track Guano Apes "Sunday lover" from the last album "Bel Air"!



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