Saint Petersburg photo guide. Anna Tim photo walk.

Saint Petersburg & Neighbourhoods
Anna Tim Photo Walk

Vyborg. Castle & city.

Vyborg was founded to address the Regent of Sweden's King Torgilsa (Torkkelya) Knutsson in 1293 during one of the crusades in the earth, the population of Karelia. So at the Castle Island has a strong castle, called Vyborg.

Kronstadt

Kronstadt is an area of St. Petersburg, located on the island Kotlin in the Gulf of Finland at a distance of 48 km from Saint-Petersburg. Unique value of Kronstadt as a maritime outpost built to protect the new capital - St. Petersburg - almost immediately after its grounds. The history of the town is inextricably linked with Peter I, the establishment and strengthening of the navy of Russia, great inventions and discoveries of Russian scientists, the heroic events of the Great Patriotic War.

Saint Petersburg under World War II. Reconstruction Nikolskoe battle.

January 25, 2009 there was in the Nikol'skii urban settlements « Tosnensky district of Leningrad region » an international military-historical reconstruction on the 65th anniversary of the full lifting of the blockade of Leningrad.

Fort Obruchev

"The seaside fortress, which for all the war will not have to make a single shot from the fact that the enemy would take a reductive to join with her in the competition, the best way to perform its task. "These words have in 1766, it is possible to include all military History of the Kronstadt fortress system, starting with the first sea-fort the time of Peter the Great.

Koltushy. Pavlov institute.

The great scientist, who valued the Soviet state, took advantage of such a state of love and arranged in Koltushi biological, which could dilute the experimental dogs and other animals that can not be done in the city. Fully Pavlovskaya idea was implemented in 1935, nearly 10 years after Pavlov chose from many other St. Petersburg is these neighborhoods. It so happened «scientific village Pavlovo».

The Rumiantsev Palace.

Palace named after one of the owners of the graph, NP Rumyantsev, Rumyantsev creator of the famous museum located here in the first half of the XIX century.

Valaam Island

In the northern part of Lake Ladoga is located Valaam Archipelago islands, which from the tenth century, there is the Savior-Transfiguration Valaam Monastery. The founders of the monastery were the Saint Sergius and Herman.