Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, known as Petrograd (Петроград) in 1914-1924 and Leningrad (Ленинград) in 1924-1991, is the second largest city of Russia, with 5.6 million inhabitants (2021), the fourth most populous city in Europe, the world's northernmost city of at least a million residents, and the former capital of the Russian Empire. Wikivoyage
Population 5,652,922 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Russia
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide-
Leningrad Zoo Zoo · 530 m -
The A.I. Kuindzhi Museum-Apartment Museum · 620 m -
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Museum of Soil Science Museum · 690 m -
Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Museum · 860 m -
Artillery Museum Museum · 880 m -
State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg Museum · 890 m -
Peter and Paul Fortress Attraction · 920 m -
Peter and Paul Cathedral Museum · 920 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Markets
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Василеостровский рынок
- Monday: 08:00–19:00
- Tuesday: 08:00–19:00
- Wednesday: 08:00–19:00
- Thursday: 08:00–19:00
- Friday: 08:00–19:00
- Saturday: 08:00–19:00
- Sunday: 08:00–18:00
Times vary by day
- Monday
- 08:00–19:00
- Tuesday
- 08:00–19:00
- Wednesday
- 08:00–19:00
- Thursday
- 08:00–19:00
- Friday
- 08:00–19:00
- Saturday
- 08:00–19:00
- Sunday
- 08:00–18:00
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Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Somewhere to run
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.