St.Petersburg

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Saint-Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia.
The city of St. Petersburg is known as the cultural treasure house of Russia and it is often referred to as an Open-Air Museum.
St.-Petersburg is often called "the Venice of the North", due to its many rivers and canals that divide the city into 42 islands with many splendid palaces and monuments. There is no other city in Russia with such concentration of museums as Hermitage, Russian museum, etc., world famous theatres as Mariinsky, Mussorgsky companies, etc
Saint Petersburg is located at the mouth of the Neva River, and across the islands of its delta on the coast of the Finnish Gulf of the Baltic Sea.
From May 25-26 and till July 16-17 you can enjoy magnificent White Nights on the bank of the Neva River that lasts over 50 days. June 21-22 are the longest days (18 hours 53 minutes). The sun hardly hides behind the horizon, and you cannot find even the brightest stars in the night sky.
As of 1993 the territory of the city is 606 square kilometers, and 1 439 square kilometers with the suburbs.
Population: according to the last census that took place in 1997, there are 4 780 000 people in Saint Petersburg

Climate
Maritime bordering on continental, mild and humid, cloudy, often misty, with a lot rain.
January temperatures average –8°C (17°F); a really cold day will get down to –15°C (5°F). It`s a windy city though and in some areas the wind chill is quite fierce, so bring a good warm hat and scarf. Summer is cool and takes a while to get going: snow in late April is not uncommon and the warm weather doesn`t really start until the period between June and August, when temperatures reach 20°C (68°F).

Time zones
Saint Petersburg is situated in the Moscow time zone. The summer Moscow time (MST) = Greenwich time (GMT) + 4 hours. Winter Moscow time (MST) = Greenwich time (GMT) + 3 hours. Change to summer time is the last Saturday of March, change to winter time is the last Saturday of September.