First of all my excuses for some pictures quality, as they are taken through glass, like here. My first picture of Leningrad, sorry St Petersburg, was of the ship Aurora. And that ship haunted my shooting all trip, as I never got that perfect shot of it!

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Smolna

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Alexander Nevsky monaster and grave yard for the famousfrom our hotel window

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View over Neva river from 7th floor, one striking note was that there is very few traffic ligts or roundabouts in the city!

Vosstaniya square

The old round building is a metro station

The monastery again

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Here the old USSR was very present, in grave stone...

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Vyacheslav Kosenkov, famous constructor and master driver of car sports

Nevski himself

Our hotel, Moskva, with rooms for 2.000 people

A shop of motor cycle parts, specialized in the Soviet/Russian bikes

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Market place for cheap crap on Sadovaya street near the old and huge department store Gostiny Dvor

Gostiny dvor, not a cheap place to shop

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Channel Griboyedova

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Bankovskiy bridge

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Kazan cathedral

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Kutzlov meets Pepsi