St. Petersburg became one of the city-hosts of The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship. The Krestovsky Stadium, which can fit 68 thousands of people, was chosen as a primary location for football matches. It is a new stadium opened in 2017…
“D-Day 89” – this is the name of the festival devoted to Sergey Dovlatov, a Soviet dissident writer who immigrated to the US as his ironic and truthful texts were subject to rejection in Soviet literature. This year, D-Day 89 will…
There are a few theatres located nearby ProBa School. One of them is just across the street – simple 2-storey neo-classical building “squished” between two others. Today it hosts Maly Drama Theatre which received this building in 1956. But not…
The Festival will take place for the 10th time this year on Saturday, July 6. The day of start is traditionally a first Saturday of July – that’s when the events in the novel “Crimeand Punishment” started. This event has…
The month of May is a month full of celebrations and holidays in Russia. First of May is an official holiday, day of Spring and Labor (День Весны и Труда). Historically it evolved from the workers’ movement in the middle…
The subway is by far the most popular and fastest mode of public transportation. The first line (part of the modern red line from Ploshad Vosstania to Avtovo) was opened in 1955. The deepest station in St. Petersburg is Admiralteyskaya…
There are several ways to master your conversational Russian and one of them is to learn idioms. Using them in a conversation makes speech more expressive and comprehensible. Idioms keep the whole concept and history behind them and help to…
Maslenitsa (“maslo” in Russian means butter) or Fat Tuesday, Mardi-Gras, Shrovetide is a celebration of the end of winter which is held for one week before the beginning of Lent. The traditional food is blini (pancakes) which symbolizes the sun.…
The ProBa Language Centre is located on Rubinstein street where a lot of famous writers and artists lived and worked. But there is only one monument on this street and it is devoted to the famous prose writer and Soviet…
We start the series of posts about the interesting places and monuments that are located around the ProBa Language Center. The Dostoevsky literary-memorial museum is located in the last apartment of Dostoevsky at Kuznechniy pereylok 5/2 as there are a…