Our favorite Web links and the best local media.
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Web Links:
St. Petersburg City
Official portal of the St. Petersburg city government. eng.gov.spb.ru
Petersburgcity.com
Website designed for visitors, with useful information on services, events, accommodation, nightlife, excursions, and sights. www.petersburgcity.com
Petersburg
Website with practical information about the organization of the city, its various departments and services. www.petersburg-va.org
Saint-Petersburg.com
A fine first stop for visitors; packed with general travel information, maps, events, and contact numbers. www.saint-petersburg.com
Nevsky-Prospekt.com
Handy historical overview with helpful links to museums. www.nevsky-prospekt.com
The Encyclopaedia of Saint Petersburg
A huge detailed and relatively reliable resource about the monuments, people, and life of the city. www.encspb.ru/en
St. Petersburg in Your Pocket
Guide to hotels, restaurants, cafés, nightlife, and events that also appears in paper form. Useful information on sightseeing tours, handy tips on getting around, and some features of the city’s life. Train, bus, and flight information. Expat contacts. www.inyourpocket.com/Russia/city/st_petersburg.html
St. Petersburg Environs
Revealing, downloadable historical maps of the city and its surrounding area. Everything you need to know about current and upcoming exhibitions in the city’s galleries, museums, palaces, academies, and exhibition halls; in Russian, with useful links. newsartspb.ru
Local Media:
Where St. Petersburg
A comprehensive, free monthly guide to restaurants, shopping, and entertainment. Extensive listing of events throughout the city. Feature articles on cultural life and local personalities.
St. Petersburg
The Official City Guide A handy, well-produced guide of major events, hotels, restaurants, galleries, and shopping. Useful maps of the city center and the metro network. www.city-guide.spb.ru
St. Petersburg Times
Solid, useful newspaper. Published twice a week it covers local, national, and international news. Provides listings and reviews for restaurants, clubs, films, and cultural events. Free copies available in most of the city’s restaurants, cafés, hotels, and museums. www.sptimesrussia.com
St. Petersburg International Business Association for North-western Russia (SPIBA)
The free newspaper of the St. Petersburg International Business Association for North-western Russia. Comprehensive coverage of the region’s business news and informed political commentary. www.spiba.r
Neva News
Free monthly English-language color broadsheet with loads of features that is also on the Web. www.nevanews.com
St. Petersburg News.Net
Continually updated English-language online resource covering local, national, and international news. www.stpetersburgnews.net
Pulse St. Petersburg
Free monthly entertainment magazine published in English and Russian with informative articles about events and people of the moment. www.pulse.ru
