The highest cathedral of Russia is located in Saint-Petersburg, in the Peter and Paul Fortress, it’s height up to the golden top with the Flying Angel is 122,5 meters.

The only equestrian statue in the world that has only 2 points of support is located in Saint-Petersburg, on the Saint-Isaac’s Square. It is the monument to the tsar Nicolas the First.

Saint-Petersburg is the city of museums and theatres – there are about 200 museums and 80 theatres. Citizens of Saint – Petersburg are considered to be culturally educated, so even freezing cold weather is not a reason to cancel your visit to the Hermitage. Russian people are used to queue.

Saint-Petersburg has the deepest metro system in the world. Due to the swampy territory that was chosen for the city construction they had to drive the tunnel under the solid rocks. The depth of the underground railway is 70-80 meters. Sometimes you need four minutes to get Lower Vestibule of the underground – it is important to remember when you are in a hurry to work!

Saint-Petersburg is the capital of trams. The length of the tramway is 600 kilometers, this fact is registered in the Guinness Records Book.

Saint-Petersburg is the city of bridges. It has got more tan 400 bridges including 20 drawbridges over the River Neva.

Saint-Petersburg is the city of canals, their length is 217,5 kilometers that is way Saint-Petersburg suffered 288 floods, the most of those floods happened before the 1950s. Now the city is protected from the flood by the recently constructed dike.