On Friday, at the 77th year of his life, Dmitry Butyrin died-the famous St. Petersburg architect-restorer, chairman of the Council for the architectural and historical heritage of the Union of Architects, chairman of the restorers section. He was ill for a long time, almost did not leave the house, and the doctors could not diagnose him ...

Olympians who have excellent starting conditions - physically strong, with remarkable health - suffer a crushing defeat. Meanwhile, the Paralympic team wins almost triumphantly on the same tracks in Vancouver: there are 32 athletes on the team, and they have a total of 38 medals. The reasons for the failure of some and the success of others can be debated, but the attitude of the winners is obvious, supported by the scientific developments of St. Petersburg scientists.

During a recent visit, UNESCO emissaries got acquainted with the proposals of the city government to change the boundaries of historical St. Petersburg as a World Heritage Site and listened to the opinions of independent experts. The historical center of the imperial capital has its own Border Guard Day Re-enactment in the Gazprom clearing Last week, a UNESCO monitoring mission visited St. Petersburg.

In the St. Petersburg parliament, the former governor of Kamchatka Mikhail Mashkovtsev, who ruled his region for seven years, works as an assistant to a deputy from the Socialist Revolutionary faction. Compared to his colleagues who, after retirement, receive the honorary and unburdensome status of a senator or other government post, or occupy a leadership position at a long-established reserve airfield, Mashkovtsev is a striking anomaly.

Welcome, or strangers V. Besiness of migrant workers is beneficial to officials The “Gastarbaiter” strap entered the language of the era along with “raiding” or “rollback”. What is hidden behind this concept, to which most Russians instinctively experience rejection, rejection? In the press club “Green Lamp” as part of the campaign against xenophobia, which was held from 19 to March 29 in St. Petersburg, the discussion “conditions of the work of migrant workers and their adaptation” took place.

They do not look some kind of transcendental monsters, two young people, separated by a grate of the defendants from the hall of the city court. The slightly pimpled Maxim of the heads, a musician, known among the ready under the nickname Masya, a young man with a considerable number of fans. No less decent, looking in a light shirt and jumper with an open collar Yuri can be nicknamed Emos.

Hut that has risen in the way of "progress" Disabled person of the Great Patriotic War of the 87-year-old Valentina Vasilievna Nikolaeva, do not take offense, and district officials-the house of veteranki Former partisan Valentina Nikolaev from the city of Tosno Leningrad Region considers herself deprived of more than many other front -line soldiers.