The Culture Committee promised that there would be no bombing on the day the blockade of Leningrad The Chairman of the Culture Committee announced that Italian street will be the center of festive events in honor of the 70th anniversary of the lifting of the blockade, Fontanka reports. On January 25–27, the Komissarzhevskaya Theater will be shown the blockade program “Russian People”, and the Philharmonic will give a concert from Shostakovich's works.

Petersburgers with diabetes can get free glucometers Petersburgers suffering from diabetes will be able to get free glucometers - meters of blood sugar. To do this, you need to come to one of the seven points with a passport and a document confirming the diagnosis. The rally on the distribution of domestic glucometers with a set of self -propeller and needles will last until December 27.

New Year's cover with Santa and Hotel Atlantique will be held in Biblioteka Bardaily on the third floor of the Biblioteka Food and the City project on Nevsky, 20 is preparing a large New Year party for those who want to continue to celebrate after midnight with old and new friends and Santa. Photos from the archives of the bar Bardaily On the first night of 2014, the St. Petersburg group Hotel Atlantique will perform for guests.

The "quarter" had a mass fight On the afternoon of December 24, at the “quarter” mansion, the residents of which were supposed to leave the premises after the termination of the contract, a mass brawl began. According to eyewitnesses, about 30 people guard the mansion.

The Square of the Strugatsky will appear on Moscow Prospekt The area at the intersection of Moscow Prospekt and Frunze Street will be called the name of the Brothers Strugatsky. The toponymic commission of the city unanimously voted for this initiative of St. Petersburg deputies. Alexey Vladimirovich Member of the toponymic commission It [area] corresponds to the spirit of his era and the spirit of many works.

The mass fight at the quarter passed without detention The conflict around the creative space “quarter” resulted in a mass fight , in which about 80 people participated. At the mansion, ambulance and police were on duty. After a two -hour brawl, some participants voluntarily went to the police department to clarify the circumstances of the incident.

The main headquarters of the State Hermitage is still exhibited by the work of the best German masters of the twentieth century. At the exhibition “Against Light”, the work of Otto Dix, Anselm Kifer and George Baselitsa - from avant -garde artists and neoexpressionists of the last century to modern works are presented in the court gallery. Until January 20. From Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 to 18:00, on Sunday - from 10:30 to 17:00 Obvornaya Gallery of the General Staff 100 rubles

Instead of a snowy town, 35 New Year Christmas trees will be put in Petropavlovka The snow town of the Peter and Paul Fortress should have been erected on January 6, but most likely there would be no snow at that time. Instead of snow sculptures, “fabulous Christmas forest” is organized there. Petropavlovka will put 35 New Year fir trees, next to whom those who wish will be able to independently make New Year's toys and hang them on a Christmas tree.

New metro stations can be called "Mountain University", "Barrow" and "Haban" The toponymic commission of St. Petersburg approved the names for eight new stations of the St. Petersburg metro, reports Interfax . The transplant station on the purple line, which will be located on the embankment of the Obvodny Canal (while it is conditionally designated as “Obvodny Canal-2”), proposed to be called “bamber”.

Metaphysics of the city outskirts: the Christmas episode of the series "Ozerki" “Paper” continues the heading dedicated to the city outskirts in which the author of the public “ sleeping areas of the OZ country ” Igor Antonovsky talks about how they live in places far from the Duma, Nevsky and Rubinstein. In the next column: an alcoholic and an unsuccessful actor, a schoolboy and a solid businessman are typical characters and main characters of the series about the St. Petersburg Manhattan.