In St. Petersburg, Tom Sawyer Fest launched - a festival, during which volunteers restore the historical environment. In particular, wooden buildings. The festival was created in Samara, and during its existence about 30 cities have already joined it, among which Kazan, Voronezh, Tomsk, Ryazan, Omsk, Kostroma and others. Now the organizers are choosing a St. Petersburg building, the restoration of which will be engaged in this season, and ask them to send them their options for houses.

On the morning of January 21, a complete lunar eclipse will occur. According to the Moscow planetarium, this phenomenon can be observed from 06:34 to 09:51 Moscow time. The eclipse will be able to see residents of the north-west of the European part of Russia , the north of the Urals and Siberia, the Far East. The moon will plunge into the northern part of the shadow of the Earth, which completely overshadows the visible surface of the satellite.

Seven people were detained at Solovetsky stone. According to the information of the OVD Info, they stood in single pickets against torture and repression and in turn replaced each other. Among the detainees, the novel Samoilov, Shahnaz Shitik, Elena Grigoryeva, Dmitry Dorokhin, Irina Bogdanovskaya and Dmitry Nedin, as well as Vladimir Shipitsyn, who were detained earlier.

Alexander Beglov fired four vice-governors of St. Petersburg The acting governor of St. Petersburg , Alexander Beglov, dismissed four vice-governors of the city, the press service of Smolny reports. Among them is Alexander Govorunov, Mikhail Kucheryy, Konstantin Serov and Sergey Movchan. Serov and Movchanes were appointed advisers to the governor. Earlier, Beglov also fired vice-governors Igor Albin and Mikhail Mokratsov.

The interactive installation “Nine Hundred Days of Courage,” dedicated to the liberation of Leningrad from the siege, opened at the House of Culture “Bogatyrsky, 52.” The installation represents an apartment of residents of a besieged city. It recreates the interior of the room of a teacher and a military man who lived and worked in a besieged city. The room has thick curtains, an old bed, a stove and a sled for transporting drinking water.

On January 19, in St. Petersburg, a rally of the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by neo -Nazis on January 19, 2009, took place in St. Petersburg. Earlier, Smolny did not agree on the organizers of the rally, rejecting all the proposed sites. Therefore, the activists decided to meet at 14:00 at the Chernyshevskaya metro station in order to lay flowers to the monument to the victims of political repression on the Voskresenskaya embankment.

A fire occurred in the Primorsky district: the apartment was burning in house 34/18 on Sizov Avenue. The message about the fire arrived at about 14:00. According to Fontanka with reference to eyewitnesses, glass burst from the fire in the apartment, the wounded was taken out of the entrance. In the group "DTP and PE Petersburg", where they published photos and videos of a fire, eyewitnesses report at least one victim. In a two -room apartment, an area of ​​15 square meters burned.

The St. Petersburg Philharmonic launched a cycle of lectures-seminars “ Music as a language of emotions ”-about how to listen to academic music. The course is conducted by musicologist Georgy Kovalevsky. During the lectures, students will tell how classical music appeared and how it was perceived by people of past eras, how to focus on music during the concert and how it affects our emotional background.

A seven -room apartment in Benoit’s house on Kronverskaya Street 29/37 is sold on cyan. For several years, composer Dmitry Shostakovich lived in it. The area of ​​the apartment is 240 square meters. m. It is located on the 5th floor. The apartment has two entrances, a terrace, two bathrooms, several pantries, as well as double -leaf doors, stucco moldings and a fireplace, the announcement says. Cost - 26.9 million rubles.

On the night of January 19, a coordination meeting was held in Smolny in connection with snow cleaning in St. Petersburg. For a day, the city has an increased readiness of the territorial system of preventing and eliminating emergency situations. The acting governor of St. Petersburg , Alexander Beglov, said that complaints about ice and uncleaned snow continued to come from the townspeople. Now in the city it is necessary to remove 60 million square meters of roads and sidewalks.

About 30 fonts were organized for baptism in St. Petersburg - on the Neva, in ponds, lakes and in the territory of city temples. By noon, according to the Ministry of Emergencies, more than 35 thousand people dived into the ice hole. As Petersburgers plunged into ice water next to the Peter and Paul Fortress, in the Park of Internationalists, Lake Suzdal, on Petrograd and Kronstadt - in a selection of photos from Instagram.