In early March, winter came to Petersburg. The roads are littered with snow, drivers are in traffic jams all day. Due to the strong wind in the city, a yellow level of danger has been declared . How Petersburg is experiencing March snowfalls - watch the video “Paper” . About the five main reasons why this winter was drowned in snowdrifts, read in the material “Paper” “ What is wrong with snow cleaning in St. Petersburg? ".

On Tuesday, March 5, in the St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held a farewell ceremony with an academician, a Nobelovsky Physics Laureate Zhores Alferov. Farewell to Zhores Ivanovich Alferov. Bright and eternal memory. pic.twitter.com/uj58J5HPBL - Prospector (@iuxtkm0oop0oyi3) March 5, 2019 In St. Petersburg, farewell with Zhores Alferov is taking place.

Smolny did not agree on the rally of the Libertarian Party against Runet isolation. This was reported by Fontanka with reference to party representatives. The event was planned to be held on March 10 on Lenin Square. According to the United press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg, the Smolninsky court examined the lawsuit of the party activists on the recognition of illegal decision to refuse to conduct a rally. The event was refused by the Committee on Law, Law and Order and Security.

Over the past day, 21 people were hospitalized in St. Petersburg due to injuries received when falling on ice. It is reported by Interfax. All victims were hospitalized in the Mariinsky hospital. According to the source of the agency in medical circles, there are no longer enough beds for hospitalization in the trauma department of the hospital. Because of this, patients are placed in other departments, which is why the victims are late for medical care.

On Tuesday morning, March 5, flights from Perm and Krasnoyarsk could not land on the first attempt at the St. Petersburg airport of Pulkovo because of heavy snowfall and went to the reserve airfield to Moscow . According to the Airport online score, flight No. 6582 from Perm was supposed to fly to St. Petersburg at 05:50, flight No. 6574 from Krasnoyarsk was supposed to land in Pulkovo at 06:55. As a result, they arrived in St. Petersburg with a delay of about three hours each.

How to find cheap tickets from St. Petersburg and why do flights are getting more expensive? Since December 2018, flights in Russia, according to various sources, have risen in price by an average of 5–33 %. In some areas - by 70–80 %. In addition, it has become more difficult to fly from St. Petersburg abroad due to the closure of the international flights of the Victory Lawkoster.

The Investigative Committee on St. Petersburg did not find extremism in the speech of the writer Dmitry Bykov on “amateurish readings”, which were held at the end of December 2018, and did not initiate a criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This is stated in the response of the department to the human rights center "Rod", which provides legal support to the right activists.

On Tuesday night, March 5, heavy snowfall passed in St. Petersburg. During the day, wind increased up to 16 m/s, still plentiful precipitation in the form of wet snow, in some places a blizzard, according to the Ministry of Emergencies. Also, the Ministry of Emergencies warn that due to weather conditions on the roads, ice and snow rolling is possible.

The Center for Parking Management of St. Petersburg announced a competition for the design of bicycle routes in the Kirov and Krasnogvardeisky districts. It is reported by Corta. Six parks will have to connect new routes. The first bike path will pass from the Vorontsovsky square through the park Alexandrino and Polezhaevsky Park to Sosnovova Polyana. The second route will be connected by Ladoga Park with the Malinovka Park.

The construction of the Lakhta Center was engaged in more than 20 thousand people from 18 countries. By March 8, “Paper” spoke with three women who participated in the construction of a skyscraper and buildings around it. They tell how to work on the project of the highest building of St. Petersburg and whether they came across stereotypes that construction is not women's work.

In December 2018, the Krasnodar court decided to block the four clips of Rapper Husky: “The Poem of the Motherland”, “Bullet-Duru”, “Piruman 17” and “Judas”. According to the telegram channel "Human Rights Cards", this became known today during a meeting of the Tagan court of Moscow . At the meeting on March 5, they began to consider the lawsuit of Husky against Roskomnadzor due to the blocking of the “Judas” clip.

The construction of the Lakhta Center was engaged in more than 20 thousand people from 18 countries. By March 8, “Paper” spoke with three women who participated in the construction of a skyscraper and buildings around it: a designer, the head of the labor protection department and the director of development.

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on the ban on the placement of hotels and hostels in residential premises. The authors of the document in explanations to the bill indicated that the owners of the premises could dispose of the housing at their discretion, but the sanitary standards and fire safety requirements entail restrictions.

After breaking through the pipe with boiling water, which occurred on March 4 on the Brothers Radchenko Street in Kolpina, the nearby 277 buildings were left without heating. This was reported by the heating equipment and the head of the Kolpino district Anatoly Veliy. Welding work on the site was planned to be finished by the morning of March 5, however, as the head of the district stated, they will linger until 20:00 due to water entering the trunk.

Russian sculptor Sergei Gapanovich founded the project "Valley Zaitsev" in Karelia. From May 1, 2018, he cuts out the silhouettes of hares on a rock located near Petrozavodsk. In total, the artist plans to carve a figure of thousands of hares while he made 300 pieces. Anyone can buy hares under a specific number. The cost is 3,000 rubles. According to representatives of the project, all funds go to pay carriers and equipment.