On the October Embankment, 102 in St. Petersburg is a workshop for the processing of rubber. This was reported to the "Paper" in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to preliminary information, the area of ​​fire is 200 square meters. Firefighters work on the spot, they extinguish the area at an increased level of complexity. At the moment, the victims are unknown. Photo: Denis Ananchenko Update from 15:10 The fire is localized, the Ministry of Emergencies reported.

On Saturday, February 8, on the Bolshoi Prospekt of the Petrograd side, 57 will open the first store of the Parisian brand Sandro Paris. This was reported by the company's representatives. As they say in Sandro, only female clothing models will be presented in the store. Goods from the new brand collections on average cost from 8 thousand (for t -shirts and tops) to 40 thousand rubles (for dresses and jackets). In the St.

Petersburg artist Darina Biryulina created a map of St. Petersburg, which marks free educational and creative courses of the city. She told about this on her page on VKontakte. According to the artist, she collected both private initiatives and budget buildings of creativity. For example, the map marks free lectures in the arena, meetings at the Finnish Institute and even knitting courses, landscape design, felting from wool and sailing. You can see and download the full card here .

At the end of January, an unusual ice formed on the Griboedov channel, the Moika River and other city reservoirs, which the townspeople reminded the townspeople at the same time as a blanket, and whipped cream, and a semolina with lumps, and the paintings of Van Gogh. This is an icy fat - a thick layer of small ice crystals on the surface of the water. "Paper" collected photos of St. Petersburg rivers from social networks.

The resulting image shows a sample of turbulent, “boiling” gas that covers the whole sun. Photo: NSO/Aura/NSF The American ground solar telescope took the most detailed pictures of the surface of the Sun in history. For the first time, objects of up to 30 kilometers are visible to them. Scientists are sure that the pictures obtained will help them advance in understanding and forecasting the activity of the star.

The St. Petersburg artist Yevgeny Zubkov, known for the MXD project , said that the first channel used his pilotering, that is, the unique letters created by him, to announce his new series. He reported this on VKontakte. According to Zubkov, some letters were copied completely, while others were “ineptly collected from their elements.” “I am normally related to copying for self -learning, or with a complete rethinking of the source material.

In the house of Muruzi on Litein Prospekt, 24, the private museum of Joseph Brodsky was opened - with a room where the poet lived, a lecturer and his own library. Now there are closed excursions for mini-groups, but in May it will begin to receive visitors daily. One of the project curators and the editor of the Brodsky.online portal Pavel Kotlyar told Paper , why in St. Petersburg for more than 20 years they could not open the Brodsky Museum and what a new space will be.

The ferry "Princess Anastasia", who canceled in November cruises due to repairs, will return to work on March 21. This was written by Fontanka with reference to the operator Moby SPL. According to the director of the company Sergey Kotenev, in 2020 new directions will appear-in particular, the ferry will go to Riga for May holidays and to Tallinn on June 11–13. In addition, according to Kotenev, in the Baltic in 2021, the second vessel - Moby Dada (previously Princess Maria) may appear.

Delivery Club launched in St. Petersburg the quick delivery of products and goods of everyday demand. This was reported to the company . You can order products in the application in the same way as food from restaurants - if the user is in the delivery zone, then a special section opens for him. Delivery time is 15-30 minutes. It is free, but there is no minimum order amount. Now delivery is already available in Frunze, Primorsky, Central, Admiralty and Petrograd districts.

The World Health Organization recognized the international emergency for the spread of a new type of coronavirus in China. This was reported on Twitter of the organization. “We do not know what damage this virus will cause if it spreads in the country with a weak healthcare system. We must help these states prepare for such an opportunity.

St. Petersburg investigators aroused against two natives of Kyrgyzstan, detained for Putin portraits with threats hung in the city center, a criminal case of public calls for terrorist activities (part 1 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the United press service of the city courts.

By January 30, employees of the EC Center detained all nine participants in the attack on a passerby on a stable square in the center of St. Petersburg. Eight of them are minors. About this writes Fontanka. According to the publication , in the center of the “E”, the fight participants are associated with the organization of FIRSTLINE NEVOGRAD, to which they previously ranked for attacks on migrants, anti -fascists and LGBT.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order to close the Russian border in the Far East to combat coronavirus. TASS writes about this with reference to the prime minister’s statement. “ Today the corresponding order was signed, it went to work.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested for two months five former police officers accused of exceeding the official powers and falsification of evidence in the case of Ivan Golunov.

The large -scale reconstruction of the building of the Center for Contemporary Art of the Name of Sergei Kurekhin on the Middle Avenue of the Vasilyevsky Island, 93 will end in 2021, five years after the start of work. In the same year they plan to put it into operation. This was stated in the administration of St. Petersburg.