The Gamma festival will be held in September. He was previously postponed due to coronavirus The Petersburg Festival of Media Arts Gamma will be held on September 5-6. This was reported on the website of the organizers. The Gamma festival will be offline, the program will be announced in the near future. The organizers note that due to measures to combat coronavirus, the number of guests will be limited. Initially, the festival was supposed to be held in July. He was moved due to pandemia.

From a pre -trial detention center in the Belarusian city of Grodno, in the evening of August 17, the Petersburger Alexei Abramov was released, detained by the police on suspicion of organizing riots. This was reported by his friend Daria Zmitrovich. The new newspaper paid attention to this . According to Zmitrovich, Abramov was detained on August 11 - the girl learned about this from his cellmates, who wrote to her on social networks after liberation.

On the evening of August 16, on the embankment of the Fontanka River, the car sharing driver crashed into a fence standing above a tourist river tram. Eyewitnesses reported this in social networks. The accident occurred at the house number 71. Eyewitnesses note that a crowd of people gathered on a boat. As a result of the incident, the cabinet and two lattices were thrown out onto the pier. According to 78.ru, no one was injured.

In the Berthold Center, the Portuguese coffee shop BICA closed on Civil Street. Information about this appeared on the page of the establishment on VKontakte. The coffee shop worked in St. Petersburg for three years and closed on August 16. Portuguese sweets and coffee were served there . The owners of the institution reported that the closure of the BICA is associated with the pandemia of the coronavirus. For six months, 80 stores and institutions closed on the main trading streets of St.

The governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov instructed to include two fountains in the Rumyantsevsky garden on the Vasilievsky Island in the program of restoration and reconstruction of the out of turn. This was reported on the Smolny website. According to Beglov, fountains in the Rumyantsevsky garden require urgent recovery, since "they are in a significant place, and that one of them does not work is unacceptable." The reconstruction date is unknown.

The working group at KGIOP approved a new concept of reconstruction of the Basevich house on Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street. This was reported to the KGIOP press service. The new concept involves the preservation of 1-5 floors of the facial outbuilding and the reconstruction of the emergency sixth floor and attic, as well as the restoration of the configuration of courtyard corps.

Petersburger Ekaterina Zhivatskaya leads the public “ Hike Russia ”, which talks about ecotrops of the Leningrad Region and Russia. She offers to go to the “Cancer Lakes” reserve with ornithological towers to observe birds, as well as to the N.K. Roerich museum near Volosov, where in addition to nature you can inspect the estate. Each post contains information about the length and complexity of the route, a map, a detailed description and several photos.

On the morning of August 15, on the embankment of the Obvodny Canal, the driver of the BMW car ran to the traffic police inspector, dragged him about 700 meters on the asphalt and disappeared. This "paper" was told in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At about 5:30, the DPS outfit stopped the BMW car, suspected that he had archival numbers. When the police checked the documents, one of the detainees got on a driver's seat and started the car.

In the new academic year, teachers of Russian schools will be required to wear masks. This was reported by TASS with reference to the hotline of the Ministry of Education. According to the agency, the measure is introduced for the prevention of coronavirus. At the same time, children will not be obliged to put on masks: they will be able to wear them if parents insist on this. The academic year in schools and kindergartens of Russia starts on September 1 in full -time format.

By August 17, Russia revealed the lowest daily increase in coronavirus in recent months. At the same time, there are more new cases in statistics than recovered. It is reported by the operaste. Per day in Russia, 4892 new sick, 3133 recovery and 55 deaths were identified. Of these, 159 cases of disease, 69 recovered and two dead are registered in St. Petersburg. The number of coronavirus is currently in Russia - 175 904, in St. Petersburg - 7287. The number of active cases is growing.

At the Mariinsky Theater, about 30 artists confirmed Koronavirus. This was stated by the head of the department of epidemiological supervision of the St. Petersburg Department of Rospotrebnadzor Irina Chingeria, writes Interfax. According to Chingeria, most of the sick are artists of the ballet troupe. Three artists are hospitalized, the rest are treated at home, since most of the disease proceeds in a mild form, she noted.

Since August 9, mass protests against the presidency of Alexander Lukashenko have been held in Belarus - all this time in different cities of the world there are shares of solidarity. The Russians are especially careful in the situation in Belarus, in particular, Petersburgers. Citizens gather at the representative office of the Embassy of the Republic, carry flowers and posters, sing folk songs and Tsoi. Street artists devote their works to protesters.

Residents of villages in the Priozersky district all summer complain about the noise from the new racing complex "Igor Drev", where the first competitions were held in July. People say that they cannot sleep because of the “permanent hum”, and write appeals to the district administration and the prosecutor's office. Rospotrebnadzor is going to conduct an unscheduled audit.

The Vasileostrovsky court of St. Petersburg fined the Pokrovsk hospital for 120 thousand rubles for the distribution of Covid-19 among personnel and patients. This was written by Fontanka with reference to the combined press service of the courts. The leadership of the Pokrovsky hospital was found guilty of violating the anti -epidemic regime and untimely reporting to Rospotrebnadzor about new cases of coronavirus infection.

At the intersection of Lermontovsky Prospekt and the 10th Krasnoarmeyskaya street on the morning of August 17, an accident occurred with the participation of three cars. Three people were injured, the press service of the traffic police in St. Petersburg was told by the Paper . The accident occurred at about 11:00.