Dacha Benois in Peterhof Old dacha in Vyritsa House in the village of Mikli Since May 2020, the chief editor of the Papers Alexander Shargorodskaya has been conducting the Blog “ Rural Aristocrat ”, in which he talks about old dachas and abandoned estates near St. Petersburg. On the blog you can find posts about wooden houses with platbands in the village of Lapomovo, as well as information about Benois's dacha in Peterhof, which is often called “House with Ghosts” on Instagram.

In St. Petersburg on the afternoon of October 18, cooling is expected. The air temperature will be up to plus 5 degrees, according to the website of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “North-Western Directorate for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring”. In the afternoon, small precipitation is expected, mainly in the form of rain.

In Russia, 15,099 new cases of infection with coronavirus were revealed per day, of which 674 were reported in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the operative to combat the spread of infection. In total, 24,187 people died in the country from the beginning of the pandemic, in the last day only 185 lethal cases have been recorded. 1 070 576 people recovered during this period, 5377 patients in Russia are discharged from hospitals over the past day.

In St. Petersburg, after a long illness, the famous pilot Alexander Poddubny died. This was reported by his acquaintances on VKontakte. Poddubny dedicated to aviation 50 years of life, was the owner of a rare IL-14P aircraft ( there are only three aircraft of this model that could climb into the air). “Paper” told in detail how the man found a plane based on Ulan-Ude, and later transported it to Petersburg.

The Petersburger in social networks spoke about the rigid detention of a passenger without personal protective equipment at the Bogovaya metro station, which occurred on October 17. A video with an incident is published on Instagram. According to an eyewitness, the young man asked the metro employees whether he could go to the station without a protective mask, arguing that he was an asthmatic.

On the afternoon of October 18, the consulate of Azerbaijan on the 2nd Sovetskaya Street in St. Petersburg organized an action in memory of those who died in Ganja-this is the second largest city in Azerbaijan, which was undergoing a missile shelling the day before. Flowers, toys and posters brought to the building. According to Fontanka, about 60 people gathered there, police officers were on duty nearby, there were no detentions. The consulate of Azerbaijan in St.

Granite columns of the 19th century, which were found in the Vyborg Gulf, were delivered to the branch of the Hermitage in Vyborg. This was announced by the chairman of the Committee on Culture of the Leningrad Region Vladimir Tsoi. “A difficult operation on the study, raising and moving of granite 45-ton columns took in total for more than two months,” Tsoi said. Now objects will be shown at the museum.

In St. Petersburg, from October 15 to 18, the International Festival of Public Arts Art Prospekt was held . “Paper” shows what could be seen during the event - from the artist’s performance in a mushroom costume on the balcony on the Basilievsky Island to work with augmented reality in the Gaza Palace of Culture.

In St. Petersburg, at the 59th year of his life, the head of Yalta Ivan Impront died. It is reported by TASS. At the end of September, Immigront was hospitalized with pneumonia, he was treated in one of the St. Petersburg clinics, but which one was not specified. A source of Interfax said that the man was identified by the Covid-19, this was not officially reported. Immgrunt served as head of the Yalta administration since November 2019.

From October 24, the Russia Airlines will operate flights from St. Petersburg to Geneva and back on a regular schedule. This was reported to the "Paper" in the press service of the carrier. Airbus A320 plane with a capacity of 168 passengers will fly on Saturdays. At the time of publication, news on the official website costs from 12,524 rubles one way.