On the morning of February 23, there was a bright red, scarlet dawn in St. Petersburg. Many met him on the way to work, he woke up some. An unusual dawn was also noticed in the Leningrad region and on the Gulf of Finland. "Paper" collected ten photographs of the phenomenon. The Petersburgers for the third day in a row complain about the poor cleaning of the city: sidewalks and roads are littered with snow, cars cannot leave the yards. Earlier it was reported that by February 24 in St.

Petersburgers noticed that a copy of the sculpture “Girl with the oar” disappeared from the nameless island at Malaya Nevka. This was reported in a closed group of residents of the Petrograd side in Facebook "Petrograd Diaspora". In the English rowing club, which installed a copy of the sculpture, they told the “paper” that they sent her for a month to restore.

In St. Petersburg, the first criminal case in Russia on the spread of false information about coronavirus was terminated in Russia. This was reported to the “paper” by a local activist and a defendant of the case, who received the status of a witness, Anna Shushpanova. According to Shushpanova, the case was terminated on December 30, but law enforcement agencies were not informed about this.

On Tuesday, February 23, in St. Petersburg they again expect heavy snowfall - the fourth day in a row. Forecasters predict an increase in snow cover to 50 centimeters: the last time this was observed in February 2011. At the same time in the city it will get warmer . Officials report on active cleaning of the streets.

During the week, the number of hospitalizations with coronavirus and pneumonia increased by 7.6 %. This is stated in the Smolny information certificate to counteract the epidemic. According to the City Coordination Council, from February 15 to 22, the hospitalization indicator in St. Petersburg increased for the first time after six weeks of decline. On weekdays, according to the schedule, on average 400 people were hospitalized-in the previous week this indicator was in the region of 350.

Visitors were evacuated from the MEGA Dybenko shopping center On the afternoon of February 23, visitors were evacuated from Mega Dybenko’s shopping center. This was reported by eyewitnesses in social networks. According to the loudspeaker, visitors were asked to leave the shopping center "for technical reasons." Fontanka, citing eyewitnesses, reports that, probably, smoke occurred in the shopping center.

For the entire period of vaccination in St. Petersburg, 215 thousand people were primary from coronavirus, 64 thousand took a full cycle of vaccination. This is stated in the Smolny information certificate to counteract the epidemic. The authorities said that more than 7 million people actually live in the city. Thus, by February 23, 2021, a little more than 3 % of the real population of the city was primary in the city, and only 0.92 % of the real population passed the full cycle .

From Saturday to Monday in St. Petersburg, two -thirds of the February rainfall fell. This was announced by the Fobos Center Mikhail Leus. According to Leus, since the beginning of February, 44.3 millimeters of precipitation fell in St. Petersburg, that is, 143 % of the monthly norm. Over the past three days, February 20–22, intensive snowfalls brought 20.8 millimeters of precipitation, that is, 67 % of the monthly norm.

Sniffferson family jewelry workshop accused of 585 jewelry stores of jewelry with seals. This was told in the group Snifferson in VKontakte. In the group, Sniffferson published photos of earrings and suspension with the image of seals that the family workshop created four years ago. And they asked to compare them with earrings and suspensions, the release of which announced the 585 network.

On the afternoon of February 23, an inconsistent action of the Communist Party of the Communist Party was held in St. Petersburg in honor of the Day of the Soviet Army. This was reported by the local branch of the party. About 100 people gathered for the shares, some came with posters “all power to the working people”, newspapers with Lenin, as well as the flags of the Communist Party.