Photo: The press service of the Hermitage On May 22, the exhibition “ Landskron, Nienshants, St. Petersburg: archaeological discoveries at the Okhtinsky Cape ” was opened in the Minezh Minja Hermitage. 167 objects found in this area were presented to visitors: arrows and fragments of barrels from the fortress of Landskron, plates and furnace tiles from the Niennshants fortress, as well as later objects, such as the ceramic figures of soldiers created at the turn of the XVIII - XIX centuries.

On May 25, Gazprom introduced the concept of Lakhta Center 2, a new skyscraper that can become one of the highest in the world. They plan to place 150 floors with green spaces and a viewing platform at a record altitude of 590 meters there. At the same time, the exact place of construction and the deadlines are not called. Some approve of the Gazprom project, but at the same time, it caused a sharp criticism among city -defenders and part of the townspeople.

On Sunday, May 30, in St. Petersburg, the neighboring festival “Tom Sawyer Day” will be held. This was reported by the organizers on the Facebook event page. The guests of the festival will paint different animals on the children's sites of the city, communicate, treat each other with food and watch various performances. The sites are located in Vasileostrovsky, Petrograd, Admiralty and Krasnozardei districts.

In the evening of May 25, several ruffers climbed onto the dome of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Ruferov published a video from eyewitnesses and themselves 78.ru. Young people climbed the cathedral without insurance. They photographed the sunset. “Paper” told how the ruffers climb into the skyscrapers of New York, why they do not lead excursions and what roofs in St. Petersburg love most of all.

In school No. 428, built by the company "Glavstroy St. Petersburg", the Center for Education of Children and Adolescents of Digital Disciplines "Technospace" has been operating for almost a year. 500 students of the school got acquainted with the work of the center, and 70 went through a full training program. After removing coronavirus restrictions, this number is planned to increase three times, making classes available to students from other schools.

The State Duma in the third and final reading adopted a law according to which people involved in the activities of extremist and terrorist organizations will not be able to be elected to elected authorities, the parliamentary press service reports . It is forbidden to participate in the elections to those who led, consisted or financed organizations that the court recognized as extremist.

Ozon in 2021 will launch an express food service with food and non-food products in St. Petersburg. It is reported by Kommersant with reference to the representative of the online retailer. The service will be called Ozon Express. According to the sources of Kommersant, the company is already looking for warehouses for development and agrees on cooperation with local suppliers. Earlier, Ozon Express worked only in Moscow and the Moscow Region with an assortment of 20 thousand items.

Goethe-Institute and Paper are launching the "Extension"-the special season of the SCIENCE BAR Hopping podcast, entirely dedicated to the ecology and climate. In it we discuss what will happen to our planet. How do we influence the climate, and the climate - on us? Do we eat environmentally friendly? What is Greta Tunberg and other climatic activists fighting for? Scientists and experts from Russia, Germany and other countries will tell about this.

The layout of the Buran space shuttle, located in the Baikonur installation complex, was painted by street artists. One of them spoke about this on Instagram, but later deleted the post. According to 78.ru and znak.com , it was a St. Petersburg graffitist with the nickname Burda.dobro , a participant in the Dobrocrew team. Judging by the photographs from Instagram, which managed to disperse on social networks, the inscriptions “Good” and “Yura, we arrived!” Appeared on the ship!

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg will consider the prosecutor’s claim with a request to ban in Russia specific links to the Facebook page of the Russian LGBT network human rights organization. This was reported by the United press service of the city ships. The prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit following the audit conducted due to the appeal of the State Duma deputy from United Russia Igor Sapko.

The Legislative Assembly awarded the title of “Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg” by People's Artist Boris Eifman and Honored Doctor Peter Yablonsky. This was reported by the press service of the city parliament. The meeting was held closed. Boris Eifman is the artistic director of the Boris Eifman Academic Ballet Theater. Peter Yablonsky-Director of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Phthysiopulmonology. The distinction ceremony will be held on the City Day, May 27.

On Wednesday, it rains in St. Petersburg, the air temperature decreased to +10 degrees, and gusts of wind reach 18 meters per second. As the weather forecaster of the Fobos Center Mikhail Leus notes , the weather is affected by the cyclonic whirlwind, named in Germany “Nathan”.

In St. Petersburg, the department of the Foundation "Attention" Ilya Varlamov and Maxim Katz has been operating for three years. Activists are engaged in the preservation of Soviet signs, help put in order ceremonial and restore historical doors. Among their objects are the house of Stanovy on Metninskaya Street, the house of Erlich and Ettinger on Bolsrinskaya and the Baku House on Kirochny. “Paper” spoke with the manager of the St.

A criminal case was opened in the GSU of the IC of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg against a company that provides a short-term rental of electric scooters, the press service of the department reports on May 26. According to investigators, the company from May 13 to 14 “from selfish motives, neglecting the safety of other participants in the movement” to rent electric scooters to two people aged 20 and 21. Subsequently, one of them, moving at considerable speed, hit a person.

On Sunday, May 30, the Scientific Festival of Science Bar Hopping will be held in St. Petersburg bars, which this time is devoted to the evolution of scientific knowledge. The event is organized by the Fund of Infrastructure and Educational Programs (Rusnano group) and Paper . The festival program is already ready. In 16 bars in the city center and Sevkabel Porto there will be 32 lectures from scientists-this will be the first for a year and a half Science Bar Hopping in offline mode.