At the end of June, Petersburgers proposed to create an expert council for preserving the street art in the city and sent the appropriate appeal to Smolny. Under the letter, artists Vladimir Abikh, Vlad Milkina, Diana Meyerhold, Anastasia Vladychkina from the Yavle art group, as well as some deputies , signed. The initiator was the Research Center "Collective Action".

Gate for gates in fortresses and other fortifications Sosnovy Bor is a city 100 kilometers from the center of St. Petersburg, known primarily thanks to the Leningrad nuclear power plant (LAES). In addition to the city -forming enterprise in the pine forest, there are other attractions: from the only museum of contemporary art in the Leningrad region to the constructivist Orthodox church. In a cycle of guides on the suburbs of St. Petersburg, “Paper” talks about directions for a trip for one day.

Before the start of the school year, teachers of the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences (Smolny College) were reduced at St. Petersburg State University. The university did not extend the contract with two of the five leaders of the Sociology and Anthropology program - Zhanna Chernova and Viktor Kaplun. They learned about this only on the 20th of August. The university did not explain the reason for the reduction and do not respond to the appeals of teachers and students.

"North. Realia" released an interview with the mother of a conscript who was missing in Ukraine. Irina Chistyakova from Petrozavodsk for six months is looking for a 20-year-old son Cyril, who served in a meadow in military unit 29,760 and who was sent to Ukraine on February 24. The last time Cyril's colleagues saw him alive in early March. The woman visited Donetsk, Mariupol and the military unit in Rostov-on-Don, where the bodies of the dead are brought, but has not yet found her son.

The Transport Committee issued an application for additional financing from the budget, Fontanka reports with reference to the document. This document also spells out how the fare in public transport can change. The amount was calculated by carriers, starting from the letter of the transport committee indicating the size of subsidies to these enterprises.

On the website of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, online collection of candidates for the public headquarters for renovation began. On the voting page there are 12 districts of the city, in which there are panel Khrushchevs. By click on the name of the district, a list of candidates for the headquarters is opened. Most of the candidates (49) in the Moscow district, the least in Kolpinsky (two).

Photo on the cover: Dave_S. (CC-by 2.0) Some Russian tourists talk about problems on the border with Finland: there are cases when border guards canceled one-time visas due to trips with transit and seized cash euros. In practice, such cases are single. But the Finnish authorities confirm that border guards have the right to such actions.