Beautiful routes for walks in winter St. Petersburg

You can walk from the Chernaya Rechka metro station along the quiet Savushkina Street to Lipovaya Alley to the Central Park of Culture and Leisure on Elagin Island. On the bank of the Bolshaya Nevka, the building of the Gunzechoinei Buddhist datsan is available for inspection. Elagin Island is an inexhaustible source of winter entertainment and small discoveries for young Petersburgers.


For those who prefer uncrowded park areas - from the metro station "Chernaya Rechka" (from Torzhkovskaya St.) by bus 33 in 20 minutes to Lyubashinsky Garden (stop pr. Metallistov), ​​from here along ul. Zamshina decorated with tall larches walk to the Academician Sakharov Park, and then to Bestuzhevsky Garden. In the cozy building of Filmofond on Piskarevsky 32 they show films at an extremely low price. A ticket for a daytime session here costs from 100 rubles. It makes sense to try delicious pies with the money saved in "Lavka Pekarya" on Piskarevsky 40.

From the station "Polytechnic Institute" towards Piskarevsky Park there is a green area with a predominance of coniferous trees, with university buildings in the academic style. Children will be happy to meet live squirrels here, adults will not be out of place to buy rare editions of long-out-of-print books in the second-hand bookstore on the way to the station "Akademicheskaya". In the park behind ul.Gidrotekhniki immediately after exiting the subway it is worth seeing a rare monument to the hero of the civil war and folk oral creativity V.I.Chapaev.

The most unusual monument to V. I. Lenin , one of the first to be erected "by grateful workers", is located on 51 Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue - the low monument points its hand not in the traditional direction - up and forward, but, on the contrary, somewhere back and down. When going to the Krupskaya Palace of Culture fair for books, it is worth taking a tram from the Alexander Nevsky Lavra to Ilyich or walking through the Metropolitan Garden, through the park along the bank of the Neva behind the Zelenetsky Monastery courtyard, from where a picturesque view of the main river of St. Petersburg, not constrained by parapets, opens up.