18 Facts About St Petersburg

1. The St Petersburg-based commercial furniture dealer is moving into a 3,000-square-foot space on the ground level of the 16-story.

2. The City of St Petersburg has started actively soliciting business owner feedback with a short, three-question survey intended for business owners only.

3. Saint St Petersburg is located at the base of the Tampa Bay peninsula in Pinellas County, Florida, and enjoys a more subdued social atmosphere than its larger cousin, Tampa.

4. Saint St Petersburg is home to numerous parks and gardens, some of the most famous of which are situated in the southern suburbs, including one of the largest English gardens in Europe in Pavlovsk.

5. Saint St Petersburg is served by Pulkovo International Airport, and by three smaller commercial and cargo airports in the suburbs.

6. Saint St Petersburg is an important transport corridor linking Scandinavia to Russia and Eastern Europe.

7. Saint St Petersburg has an extensive city-funded network of public transport and several hundred routes served by marshrutkas.

8. Saint St Petersburg has a longstanding and world famous tradition in literature.

9. Saint St Petersburg has been home to the newest movements in popular music in the country.

10. Saint St Petersburg is home to more than two hundred museums, many of them hosted in historic buildings.

11. Saint St Petersburg is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list as an area with 36 historical architectural complexes and around 4000 outstanding individual monuments of architecture, history and culture.

12. Saint St Petersburg has the second largest construction industry in Russia, including commercial, housing and road construction.

13. Saint St Petersburg is the location of a significant brewery and distillery industry.

14. Saint St Petersburg is the unofficial but de facto administrative centre of Leningrad Oblast, and of the Northwestern Federal District.

15. Saint St Petersburg is a federal subject of Russia.

16. Saint St Petersburg surpassed Moscow in population and industrial growth; it developed as one of the largest industrial cities in Europe, with a major naval base, river and sea port.

17. Saint St Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.

18. Saint St Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital.