St. Petersburg from a Helicopter
Those are the aerial views of what some say to be the most architecturally brilliant city of Russia, the ex-capital, St. Petersburg.
via ecam at leprosorium.ru
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first, i’m the best
Wow! S:t Petersburg is a beautiful city. I am living in Sweden - have to find a cheap trip to go see it live
Yeah. You must visit there. I’m finnish myself, and all my trips there have been worth it. The sheer grandeur of the Neva river strikes me every time. I think the cheapest way is to take a ship, a bus or a train from Helsinki. (as ferries from Sweden to Finland pay next to nothing)
Take a ferry to Helsinki/Turku + bus/train to St.Petersburg. Will take you over a day though.
very nice
They copy arcitechture and buildings from USA
It could be true (though it is unlikely) for some newer buildings, but the majority of buildings shown on these pictures were built before USA even existed.
First towns in USA are dated 1600. St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Architects who built most of the historic buildings were Italians.
Towns are not cities, there was almost no architecture in the early towns in America. And there is nothing wrong with using italian architects.
Peter is ther city Brother 1 was filmed at. Good Movie!
They used Degos to design their buildings?
OH NO!
Russia has cool castles and midevil architecture.
We have stupid pueblos and mounds.
Since when USA is 400 years old??? And why would it matter where the architect is from if the building is in Russia? They sure didn’t bring it whole from overseas like statue of Liberty?
Yes, when the American cavalry galloped across the Atlantic ocean to win the Great Northern War with Sweden, they built St. Petersburgh, sure. Just as they did defeat the Napoleon a century later. Hell, Americans defeated the Romans, didn’t you know?
Everyone owes EVERYTHING to America, everyone copies America, sure. The very beginning of civilization started in America. Yeah, the universe revolves around it.
What a dumb fuck, this subu character is.
hahahah LOL!
Show me such palaces, churchs, Fortresses in US.
You are stupid american idiot.
When it’s all builded, the world haven’t USA, world have only far England colony!
You are all fools and idiots, who said that “subu” is american, he might as well be Russian trying to make you mad at america. FOOLS!
Let the people talk,man.
shurely “Let my people go?”
oops, wrong movie
In the 1770’s a bunch of American farmers with ancient muskets & some native Indians with bows & arrows & hatchets kicked the asses of the world’s largest & MOST PWERFUL Empire! It musta’ been those RED unifirms, eh? They made a easy target.
…and BTW, We have NEVER lost a war since…& if the USA wasn’t UNSELFISH EVERYONE in Europe & russia would be speaking GERMAN today!!
We lost 10,000’s for another continent’s cause! On the other hand, russian Czars, and now feeble-minded & idiot selfish, power-hungry pricks OPPRESS their own people WHO NOW criticize America! …why? For cleaning-up Chernobyl, repairing & saving the antiquated Russion space-station, & lending Billions of $$$$$’s to the last 3 russian Presidents to FEED the very people they had failed!!
…funny?
You like to wear OUR clothes, look like us, eat our food, listen to our music,and your own women LOVE American men, and hate ‘alcoholic’, lazy, impotent russian men….that’s what they tell me ALL the time in Boston, and to their new American husbands, too!
…hehehe.
Now Putin wants to go Commie again! Ha-ha-ha.
Fuckin’ idiots! Name ONE automobile, engineering feat, or Russian idea that is famous? …i can think of ONE: Vodka & our Viagra! (..sorry, that was two, Comrade, you idiot!)
…gotta go, i’ve got a date with your EX-wife, Vladdy!!
…hehe.
Ok first of all it was the Russian army that defeated and took over Berlin which ended World War II (Germany was the main, mastermind, you can call it behind WWII and Japan was an ally), all the Americans did was defeat the Japanese (the Americans were mainly fighting with the Japanese as it is them who attacked Pearl Harbor). Chernobyl was an accident which at the time could have happened to any nuclear facility on the world (modern technology makes this more unlikely to happen again). Then, the people are no longer oppressed (not sure what the last newspaper you read or the last news you watched, but Soviet Russia does no longer exist). About the clothes, well, make up another genera of clothing if you can. There is traditional clothing but the Western style is considered modern. One automobile - Lada, formerly exported to Brazil because it was cheap, and still famous in Russia to this day to the middle class, while the rich drive European cars (not so many American Fords and the name Chevy is virtually inexistent). As for engeneering feats, well, if you can’t name one then you are a dumbass. Red Square is one off the top of my head and then they are also building some sky-skrapers in Moscow which will be the tallest in Europe and one tower in particular which will be the second tallest upon completion (if you don’t call that an engeneering feat, you are a dumbass). As for the women, well, some Russian people have left the country for better economic opportunities (who doesn’t search for that) and quite a lot of people from the former Soviet states are now migrating to Russia for the better life.
So basically, I have one thing to say. Jack, you are a dumbass.
Never lost a war… Forgot Vietnam?
Jack,
Your insult is noted. I want to meet your big mouth in Boston (or any other place in MA). Call me 6175360666. For now I’ll track you on the web.
Bizon
Pretty much a BS comment. You some sort of ignorant ugly American 16 year old? Most of old St. Petersburg was designed/built on Western European styles, principally Italian (imported architects). But even the new and proposed ’sky-scrapers’ are wildly non-USA. (This from Texas)
Way to feed the troll, guys.
you r stupid asshole! st. petersburg is older than all your history=)))))))))
Oh yes,Sankt Pertersburg is a copy of the glorious cities of USA,of course,you’ right.And the Captain America have defeated the evil Doctor Red Brain in the Winter Palace(which one is an exactly copy of the (American)White House,made by Italian archtets which don’t know how to make Russian buildings;this is why I love Peter The Great: he saw that Russia sucks and try to make the country more civilized,copying the American way of life)
you are idiot! Almost all architecture in St. Petersburg of esch from times of his foundation from the beginning of a 18 age, in America of esch none normal building it was not built!!!
Питер - самий красивий город в мире!
In the 8th and 55th I can see a house where I used to live.
But I think at least 22nd pic looks different now a days as they have destroyed the old Kirov-stadium allready some time ago. Still this city is so magnificiant! Gosh, I guess I have start applying for a visa to get there.
What a sparkling city!
Indeed, it is.
The only city in Russia that really matters, architecturally speaking. Italians and French architects mostly. One can still see it used to be a cultural center of Europe back in the days, with Prague and Vienna and Paris..
Compared to Moscow, this is a majestic city, it radiates style, whereas Moscow gets more and more cramped and crowded, all the green is disappearing there to make room for ugly pretentious apartment buildings.
Seeing these pictures, everybody should be glad the plan for building this ridiculous GazProm building [a glass dildo] in the middle of the historic center has been dropped..
LOL. That’s a very colorful description of the GazProm project.
Such a fine city , too bad its populated by poor russians and turned it into the most violent, racist and crime ridden city in europe. Sad isnt it?
its just sad how some people never give up on their own foolishness…
for once.. just stop and admire the bueaty.. leave your hatemongering for political debate forums…
Don’t feed the troll
(or bot — who knows).
to Miss India, I think your mistaking Russia for India, which is populated by poor, dirty,violent and uneducated people. Except for in India they dont have buildings, just dirt shacks, which is exactly where you belong
You moron, who told you that Miss India IS from India??? Cant you use your brain???
It’s not populated by poor Russians. It’s not even the most violent, racist, crime ridden city in Russia, let alone Europe. It’s the best place on earth.
I am speechless!
I have had friends who have been to St. Petersburg. Every one of them came back telling me what a beautiful city it is, and that I should go. I had even seen their travel pics! But too see this incredible place from the air is to realize just what an architectural gem it truly is!!! Now I must go!
Great pics! Thanks for posting them!
What is the red tower-like building on e.g. picture number 8?
It’s a Water Tower about Embankment.
I saw my own home on some pictures.
At the “Petrograd Side”.
Targeting …Targeting …Targeting … Woops coldwar over with.
I’ve been to many places in these photos! I’ve been to the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Issac’s Cathedral (which to me looks like the State Capital of Texas), and the Winter Palace/Hermitage Museum.
They were all delightful treats!
St. Petersburg is a freakin awesome city. I lived there for a year (back in the day when it was still Leningrad), and I would go back in a second to live if I could find a real job.
Metro Pribaltiskaya representin!
many Russian cities are beautiful in the way of architecture. Same about Ukranian, Belorussian. This is just one of the many.
I’m reluctant to add any cliches to the above…really it’s my dream city. I guess I’d need a tourist guide to fully exploit it. My sense of direction is vague at the best of times. Only my heart is in the right place…I think. Speaking ironically, of course.
Is there a web page of the “Museum of the Leningrad Blockade”?
http://www.blokadamus.spb.ru/
I realized that this city is so much beautiful as I thought it would be.
I would really love to visit this fascinating city.
regards from Mexico!!
Northern Venezia, definitely!
^__^
Awesome pictures! Thanks!
One day my country won’t suck so much… I’ll have beautiful cities like this… and people will actually live there…
Thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures. I miss my city a lot and never saw it from the helicopter view. Enjoy this beauty everybody who is planning to travel to S.Petersburg soon.
Great photos. It’s amazing how much cleaner the city appears from a few hundred feet up!
And yes, I saw my house too!
Outstanding pictures, doesn’t matter who designed the buildings, they are brilliant…
I recognized the artillery museum featured earlier.
We went to Saint Petersburg (via Moscow & train)last summer. Thanks for the pics its a perspective we missed. Are they taken from the some chopper that didnt fly the day we went to the Peter Hof? We went by Hydrofoil instead.The city was beautiful even with the blemishes of all large cities. We are thinking of a return visit in the winter, is this a wise move,Weatherwise?
winter is bad time in SPb
End of June is the best time to visit
After seeing these pictures I have no doubts that russia is the most corrupted country. Most of these buildings are the exact COPY of our greatest American architecture.People, you probably never visited USA and never seen the architecture we have. Go to Washington DC and see the white house, see the library. Go to NY and see the wallstreet or go to Disney Land which is truly brilliant. Yes maybe I am a proud American, but we Americans just trying to help other countries to become free as we are! And we have Holliwood with the best actors in the world. How come our actor are the most famous in the world and not Russian or Italian? Did anyone evere heard anything about Italian or French actors or films? NO! Because american movies bring the culture and educate peopole.
Great post by Johny, obviously he is not american
His spelling capabilities are pointing out he actually MIGHT be american…
…and his American exceptionalism confirms it.
How old is US? Our city is older than all ur US.
what about Fellini, Sophia Loren, Roberto Benigni … ?
Superb
I am in serious doubt as to whether this pile of horseshit was indeed written by a Yank (”Holliwood” misspelling etc.).
Of course everybody knows French and Italian actors (Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Louis de Funes, Jean Reno, to name a few). BTW, even the best Wild West movie of all times, “Once Upon the Time in the West”, was shot by Italian director Sergio Leone.
I am sure only a retard can call Disneyland, an archetype of all-American kitsch, “brilliant”.
SP is the most beautiful city in the world. The city that most influenced literature, music, culture in Russia.
Beautiful but not the dvors on the ground with the peeling walls and rats. But you can’t see them from here.
I saw where I stayed when. photos. 17 and 19.
Right next to Zenit football stadium on petrogradskaya storona.
Go zenit!
RUSSIA STOLE OUR IDEA TO PUT TREES IN THEIR CITIES FUCKING STEALERS AMERICA CAME UP WITH THAT IDEA. WE ALSO CAME UP WTIH BUILDING CITIES NEAR WATER.
you are an idiot and just as uneducated as most americans,
LOL one of the main reasons civilization arose was because with a water source nearby larger groups of people could be sustained. Americans were over 7000 years late to originate that! Do you really expect me to believe they were the first to come up with trees in cities? What will you say next? Did Americans invent food? Did they invent wearing clothes? Or is it possible that people lived and survived before Americans?
FUCKING FLAWLESS TROLLING
I can’t believe you faggots fell for that.
The best part: you call Americans stupid.
too right amen!
Its really sad to see how mislead and disillusioned Americans are. Living under the military dictatorship of Bush and still thinking that they are living in a “free country”, and you know why Bush was able to manipulate Americans, is becase most of the are extremelly ignorant and uneducated, just like our friend above. Russia is soooo much older than the States, and its more like Us was inspired by Europe not the other way around. and actually Saint Petersburg was inspired by Venice you idiot, go get an education
St. Pete was inspired by Amsterdam. Peter the Great was a great admirer of the dutch and spend lost of time there, studying the art of shipbuilding mostly. His favorite outfit was a dutch deckhands outfit. In particular when participating in triumph marches, when everybody would expect him to wear a Tzar’s regal outfit !
St. Pete ’s canals are inspired by the Amsterdam canals.
…that’s to be expected when one is educated by Fox News.
John, Lay off, most of these idiot-sounding ‘Americans’ probably aren’t. But you upchuck some similar stuff, so I’m beginning to wonder about you.
I visited this city when it was still Leningrad, in about 1984, stayed in the Hotel Europa on Nevsky Prospekt.
The hotel was very grand in its lower floors, the restaurant was beautiful, with its stained glass windows, and ceiling.
But upstairs?
Our rooms were a different world, worn and dirty, with the threads of the carpets torn. The joke was that the KGB were listening to every room, as the James Bond stories would have us believe.
But of course, as any Russian knows, the truth is that even if there were listening devices in every room, how many might work at any given time?
We had our share of being followed.
But we also met ordinary Leningrad people, who were kind and helpful, we were impressed at how many spoke some english, none of us could speak Russian. We were invited to a few homes, to one couple’s party, told how to get there without being followed… do not use an intourist taxi…bus, private car…
One night, trying to get into a bar, where we could hear music and laughter, the doorman would not let us in, nyet, no foreigners… but in our party were pretty girls, fron Finland, and as we were walking away, we asked a party of sailors, in uniform, where we might find a bar, not the hotel or intourist foreign currency bars, but one where local people would go. They pointed back up the street, we told them the doorman said no.
Ha! our new friends marched us back up the street, we could see the doorman about to say no…. but. no. he did not dare. So we were guests of the submarine fleet that evening, of drinking, dancing, and laughter.
They told us funny stories of the cold war as lived by the sub crews, of sitting quiet under the sea as an american ship searched for them, of playing their sub’s record… The Beatles: They all sang at the top of their voices, “We all live in a yellow submarine!” They told us they would play it to deafen the NATO submarine hunters….
Thanks, English Russia for these pictures, they bring back a lot of memories.
A beautiful city, and some wonderful people.
Great story, thanks.
you, pot head, the USA did not even exist when S.Pb was built.
Lorenna, Get your history straight, many cities in the New World are older than “Sant” (not that matters a tinkers damn). I hope you’re not an N. American, because you are a retard.
… What a wonderful city!!! I hope to visit it in person sometime. and just for the record not all Ameicans think the world revolves around us. Love this website, a great way to sortof visit another world.
thanks for yor attention
Now im living in St Petersburg!!!Im happy now…yes,guys,really!!!such a beautiful places around!!!i came back from America, actually from Hawaii(i was there about 1year than leave it for Russia)…but even ocean or palm-trees or Hawaians could make me happy!!!miss u America BUT LOVE u Russia
Hi,
I visited St.Pete last summer(August,2007).It is wonderful.I recommend all friends to visit this beautiful city.
beautiful. it looks far more better than where i live (montreal, canada). greetings..
hi
hossein jon halesho bebar
Beautiful pictures!
The big stone obelisk on the middle of the plaza front of the Winter Palace is brought from Virolahti, Finland, at least 150 kilometers from SPb. I can’t understand how it was possible on 18th century! It must weight hundreds of tons.
I like to be there. Its one of my dreams to travel to Russia. I hope, by God’s grace, i can make it there one day.
it’s fucking beautiful! i would love to visit st. petersburg one day
love the stadiums!
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Saint Petersburg is my favorite city for walking (in the summer). I love the bridges. In fact, it is known as the Venice of the North with over 1,000 bridges connecting its 42 islands according to wikipedia. Some are ornately detailed footbridges and another is Blue Bridge. Blue bridge is the widest bridge in the Venice of the North covering an impressive width of 97.3 meters. I love the ‘White Nights’ celebration!
Can any country be more beautiful than Russia?
Someday I will be blessed enough to see such a stunning city…
Oh, and all the conceited bastards who call themselves Americans and shame their country, go lay down in a corner and die. The Cold War ended a long time ago.
Priviet
Russia has beautyful cities and amazing women. Ok…people may be sort of rude sometimes, but if you learn some russsian and try to communicate, they will be rather friendly.
They just dont like to hear somebody speaking english…historical reasons and current diplomatic issues I guess.
Just some words regarding russian girls. The opinion in western countries is that they are cheap and easy to get, mainly because of the way they dress. However, fact is that the majority of young russian woman are well educated, intelligent and have high moral standarts. So, just dont be disapointed if you can only watch but not touch
Anyway, you will considerably improve your chances by learning russian!
Poka
This is a place of great appeal! I’d like to visit someday. By the way, is accomodation expensive there?
Just read everything here. I was born in Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg now).I live in USA for 17 years in state of Maine 11 years. Comments by stupid Johny and Jack that russian copyed everything from America and Americans the best and brightest are absolutly moronic. After 1917 revolution in Russia a lot of russians ingeners fled to America . Sicorskiy -russian who built helicopter in Connecticut, Russian ingeneer Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin invented TV living in USA, American P-47 Thunderbolt during ww2 built russian Alexsandr Kartvely,
But here in maine and NH americans build houses from plywood and 2×4 and they look like animal sheds and they think they are geniuoses.
Not all americans stupid but a lot of them. Plus most of them snithes and informers. A lot of them know nothing about History of any kind. Many kids after high school hardly can count.
Saint-Petersburg is wonderful city and built by Great Europeans
America has never won a War in its short history! No-one can win a civil war, as your fighting yourselves, as it was British Vs British. America then lost the war against Mexico(!!!) Not to mention the fact they suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Native Americans. America then ‘won’ WW1 for the allies, despite the fact that the Axis were fighting off the allies, and could have done so for at least another year, but popular riots had sparked up across Germany, which forced Germany to leave the war, and led to the abdication of the monarch in power at that point. This meant that it wasn’t the americans being mowed down by the German defences who won the war, but the Germans themselves taking things into their own hands. WWII…..All I need to say is this-80% of German losses were inflicted by the Russians.
what are you dull!? Almost all architecture in St. Petersburg of esch from times of his foundation from the beginning of a 18 age, in America of esch none normal building it was not built!!!
Yeah, St Petersburg is a beautiful city, no doubt. It’s really sad that so many people, both European and Western have such twisted ideas about the other. The fact is that Russia has had a long and glorious history with much to be lauded and much to be condemned, but then again so has the USA. Americans, at least those of us that still think for ourselves, are very tolerant and understanding people with a great curiosity about other cultures and peoples. The prevailing mindset these days is to let others do your thinking for you and you just regurgitate what you have been fed. This is sad and reminescent of the old Soviet Union. While Russia is moving forward into the next millenium the USA is losing it’s God given freedom’s to the politically correct/expedient left that made life in the USSR difficult for 70 years.
Come on folks, let’s try to understand each other and learn to enjoy each others culture without the neanderthal comments that only serve to reflect the propaganda that we all are being subjected to.
Thats a beautiful city you got my russian friends.
A friend from India.
I do not understand. I just viewed pictures of Saint Petersburg (PITER) taken from a helicopter. These are some of the best views of Saint Petersburg I have ever seen. I do not understand why all of these comments, anti-Russian, anti-American, et cetera are poping up from this……
awesome city
Very interesting photographs. I would like to visit Saint Petersburg one day.
Beuatiful photos.
The navy ship shown in a couple photos, is that the Potemkin?