Coming Up Heritage Education Saint Petersburg

A Creative Competition for the Friends of Saint Petersburg

“Friends of Saint Petersburg” is a festival of creative and educational projects under the auspices of PJSC Gazprom, devoted to preserving the city's heritage and fostering its development.

3 days, 20+ venues, 80+ events, 15,000+ free tickets: from masterclasses and lectures to theatre performances, concerts and original walking tours.

For everyone whom Saint Petersburg inspires to create, we are launching, together with VK, the competition ЯДругПетербурга (“I am a Friend of Petersburg”)!
1. Subscribe to the community https://vk.com/spbwithfriends.
2. Attend any event of the “Friends of Saint Petersburg” festival or take a walk with an audio guide from the project's website.
3. Post a review on your own VKontakte page about your impressions of the festival or of the audio-guide tour. An important condition: the post must be published on a user's personal page, and the page must be open.
Do not forget the hashtags, so that your post is seen:

The more creative the post, the better your chances of winning! Have your photograph taken with friends and festival volunteers, shoot videos, upload clips, publish articles!

For the best reviews, the winners will receive valuable and memorable prizes:
1st place: VK Kapsula smart speaker with the voice assistant Marusya
2nd place: VK Kapsula Mini smart speaker with the voice assistant Marusya
3rd place: “Friends of Saint Petersburg” festival merchandise

The results will be announced on 1 November!

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

A Creative Competition for the Friends of Saint Petersburg

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s