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Special offer The transport company ACCORD TT is the first transport company focused on rendering business-class services to businessmen visiting St. Petersburg. We provide comfortable trip round the city with a personal driver. All clients get a 40%-discount till March 1.

ACCORD TT provides for rent to the clients the automobiles BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Opel Vectra with a personal competent driver capable to resolve any problems arising on the way. The drivers know the city well and will help to plan a convenient route, to choose places for business negotiations and meetings, will help to order air and railway tickets, to pay a mobile phone bill, etc. The automobiles are equipped with all necessary facilities for productive work away from office. We offer a wide spectrum of services and take the client's individual needs into consideration. more

Saint Petersburg is a city located in North-western Federal District of Russia on the delta of the Neva River at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is informally known as Piter (Питер) and was formerly known as Petrograd (1914-1924) and Leningrad (1924-1991).

 

Founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 16 (27), 1703 as a "window to Europe", it served as the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years. St. Petersburg ceased being the capital when the government moved to Moscow after the Russian Revolution of 1917. With about 4.8 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city, Europe's eleventh largest metropolitan area, a major European cultural center, and the most important Russian port on the Baltic. The city has a total area of 1439 square km, which makes it the second biggest city in terms of area among cities with over a million inhabitants in Europe, after London.

 

Among cities of the world having populations of over one million people, Saint Petersburg is the northernmost. The city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Russia's political and cultural center for 200 years, the city is impressive even today, and is sometimes referred to in Russia as "the Northern Capital". It is the administrative center of Leningrad Region (itself a separate region) and of the Northwestern Federal District.

St Petersburg is known as the city of 300 bridges

The majestic appearance of St. Petersburg is achieved through a variety of architectural details including long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monuments and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite embankments and bridges gives the city a unique and striking ambience. These bodies of water led to St. Petersburg being given the name of "Venice of the North".

 

St. Petersburg's position below the Arctic Circle, on the same latitude as nearby Helsinki, Stockholm, Aberdeen and Oslo (60° N), causes twilight to last all night in May, June and July. This celebrated phenomenon is known as the "white nights". The white nights are closely linked to another attraction - the eight drawbridges spanning the Neva. Tourists flock to see the bridges drawn and lowered again at night to allow shipping to pass up and down the river. Bridges open from May to late October according to a special schedule between approximately 2 a.m. and 4:30 a.m.

 

The historical center of St. Petersburg, sometimes called the outdoor museum of Architecture, was the first Russian patrimony inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.