The greatest experiment in the world history - the rising of the USSR - that is what totally changed the face of our city. And it is very interesting to see how it was built and to compare two cities St.Petersburg and Leningrad.
We made a list of carefully selected tours with a soviet theme. Our guides will help you to discover more than lies on the surface of the city, to understand its history and the essence of things.
Soviet architectors dreamed to build a city of the socialist dream. What is the architecture of the avant-garde? How is it reflected in the epoch, ideologн and politics of those years? What unites
Constructivism and the revolution? During this tour you will travel through Vasilievsky Island and listen to the story of the rise and fall of the most creative artistic style of the 20th century.
The excursion goes through the stations built across the first line from Avtovo to Ploshad Vosstaniya.
What did people drink? Where did they meet each other? What did they talk about? Rumochnaya - is a term that appeared in the Soviet times. It is something like a bar but different. To understand it you need to experience it!
7. Tour to an old Russian Cinema
"Soviet cinema" is a special big and interesting theme. It was a new view on the cinema - social realism - different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union.
the Soviet Central Government primarily viewed film as a way to control the masses, but, many directors risked severe punishment in order to produce films that might not fit with official party lines, but were important nevertheless.
During this tour you will see the backstages of an old movie theater. And if you wish any old russian movie with subtitles can be shown.