Sankt-Peterburg, Rusya: yıl boyunca neler var

Kalabalık — New Year holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 7 tanesinde okul tatili

Ocak ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: New Year holidays (31 Ara – 8 Oca)

Sakin — burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili, hava açısından en kötü aylarından biri

• Festival

  Maslenitsa

  16–22 ŞubKarnaval

  Pancake week before Lent, with stalls in the parks and on Yelagin Island and an effigy burned on the Sunday. It arrives at the point the winter has stopped being interesting. Kaynak ↗

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

Mart ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Maslenitsa (16–22 Şub)

Kalabalık — Peterhof fountains switched on, burayı dolduran pazarların 6 tanesinde okul tatili

• Açılış

  Neva bridges lift

  10 Nis – 30 KasKapanışlar

  Navigation opens on 10 April, and from then until the end of November a dozen bridges over the Neva raise every night for shipping. Get caught on the wrong bank after one and you wait until five. Kaynak ↗

• Açılış

  Peterhof fountains switched on

  25 Nis – 12 Eki · geneldeYaz sezonu açılıyorKalabalık

  The Grand Cascade is started with a ceremony in the last days of April and shut down in the second week of October. Out of season Peterhof is a park with dry statues in it. Kaynak ↗

Çok kalabalık — Peterhof fountains switched on, Victory Day

• Tatil

  Victory Day

  9 MayResmî tatilKapanışlarKalabalık

  A parade on Palace Square, the centre closed to traffic from early morning, and fireworks over the Neva at night. Rehearsals shut Nevsky on a couple of days beforehand as well. Kaynak ↗

• Doğa

  White nights

  25 May – 17 Tem · geneldeGece yarısı güneşiKalabalık

  For about seven weeks around the solstice it never gets properly dark. The embankments are busy at two in the morning, nobody sleeps much, and the hotels charge for it.

• Festival

  Stars of the White Nights

  25 May – 25 Tem · geneldeMüzik festivaliErken rezervasyon

  The Mariinsky runs opera and ballet nightly across its three stages for two months of the summer, which is the only time the company is all in one city. Kaynak ↗

• Tatil

  City Day

  27 MayBüyük festivalKalabalık

  The city's founding is marked on 27 May with free concerts and closures along Nevsky, at the point the white nights are starting and the parks have just come back. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Neva bridges lift (10 Nis – 30 Kas), Peterhof fountains switched on (25 Nis – 12 Eki (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Peterhof fountains switched on, White nights

• Doğa

  Poplar fluff

  1–28 Haz · geneldePolen sezonu

  Poplar seed drifts down the streets like snow for two or three weeks in June and piles up in the gutters and the metro entrances. Anyone with hay fever notices it immediately.

• Festival

  Scarlet Sails

  18–30 Haz · geneldeIşık ve ateşKalabalıkKapanışlar

  The school-leavers' night in late June: a tall ship with red sails comes up the Neva and the city puts on its largest fireworks. The embankments are closed and the metro runs all night. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Neva bridges lift (10 Nis – 30 Kas), Peterhof fountains switched on (25 Nis – 12 Eki (genelde)), White nights (25 May – 17 Tem (genelde)), Stars of the White Nights (25 May – 25 Tem (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Peterhof fountains switched on, White nights

• Tatil

  Navy Day

  25–31 Tem · geneldeBüyük festivalKalabalıkKapanışlar

  On the last Sunday of July warships line the Neva and the centre is closed for the parade. Rehearsals shut the embankments for several days beforehand. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Neva bridges lift (10 Nis – 30 Kas), Peterhof fountains switched on (25 Nis – 12 Eki (genelde)), White nights (25 May – 17 Tem (genelde)), Stars of the White Nights (25 May – 25 Tem (genelde))

Kalabalık — Peterhof fountains switched on, burayı dolduran pazarların 7 tanesinde okul tatili

Ağustos ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Neva bridges lift (10 Nis – 30 Kas), Peterhof fountains switched on (25 Nis – 12 Eki (genelde))

Kalabalık — Peterhof fountains switched on, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

• Doğa

  Golden autumn in the palace parks

  25 Eyl – 20 Eki · geneldeSonbahar renkleri

  Pushkin, Pavlovsk and the Peterhof lower park turn through the first half of October, after the coach season has thinned. The last good fortnight before the light goes for the winter.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Neva bridges lift (10 Nis – 30 Kas), Peterhof fountains switched on (25 Nis – 12 Eki (genelde))

Kalabalık — Peterhof fountains switched on, burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili

Ekim ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Neva bridges lift (10 Nis – 30 Kas), Peterhof fountains switched on (25 Nis – 12 Eki (genelde)), Golden autumn in the palace parks (25 Eyl – 20 Eki (genelde))

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

Kasım ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Neva bridges lift (10 Nis – 30 Kas)

Kalabalık — New Year holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 7 tanesinde okul tatili

• Tatil

  New Year holidays

  31 Ara – 8 OcaNoel ve yılbaşıKapanışlarKalabalık

  The country takes the first eight days of January off. The palaces and the Hermitage stay open and are the busiest they get all winter; almost everything else is shut. Kaynak ↗