A huge greenhouse located in the heart of St. Petersburg, "Flower Showroom" is for those who are bored and tired of winter and want to experience summer when it is dark, cold, and snowy outside. A huge greenhouse of 22 hectares, the atmosphere inside is amazing, as it features beautiful flowers, plants, and exotic greenery that makes you miss summer instantly.

Thousands of sparklers will light up Palace Square at 10 pm tonight! The people who will attend will be celebrating the beginning of a new age, and not the end of the world, as many around the world have said will happen on 21.12.2012! :) Everyone is invited, so come out on the 21st at 10 pm to Palace Square and celebrate the beginning of a new age with thousands of other people!

On December 18th, 2012, you can watch decorated Coca-Cola trucks travel around St. Petersburg that are lit up with Christmas lights! The Coca-Cola caravan will proceed along the following route: Moskovskiy Prospect, Sennaya Ploshad, St. Isaac’s Square, English Embankment (Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya), Nevsky Prospect, Ploshad Vosstaniya, Ligovskiy Prospect, and then Prospect Slavi.

Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Claus) has decided to abandon his traditional procession on Nevsky Prospect and will arrive in St. Petersburg on the ice of the Neva River on a snowmobile! The main character of the New Year and Christmas holidays arrives on December 22nd and will light the Christmas tree on Vasilievsky Island, and then go on his sleigh to the Bronze Horseman.

On December 22nd 2012, the opening of the Christmas and New Year celebrations in St. Petersburg will be marked with a large-scale cultural and artistic project that was first implemented ten years ago. Since then, it has become a favorite local tradition. This year, the main Russian Santa Claus (Ded Moroz) will not go on Nevsky Prospect, but instead will come to visit St. Petersburg on an official visit on December 22nd.

On December 5th, 2012, Palace Square will be decorated to celebrate New Year’s. The traditional New Year’s tree will be placed on the square, and the tree is an astonishing 35 meters tall. The New Year’s tree is the main symbol of this holiday in Russia, and it will be decorated with more than 8,000 ornaments and LED lights.

Come and experience the most beautiful tour of the year in St. Petersburg! The tour departs in the evening, when St. Petersburg is becoming lit up by all the beautiful lights magnifying the buildings around the city, making St. Petersburg truly fabulous. This holiday is from the time of Peter the Great, and is still celebrated to this day. The first place where the first Christmas tree was installed as a celebration of New Year in the 18th century is among the stops in the tour.

The first duty-free shop is to open at Vyborgsky railroad station around March 2013, and another one will open at Finlanskiy a month later. The total of 30 new stores are planned to be open in train stations all around Russia. 

Not so many duty free shops throughout the world exist in the railroad stations, the most famous of which is located in Hong Kong. In Russia at present, duty free shops can only be found in airports, but this is soon to change.

These are the best places in St. Petersburg to drink a nice hot chocolate or tasty cocoa:

In St. Petersburg, there will soon be places where you can charge your cell phones for free. The machines will be placed in the most visited places in the city such as coffee shops, bars, cafes, restaurants, shopping centers, and other popular areas in St. Petersburg. The first has already appeared in "Coffee House" on the 7th line on Vasilevskiy Island.