Although there are many main streets, grand squares, and famous addresses in St. Petersburg that tourists need to learn about them before they start their travel to Russia, there are three main avenues in St. Petersburg that you need to know about them if you want to walk around the city and enjoy your free time on tour to St. Petersburg. These three avenues are Nevsky Prospect, Moskovsky Prospect, and Liteyny Prospect.
Nevsky Prospect
Nevsky Prospect is the main street of St. Petersburg. It’s also the most important and the ones that most tourists will visit during their travel to Russia. Nevsky Prospect, which links the Admiralty Building and Alexander Nevsky Lavra together, goes in the center of the city. Many believe that Nevsky Prospect is the heart and soul of St. Petersburg, especially in terms of the tourism industry because in addition to multiple attractions of tour to Russia, there are more than enough modern and historical shopping centers, top restaurants, critical cultural centers, and lots of recreational opportunities in this street. It also the central link between lots of significant places in St. Petersburg, such as grand squares and main streets. Almost every tourist on tour to St. Petersburg will visit this avenue with their tour group and alone because the attractions and opportunities inside this avenue are more than enough for travel agencies to offer to their travelers. It’s also one of the leading centers of St. Petersburg nightlife, which is one of the most significant attractions on tour to St. Petersburg for foreigners. Nevsky Prospect is undoubtedly on our visit list at the Star Travel Group because tourists can find whatever they need from their tour to St. Petersburg inside this avenue, from shopping centers and cafes to luxury restaurants and significant attractions of Russia tour. However, besides this avenue, there are many other places that you need to visit during your travel to Russia. Still, you can find more than enough attractions in this avenue, including the famous Kazan Cathedral and the renowned Singer House.
When we talk about tourist center in St. Petersburg, there’s nobody that doesn’t mention Nevsky Prospect among their visit list because there’s no other place that houses more attractions that Nevsky Prospect. If we overlook the State Hermitage Museum, which is technically located outside Nevsky avenue, there still are lots of museums, such as Anchikov Palace, Stroganov Palace, and Kazan Cathedral. There are also several major shopping centers, such as Great Gostiny Dvor and the Passage on this street. You can find several cultural centers, such as Alexandrinsky Theatre that entertain tourists of St. Petersburg as well as educate them about the art and culture of Russia, and yet, you have not visited places such as The Singer house, Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, Admiralty Building, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and Theatre Museum, which all are located on Nevsky Prospect. These are the main reasons why this avenue is so crucial in the St. Petersburg tour. Besides all of these, Nevsky Prospect is one of the main streets of St. Petersburg, in which you can find your way to other essential streets in the city, and consider as one of the top walking routes for people who want to walk around the town without their tour leaders and Russia tour group.
Moskovsky Prospect
Nevsky Prospect is not the only avenue that appeared in St. Petersburg from the beginning of foundation, Moskovsky Prospect also formed at the same time. Moskovsky Prospect is a ten-kilometer-long street that links the center of the city to the south part. This avenue was the main road to Moscow. However, in the beginning, only Russian nobles and imperial family members could use the street to travel to Moscow, which is why people called it the Tsarskoselsky Tract. However, soon after its development in the late 18th century and early 19th century, everyone could use it. During the Soviet era, Moskovsky Avenue was chosen to become the center of the city for various reasons. However, that plan never took place, but several important buildings was constructed in this avenue, which each of them can be an excellent example of Stalinism era architecture. Although Mosovsky Avenue is one of St. Petersburg’s main streets, most tourists in Tour to St. Petersburg have only visited it when they arrive in the city via Pulkovo Airport.
Among the attractions that you can find in Moskovsky Avenue, we can mention the Moskovsky Triumphal Gates, which once was the largest iron-cast triumphal gates in the world and considered as the welcoming gates to the imperial capital city. There’s also the Moskovsky Victory Park, a monumental park that established after the Second World War to honor the people who have lost their lives during the Seige of Leningrad and those who have fought to keep the city safe from Nazi Germany. You can also find one of the most magnificent monumental structures to the Siege of Leningrad in Victory Square on Moskosky Avenue, which has a small museum about that era in its basement.
Liteyny Prospect
Another main street of St. Petersburg, which at some points intersect Nevsky Prospect is Liteyny Prospect. While in the beginning, this avenue had a common-look because of all the iron cast workshops in it, not long needed for Liteyny Avenue to replace its look with a luxury one and attract Russian nobles’ attention. However, during the first years of existence, the workshops inside this avenue were in charge of casting the first canons for the Russian Navy. Although there aren’t many attractions inside Liteyny Prospect, as much as there is in Nevsky and Moskovsky avenues, there are multiple shopping centers, restaurants, cafes, and bars in Liteyny Prospect, which makes it one of the nightlife centers of St. Petersburg.
Besides Sheremetev Palace, which houses two separate museums, there aren’t many other attractions in Liteyny Prospect. However, there are two amazing cathedrals on each end of Ulitsa Pestelya, one of the side streets of Liteyny Prospect. You can find the Church of St. Panteleimon the Healer and Transfiguration Cathedral. Each one of them has its way to entertain tourists of Russia tour.
You can learn more about all of these three avenues and all attractions, shopping centers, restaurants, and places to visit inside them on our weblog, which will help you have a more exciting trip to St. Petersburg.
