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The St.Petersburg history museum at the Rumyantsev mansion

In the very centre of St. Petersburg on the English Embankment stands the mansion of Count Nikolay Rumyantsev, which is now home to the city’s history museum. Its exhibits focus on a time when St. Petersburg was still Leningrad, and the museum’s artifacts allow visitors to gain a different perspective of the city’s history and residents during the Soviet era. The impressive expanse of the exhibitions covers the heroic defence of Leningrad during the Second World War and of the city’s greatest human tragedy that took place during the Blockade. RTG TV host Igor Maximenko got to check out these fascinating exhibits for himself and take an interactive journey through time, finding out what the city and its residents were like almost 100 years ago.

Fishing on the Gorky reservoir

The majestic Volga River has been famous for its fish since ancient times. The many peoples that live on the banks of the great river believed that it was fish from the Volga River that supported and fed the whole world. In the 17th century, fishermen from the upper Volga city of Yuravets were responsible for supplying Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich with the sturgeon, sheefish and sterlet for his table. More than 50 years ago soviet power engineers built a cascade of powerful hydroelectric power plants on the Volga, transforming the river into a series of reservoirs. One of them, the Gorky Reservoir, then became a popular place for fishermen to cast their rods. It is here on the bank of the reservoir that the all-Russian Fisherman Festival (“Rybak Rybaka”) takes place.