Treasury of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Habsburg Treasury (Vienna)

St. Petersburg Zoo, Leningrad Zoo Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg Zoological Park (the Zoo, for short; officially called Leningrad Zoological Park) is the first Russia's zoological park. It was founded in the historical centre of Saint Petersburg, in the Alexander Park area, in 1865. The location of the Zoo has become part of the history of the city. Though the buildings of the Zoo constructed be...

St. Petersburg Planetarium Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

The St. Petersburg Planetarium was opened in 1959 г. A unique apparatus called Tzene is installed in the Planetarium and allows to "see" the sky from any place on the Earth. The Planetarium dome is 24 metres (79 feet) in diameter....

Central Museum of Railway Transport of Russia Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

In the early 19th century, the developing agriculture, industry, internal and external trade in Russia required new and more reliable transport routes. On 20th November 1809, the Corps of Transport Route Engineers (the Corps, for short) was established, for the purpose of construction and usage of water and land transport routes. Together with t...