Events on the palace square on May 27. Day of the city

The program of events for City Day in St. Petersburg always delights viewers with its scale, diversity and grandeur. There are events that happen year after year and are traditional, such as an ice cream festival or a carnival procession along Nevsky Prospekt. But every year, the organizers still present citizens with a surprise in the form of a creative flash mob, an unexpected performance or an original event.

It is worth noting that one of the most significant and solemn moments of the celebration is the ceremony of laying flowers at the monument to Peter I, thanks to whose incredible courage, determination and inflexibility this beautiful city appeared on the world map.

The content and nature of the entertainment program that will be held in St. Petersburg on the occasion of the City Day celebrations one hundred percent justifies the fact that this is the cultural capital of Russia. Thus, on the eve of the long-awaited and joyful day, all sorts of examples of public transport from different countries and eras will appear in the urban space in different parts of the city. In total, more than a hundred such objects will be exhibited, and they will all differ from each other in configuration, style, and color scheme. This will be a grandiose exhibition on a metropolitan scale.

And on City Day itself, May 27, all attention will be concentrated around the main local square: “Classics on Dvortsovaya” will once again take place here - a project that has earned love and respect not only from residents, but also from guests of the Northern capital. According to preliminary data, the organizers expect that more than half a million spectators will gather here, so the concert should turn out to be even more grandiose than before. Soloists from the world's leading opera stages will arrive in Russia to perform for those gathered in the heart of St. Petersburg. Thus, artists from La Scala, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris and Vienna Opera, and the Mariinsky Theater will shine with their unsurpassed vocals. The greatest opera arias, works of geniuses - Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Gounod and others will be performed here. In addition, the program includes original ancient Neapolitan songs, as well as fragments from famous operettas.

Of course, the format involves exclusively live performance and live sound. It is reported that choreographic groups will also perform on stage, so St. Petersburg residents will be treated to a full-fledged celebration of art. You can watch “Classics on Dvortsovaya” absolutely free of charge, and this is one of the main gifts for everyone without exception. The gala concert is scheduled to start at 21:00, but we recommend that you arrive at the square in advance so that you can find a comfortable place to watch. But even if that doesn't happen, you'll still see the show. The organizers report that five giant video screens will be installed on the square, on which there will be a live broadcast of what is happening on stage.

By the way, those who attended this show last year in 2016 will be surprised: this time they will use a much larger amount of equipment, and the visual art effects that will be used during the concert will make even the most pretentious viewer gasp. The stage, as usual, will be decorated to resemble a ceremonial ballroom. The concert will feature actors in chic costumes who will set a special tone and atmosphere.

Saturday, May 27, 2017

The program for City Day in St. Petersburg 2017 will be specified.

One of the most beloved holidays among St. Petersburg residents is coming - we are, of course, talking about City Day. This year, the memorable date falls on Saturday, so the townspeople can expect a lot of exciting events: from a fun carnival with the participation of dachshunds and an ice cream festival to a ball on Palace Street and sand sculptures.

Launch of fountains in the Summer Garden

The Russian Museum invites all St. Petersburg residents to the Summer Garden on May 27, where the opening celebration of the fountain season will take place, traditionally timed to coincide with City Day. Already in summer, the warm air will sparkle with billions of multi-colored rainbow droplets of water as soon as the sound of the midday cannon shot of the Peter and Paul Fortress subsides.
In addition to the amazing spectacle of the fountains coming to life, vacationers in the Summer Garden will be able to wander around this historical park and listen to free excursions about the green pearl of St. Petersburg. They will be held at 13:00, 14:30 and 16:00. Walks in the fresh air will be accompanied by the beautiful sounds of music: St. Petersburg residents will meet the Northern City Orchestra and its conductor Olesya Ivanova and other creative groups of the cultural capital.
Admission to all events is free.

On City Day, the St. Petersburg metro will operate around the clock

There are no plans to close the metro on the night of May 27-28. Citizens will be able to get into the subway from 02:00 to 04:30 using a token or a “Plantain”. Contactless smart cards will not work and you will not be able to top them up.

We would like to add that some lobbies will still be closed to passengers. Among them are vestibule 1 of the Prospekt Veteranov station, vestibule 2 of the Leninsky Prospekt station, vestibule 2 of the Lenin Square station, vestibule 1 of the Moskovskaya station, vestibule 2 of the Nevsky Prospekt station, as well as station lobbies "Technological Institute - 1", "Alexander Nevsky Square - 2", "Dostoevskaya" and "Spasskaya".

Festival "Salt Town - City of Masters"

Throughout the day on May 27, exhibitions, fairs and master classes will be held in Salt Town. On the shelves there are real works of art - rings, cufflinks, pendants, earrings, even bracelets with figs. If you want to learn how to make interesting and original things with your own hands, masters will teach you their craft. In any case, they will share the main secrets of working with different materials - for example, Tiffany stained glass techniques, making wooden toys and much more.
Invited musicians will help create a special atmosphere.
May 27 11:00–18:00
Salt Lane
For free

Ball of Nationalities

A striking part of the City Day celebration program in St. Petersburg will be the Ball of Nationalities. The event will take place on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island and will demonstrate how large and diverse our country is. The ball program includes demonstration performances by artists in national costumes, various folk dances, displays of clothing collections and playing musical instruments. Guests will also be able to take part in master classes and play national games.
May 27 13:00–17:00
Spit of Vasilyevsky Island
For free

Military-historical festival “Local Fights” 2017

On the territory of the exhibition complex of the ROO MPK "Sestroretsk Frontier", for two days in a row, with the support of the Border Department of the FSB of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the Administration of the Kurortny District of St. Petersburg, the Municipal Council of the Sestroretsk Municipal District, a military-historical festival will be held.

At the festival you will see: 2 military-historical reconstructions, equipment and weapons recreated in detail by enthusiasts from Russian military-historical clubs, a collection of firing points collected on the territory of the Sestroretsk Frontier, souvenir shops and a shooting range. It will also be possible to visit the interior of the exhibition complex. A field kitchen will be available for guests and participants.
Free admission.
Start of military-historical reconstructions: May 27 and 28 at 14:00.

Petersburgers will be shown a huge knitted carriage

On May 27 at 11:00 the installation “Fairytale Carriage” will be opened on St. Isaac’s Square. The Mitten Museum presents such an unusual gift to the townspeople. The designers were inspired to create the art object by the Great Coronation Carriage from the Hermitage collection. The height of the knitted exhibit will be three meters. He will stay until July 12th. You can inspect the carriage completely free of charge.

We would like to add that on the occasion of City Day, the Mittens Museum will host an Open Day. The program includes an outdoor exhibition of knitted portraits, free walks, live baroque music and a visit from a fortune-telling raven.

(May 27 – May 28)

holiday program

1. Ceremonial events

The city's 314th birthday will begin to be celebrated at 10:00 on Senate Square. The traditional ceremony of laying flowers at the Bronze Horseman, a monument to the city’s founding father, will take place here. At 11:30, the celebrations will move to the Peter and Paul Fortress, where at 12:00 a celebratory cannon salvo will be fired in honor of the city on the Neva. It will kick off a series of festive events.

2. Sand sculpture festival – 2017 “Great Russia”

At 12:00, the opening of the annual sand sculpture festival will take place on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The masters in their compositions talk about the most significant events in the history of Russia: the Great Patriotic War, space exploration, the 1980 Olympics, Russian cinema, animation and Russian literature.

Adult ticket - 350 rubles, children's ticket (children from 5 years old) - 250 rubles, pupils, students, pensioners - 300 rubles.
Peter-Pavel's Fortress

3. Launch of fountains in the Summer Garden

At 12:00, fountains will be launched in the Summer Garden on the occasion of the holiday. On this day, the space will delight city residents not only with the coolness blowing from the water splashes sparkling in the sun, but also with open-air performances by musicians. The festive atmosphere will be supported by a concert by the violin duet “Dolce”, actor and soloist of the Musical Comedy Theater Sergei Braga, actress of popular musicals Alina Atlasova and other artists.

Free admission.
Summer garden

4. “Tax Parade 2017”

On City Day, the garden of the Academy of Arts will be filled with dozens of dachshunds in different funny outfits. Here you can meet the Bee Dachshund, the Pirate Dachshund, the Superman Dachshund or the Empress Dachshund. Practice shows that the owners' imagination is unlimited. All day long the dogs will walk around Vasilyevsky Island, dance and delight passers-by with an elegant fashion show.

Free admission.
m. Vasileostrovskaya, Universitetskaya embankment, 17, garden of the Academy of Arts

5. Ice Cream Festival

The annual sweet holiday will be held in St. Petersburg for the 22nd time. Ostrovsky Square will turn into a kingdom of refreshing sweet delicacies, where you can taste all kinds of ice cream, sorbets, fruit ice, as well as have fun and watch good cartoons on the big screen with the whole family.

m. Gostiny Dvor, pl. Ostrovsky

6. Theater festival in Izmailovsky Garden

On City Day, the theater garden will be filled with the smell of roasting chestnuts, and guests will be able to enjoy ice cream and dance to great music. Actors from the Youth Theater on Fontanka will act out skits and sing songs, and animators dressed as Peter the Great and Fyodor Dostoevsky will walk along the alleys. At the end of the holiday, the Dunaevsky Orchestra group will perform, led by its frontman - artist of the Youth Theater Konstantin Dunaevsky.

The events will begin at 13:00. Free admission.
m. Technological Institute, emb. Fontanka River, 114, Izmailovsky Garden

7. “Fairytale carriage as a gift to the city”

On May 27, City Day, the team of the Mittens Museum will open an unusual exhibition of knitted portraits of the Romanovs on the square, part of which will be a unique art installation “Fairytale carriage as a gift to the city.” Thus, a three-meter copy of the coronation carriage of Peter I, well known from the Hermitage collection, will appear on St. Isaac's Square, but the fabulous carriage will be made entirely of wool. And they will decorate it with cute knitted accessories. From 11:00 to 19:00, passers-by will be able to take pictures with a knitted carriage and take part in a kind flash mob at the Mitten Museum.

m. Admiralteyskaya, Isaakievskaya sq.

8. Tulip Festival

Everyone's favorite spring holiday, the Tulip Festival, will open in the city on May 27 and 28. Guests and residents of the city will visit the magical island, which will once again be covered with colorful carpets of 140 thousand tulips. This year the tulips did not open their buds for a long time due to bad weather, but by the City Day of Yelagin the island will definitely be filled with the aromas of the most spring flowers.

Ticket for adult visitors - 250 rubles, schoolchildren and students - 50 rubles, preferential categories of citizens - free.
Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after. S. M. Kirova

9. Dancing on Strelka

Dancing on Strelka is a good tradition of summer St. Petersburg, when in the evenings on weekends an open air dance with loud music takes place at the Rostral Columns, and couples whirl in the dance, seeing off the setting sun, welcoming the white night. The new season of open air dances will start on May 27 at 17:00, City Day. Strelka will have professional sound installed, and singers and DJs will be responsible for the musical accompaniment. They will dance European, Latin American and domestic dances, and will dilute them with hustle and bachata.

Participation is free.
m. Vasileostrovskaya, Spit of Vasilyevsky Island

10. Gala concert “Classics on Dvortsovaya”

At 21:00 a traditional concert as a gift to the townspeople will begin on Palace Square. Stars of world opera and ballet will perform on the big stage in front of the Winter Palace. In the open air you will be able to listen to opera arias and watch excerpts from ballets performed by world stars of opera and ballet. In evening St. Petersburg, from a stage decorated in the spirit of a magnificent ballroom, works by Mozart, Verdi, and Strauss will be performed by the Mikhailovsky Theater orchestra. In the improvised ballroom, magnificent dancers will dance to recognizable melodies - it will be a real carnival.

Free admission.
Palace Square

11. Great bike parade

On May 28, a grand bicycle parade dedicated to City Day and the development of cycling culture will take place. Anyone can take part in the bike ride. The organizers encourage you to decorate your two-wheeled horses and dress up brightly. St. Petersburg cyclists will start at 12:00 on the square in front of the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, from where the column will move towards the 300th Anniversary Park. The event has been agreed upon, so traffic will be organized along closed city streets. At the finish line, participants in the bike parade will be treated to an entertainment program with street musicians, lectures, a bike market, a food court, outdoor games, an exhibition of retro and costume bikes, and a pop-up workshop.

m. Ploshchad Vosstaniya, Ligovsky Prospekt, 6

12. Flash mob “314 kites”

A flash mob “314 kites” will be held in the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. Hundreds of citizens will come together to simultaneously launch homemade flying structures of all colors, sizes and shapes into the sky. Anyone can take part in the flash mob. All you have to do is come to the park, taking your kite with you. And some of the kites will be made by the children from the Day Care Center for children with disabilities. If you don’t have your own summer toy, don’t despair: they will hold a master class on making kites for children and their parents. You can fly homemade kites right there on the park’s beach.

13. Plein air “I paint St. Petersburg”

On May 28, the central alley of the Summer Garden will turn into an outdoor painting area, where 300 easels will be installed and views of St. Petersburg from the collection of the Russian Museum will be offered. Anyone who has been putting off drawing lessons for a long time will be able to try their hand under the guidance of professional artists.

From the very moment of its foundation, St. Petersburg was preserved, created and inspired by the muses and geniuses of classical art. And it is completely natural that today, like hundreds of years ago, in the diversity of the most diverse genres and trends of St. Petersburg culture, the classics play a leading role.

Large-scale open-air classical art events, held on Palace Square in honor of City Day - the Founding Day of St. Petersburg, over the course of several years have turned into a vibrant cultural brand that attracts the attention of not only St. Petersburg residents, but also Russian and foreign tourists.

The audience of the “Classics on Dvortsovaya” show is growing every year, and it is expected that on May 27, the public concert of world opera and choreography will again gather over half a million spectators in rotation.

The program of the show, which has not been repeated once in five years, promises to be unique this time too: soloists of the leading opera stages of the world - La Scala, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Paris and Vienna Opera, including representatives of the national opera school, will perform exquisite classical works, ancient Neapolitan songs, fragments from famous operettas. It is especially valuable that it will not be banal, but, nevertheless, popular, light, effective and a classic that has long been loved by everyone. Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Lehar, Kalman - the works of these and other geniuses of classical art will be performed accompanied by the Mikhailovsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov, as well as one of the best youth choirs of the city. The unchanging principle of “Classics on Dvortsovaya” is only live music and live sound.

Only stars are announced as performers. People's Artist of Russia, the unsurpassed Dmitry Hvorostovsky, will congratulate St. Petersburg on his birthday - immortal musical hits performed by the world opera headliner will once again be performed in the concert space of Palace Square. Together with him, world-famous performers who have not previously performed at St. Petersburg open-air will appear on stage: one of the leading tenors of our time, Argentinean Marcelo Alvarez; singer, in demand at the most prestigious opera stages, inimitable soprano and face of popular global brands Sonya Yoncheva; exquisite beauty, lyric soprano, American Danielle De Niese. This evening the golden voices of the Russian opera school will also be heard: the fiery and bright opera diva, guest soloist of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters Veronika Dzhioeva; soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, tenor Alexei Tatarintsev, unique in technique and beauty of sound; soloists of the Mariinsky Theater - melodic, expressive tenor Sergei Skorokhodov and deep, regal mezzo-soprano Yulia Matochkina.

The show's director and director of DANCE OPEN, Ekaterina Galanova, emphasized that this year “Classics on Dvortsovaya” will surprise with even greater entertainment. The director's idea, successfully implemented all these years, of turning each performance into a mini-performance - with luxurious costumes, full-fledged drama and artistic atmosphere - will be enhanced thanks to bright scenographic solutions.

Columns and other elements of stage structures will be covered with LED screens, which, thanks to video content unique to each act, will turn into living scenery. Flowers will bloom on the stage and dryads will dance, and after a few moments it will be transformed, and the artists will find themselves in the sun-drenched square of the ancient Spanish city... Numerous mirrors, erasing the horizons of virtual spaces, will create the effect of infinity of cultural and historical allusions appearing and disappearing against the background architectural dominant - the baroque facade of the Winter Palace.

What is happening on stage will be clearly visible thanks to five large LED video screens installed on Palace Square.

In total, over 200 square meters of video projection canvas will be used to create visual art effects in the square and on the stage.

As a gift to connoisseurs of the Dance Open ballet brand, the program of the classical evening includes fragments from choreographic masterpieces performed by top-level artists.

A special, truly St. Petersburg atmosphere, transporting the imagination to the era of festive assemblies, will be given to the evening by performances by artists from the Theater of Mister Pejot's Wandering Dolls.

The dance part of the show will be graced by artists of the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater named after Leonid Yakobson, flamenco masters of the dance company Ursula Lopez and the TODES show ballet. It is curious that in order to participate in the “Classics on Dvortsovaya”, the dancers of this unique troupe embarked on a real creative experiment: the highest plastic and acrobatic skills, which have long been a TODES brand feature, will be included in new, unusual musical content for the troupe.

The project will take place on the initiative of the Government of St. Petersburg with the support of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg.

On the weekend of May 27 and 28, St. Petersburg celebrates such a big holiday as City Day, and therefore a lot of festive events are being prepared in the Northern capital.

The full program of events for St. Petersburg City Day 2017 is as follows:

– Classic on Dvortsovaya

A large concert of classical arts will open today at 21:00 and will be marked by performances by the soloist of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters Veronica Dzhioeva, the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Alexei Tatarintsev, Marcelo Alvarez, Sonya Yoncheva, Daniel De Niese.

– Tulip Festival

The bright event will take place for two days in the Kirov Park

– Green Marathon

In the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, a marathon is planned for athletes, which will take place along with a concert program

– Ice Cream Festival

A delicious festive event will start at 11:00 and last until 21:00 on Ostrovsky Square

– Festival for City Day – Founding Day of St. Petersburg

Opens at 12:00 at the Academy of Talents (embankment of the Malaya Nevka River, building 1)

– Lilac promenade in Pavlovsky Park

The holiday - a walk is planned at the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution “State Museum-Reserve “Pavlovsk” at the address: Pavlovsk, Sadovaya Street, building 20, and will take place from 12 to 18:00

– International festival of non-mass sports

Such an unusual event will take place in the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg from 12:00 to 21:00

– St. Petersburg Ball of Nationalities

This festive event will take place on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island from 13:00 to 17:00

In addition, residents and guests of St. Petersburg will enjoy the following festive events:

14.00, May 27. City Day - Foundation Day of St. Petersburg, concert of students and teachers of the children's art school on Petrogradskaya
St. Petersburg GBOU DOD "St. Petersburg Children's Art School on Petrogradskaya")Andrey Petrov Square, Kamennoostrovsky Ave., 28-30)
14.00, May 27. Secrets of the old house, a thematic tour of the museum and the surrounding area of ​​the Bread Museum
SPb State Budgetary Institution "St. Petersburg Museum of Bread", st. Mikhailova, 2 litera A
15.00-17.00, May 27. 1000 facts about St. Petersburg, quiz as part of the celebration of City Day - the Founding Day of St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution “Central City Public Library named after. V.V. Mayakovsky" (Grazhdansky Ave., 121/100)
16.00, May 27. Concert of graduates of the children's music school named after. A.K. Glazunov, dedicated to City Day
SPB GBOU DOD "Children's Music School named after. A.K.Glazunov", st. Sedova, 32
17.00, May 27. Brilliant St. Petersburg, concert
St. Petersburg GBKDU “House of Folk Art and Leisure”, St. Petersburg RO All-Russian public organization of disabled people “All-Russian Society of the Deaf” (Galernaya St., 55)
19.00, May 27. Listen, Leningrad, a concert of soloists of the St. Petersburg Concert, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.P. Solovyov-Sedoy
St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution "State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg", (Moika River embankment, 20)
19.00, May 27. I love you, Petra creation, concert of the Tchaikovsky Center for Musical Culture
FGBUK "St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic named after. D.D. Shostakovich", Great Hall (Mikhailovskaya St., 2)
19.00, May 27. Dedication to the city, concert of the jazz group "Leningrad Dixieland" conducted by Oleg Kuvaitsev, concert of the ensemble "Ars-Nova" conducted by Pyotr Kornev, dedicated to City Day - the Founding Day of St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution "Philharmonic of Jazz Music" (Zagorodny Ave., 27)
21.00, May 27. Classics on Dvortsovaya, festive concert, as part of City Day - the Founding Day of St. Petersburg
Palace Square
10.00, May 28. Green Marathon, family sports and entertainment event
Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg
11.00-18.00, May 28. I paint St. Petersburg, open air, dedicated to City Day - the Day of the Foundation of St. Petersburg
Federal State Budgetary Institution "State Russian Museum", Summer Garden
St. Petersburg City Day 2017: full program of events
12.00, May 28. Great Bicycle Parade – 2017
start: Ligovsky Ave. in alignment with the street. Zhukovsky, finish: Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg
18.00, May 28. Charity evening by composer E.N. Artemyev with the participation of stars of the classical and opera stages and Russian rock performers
Federal State Budgetary Institution "State Academic Mariinsky Theatre", Mariinsky - 2 (Dekabristov St., 34)
18.00, May 28. “My city St. Petersburg, you are the most beautiful” literary and musical evening
St. Petersburg State Public Institution “House of the Writer”, (Zvenigorodskaya St., 22)
19.00, May 31. Frank Wildhorn's original concert dedicated to City Day - St. Petersburg Day.
St. Petersburg State Autonomous Institution "St. Petersburg State Theater of Musical Comedy", Kamennoostrovsky Ave., 42
19.30, May 31. Palaces of St. Petersburg, opening concert of the XXV International Music Festival
Federal State Budgetary Institution “State Hermitage”, Armorial Hall, Palace Square, 2
16.00, June 2. “Elagin Park!”, International Street Theater Festival
SPB GBUK "Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after. S.M.Kirova", Elagin Island

Concert “Classics on Dvortsovaya”
World opera stars will perform on the main square of the city on May 27 at 21.00: Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Marcelo Alvarez, Sonya Yoncheva, Daniel De Niese, Veronica Dzhioeva, Alexey Tatarintsev, Sergei Skorokhodov and Yulia Matochkina. The concert will be accompanied by the Mikhailovsky Theater Symphony Orchestra.

Tulip Festival
A traditional tulip festival will be held on Elagin Island on May 27–28 from 13.00 to 18.00. This year, 140 thousand bulbs were planted in the Central Park of Culture and Culture, which occupy more than 2 thousand square meters. m. In total, there are 120 varieties of flowers.

Festival “Salt Town – City of Masters”
On May 27, the Stieglitz Academy will hold an open-air arts and crafts festival. More than 20 master classes will be held in Solyany Lane. In the open air, in front of spectators, artists will create works of art. Blacksmiths, glassblowers, book graphic artists, painters, restorers, sculptors, ceramists, fashion designers and designers of various disciplines demonstrate to festival guests creative processes that are usually hidden from the “uninitiated” within the walls of the academy’s workshops. Everyone will be able to take part in numerous master classes. In parallel with the main program of the festival, a music, fair and exhibition area will operate on Solyany Lane.

Dachshund parade
At noon on May 27, a traditional parade of dachshunds will take place on Vasilyevsky Island in the garden of the Academy of Arts. More than a hundred four-legged animals, together with their owners, will walk along a special podium to famous musical compositions.
In addition, the program includes art master classes, compilation of a poetry collection, and performances by the ensemble “Dancing Sausages” and “Zveropochta”. For the first time, as part of the Tax Parade, all dogs will leave an “autograph” - a paw print on a special canvas. In the future, this “painting masterpiece” will be sold at auction, and all proceeds will go to help dachshunds and their mestizos who are in trouble and find themselves on the street.

City festival of Slavic culture “Slavic Fair”
On May 27 and 28, the “Slavic Fair” festival will be held in the “Dolgoe Lake” park (the intersection of Olkhovaya St. and Korolev Ave.). Guests of the festival will enjoy numerous master classes on folk crafts, fair fun, and a colorful theater and concert program. The vocal and instrumental ensemble “Pesnyary”, the groups “Melnitsa”, “Ivan Kupala”, “Terem-Quartet”, “Ottava Yo” will perform on the main stage of the festival. A total of 20 groups from 13 regions will perform on two stages of the festival. Grand opening of the festival - May 26 at 18.00

Holiday “City for everyone!”
On May 28, in the Mikhailovsky Garden, soloists of the Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky theaters will perform for the townspeople, and a symphony orchestra will play. There will also be master classes, sports competitions and a mass flash mob, the participants of which will try their hand at the genre of sign singing for the first time.

Great bike parade
At 11.00 on May 28, cyclists will start from the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall to make a forced march towards the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. By the time they arrive, a large festive program will be launched here with competitions and performances by artists.
The “Big Bike Parade” will be held in St. Petersburg on May 28 (more details)

Ice Cream Festival For! ice cream games
On May 27, the XXII Ice Cream Festival will be held on Ostrovsky Square - the most delicious holiday in St. Petersburg. From 11:00 to 21:00 on Ostrovsky Square, residents and guests of the city will be able to enjoy their favorite delicacy and take part in the entertainment program.

Sand sculpture festival in St. Petersburg: what will be shown to the audience
This year the theme of the festival, which starts on May 27 at the Peter and Paul Fortress, is “Great Russia.” In total, 20 sculptures will be presented here, depicting about 70 recognizable images - from Peter I to the mascots of the 2014 Olympic Games.

Open air "I paint St. Petersburg"
On May 28, from 11.00 to 18.00, 300 easels will be installed on the central alley of the Summer Garden, on which everyone will be able to express themselves in an artistic impulse.

Other events on City Day:
10.00 – laying flowers at the Bronze Horseman on Senate Square.
11.30 – solemn ceremony at the Sovereign Bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
13.00 – a column of representatives of multinational St. Petersburg will pass along Nevsky Prospect to Birzhevaya Square. Then on the arrow V.O. A festive concert will take place.
A “Parade of Champions” will be held along Nevsky: SKA will celebrate the championship
Honoring the winners of the Gagarin Cup will take place on May 28. The festive procession as part of the Parade of Champions will begin at 16.00 at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station. Fans will be able to watch the broadcast on the big screen on Palace Square (more details).

On the night of May 27-28, the St. Petersburg metro will operate around the clock. On weekends, citizens and guests of the city will be able to use night buses. On the night of May 26-27, transport will follow routes Nos. 1M, 2M, 3M, 4M, 5M, duplicating metro lines. Also, buses No. 8, 12, 56, 77, 80, 93, 106, 114, 130, 142, 154 will deliver passengers to open metro stations. The interval from 0:00 to 06:00 will be 30 minutes.