Place

The place

ECITE 2007 is going to take place in the part of Saint-Petersburg well-known for a large number of educational and scientific organizations. It is located in the North of the city and is approx. 30-45 min distance from the historical center of the city (on the metro or by car).

All the classes and jams are going to happen in a large Gym building that is surrounded by a park (Park Sosnovka) and a small lake (Olginsky lake). This lake and the corresponded beach is a popular place of recreation for the city dwellers and are taken care of on a regular bases (the sand and the water is clean and good for swimming). There is a playground on the beach and the kid's laughter is a constant background there. Park Sosnovka also has a good maintenance and there are a lot of sport facilities

We will have an access to a total of 6 studios: (2x450 m2 + 2x250 m2 + a dojo studio with a soft floor). Plus another large room (400 m2) for sleeping and daytime rest. Every studio will have an access to changing rooms and restrooms including showers and sauna.

250 m2 studio
450 m2 studio

450 m2 studio

bar, there we will put some computers with Internet

the wall of the place

The easiest way to get to the place is by metro. The closest metro station is called “Politechnicheskaya” (Poli-techni-cheskaya). There are as well busses and mini-busses that would take you right to the doors of the conference.

The address of the place is: prospect Raevskogo 16, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
The sport center named by V.Alexeev.

Russia

For those who have never been top Russia and Saint-Petersburg we recommend visiting some external websites (listed bellow). You will find a lot of useful information there which might be very handy. Especially it relates to buying food, traveling on a train, using public
transportation, communication and emergency situations.

http://www.petersburg-russia.com/
http://www.travel.spb.ru/

St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg is the youngest of the large European cities. There is no other place in the world where you'll find so many neo-classicist, eclecticist, moderne and retrospectivist works of architecture. The historical center of St. Petersburg and the palace and park ensembles of its suburbs have all been included in UNESCO's world heritage lists.

St. Petersburg is the European champion in terms of bridges, and a silver medalist in the canal and islands stakes. The number of excursion boats, motorboats and small craft is growing every year, and failing to view the city from the water is unforgivable.

St. Petersburg is the largest city in Europe that isn't a capital. From the beginning of the 19th Century, it has remained the fourth largest city in Europe in terms of population, always behind Paris and London, but often leading or being led by Berlin, Vienna, Naples and Moscow. With a current population of 4.7 million, it remains in fourth position, trailing Paris (9.5 million), Moscow (9.3 million) and London (7.6 million).

The transfer of the capital to Moscow in 1918 had its benefits for St. Petersburg, allowing the uniquely high proportion of old buildings in the center to be preserved. During the Soviet era, Leningrad was considered to be a provincial city, and shortages in financing allowed masterpieces of socialist architecture to be constructed here. There wasn't even enough dynamite to demolish the city's churches, and new housing construction was carried out on the outskirts of the city. As a result, a vast number of residential stone buildings from the pre-Revolutionary period were preserved — about 8,000 in total. From Obvodny Canal to the Bolshaya Nevka River, and from the Alexandro-Nevskaya Lavra to the trading port, the city remains almost as it was in 1917.

The loss of its status as a capital has given Petersburgers a unique outlook on the world. In general, they are poorer than Muscovites, and not as unreservedly welcoming; the pace of life here is less intensive. On the other hand, however, in no other city will you find such a vast quantity of connoisseurs of local landmarks and legends. This is a city of bookworms, cranks, erudites and unacknowledged geniuses. Dovlatov wrote that “Leningrad possesses the painful complex of a spiritual center that has been somewhat deprived of its administrative rights. The combination of inferiority and superiority makes him a very sarcastic gentleman.” The arrogance and incomprehensible haughtiness of the local inhabitants, with some justification, irritates the Muscovites. Nevertheless, without their snobbery, backslapping, and morbid sense of their own personal worth, Petersburgers really wouldn't be themselves

Vizit these sites for more information http://petersburgcity.com/ (pictures are from this site)