Images from St. Petersburg, 2002In March 2002, the Danish School of Journalism sent a group of international student journalists to St. Petersburg. I tagged along as a web journalism instructor, and had a life-changing two weeks in Russia. The whole experience was tremendous fun. |
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The Tupolev-134 which we took from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg. Note the old-school glass "bomber" nose. |
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The view from the front of our dorm building, looking southeast down Korablestroyteley. This is the view that greeted us every morning. There's a bus stop on the right from which we'd travel to the Primorskaya Metro station, and from there to the rest of the city. |
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View from our floor of the dorm, overlooking Korablestroyteley. One block further down the street is the building with the Kirov's turrets in the courtyard (see below). |
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Part of the Bolshaya Neva, frozen solid in the -10 degree weather. |
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One of the large drainage canals which criss-cross Vasilevsky Island. Vasilevsky was a swamp until it was drained in the 1950s. |
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Surface level of Primorskaya in good weather. |
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An unfortunately dim photo of the inside of part of the Primorskaya Metro station, looking down one of the escalator shafts. It is impossible to portray the massive scale of the Metro stations in pictures. Doubling as nuclear-resistant bomb shelters, the stations are built 120 meters underground. |
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The common area on the eighth floor of the dorm. There was a party every night here, where we would drink pivo and vodka, listen to music and talk about the experiences of the day. |
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Klaus from Denmark, inside the dorm. |
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David, from Spain. |
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Ole, from Denmark. |
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Tourist photo of the statue of Peter the Great. The horse is meant to be rearing forward into battle, and trampling a serpent representing Treason. However, there are some who say that the horse is actually rearing AWAY from the city's centre. They also point out that the serpent at the base of the statue is depicted as still alive. |
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Shot from the dome catwalk of St. Isaac's Cathedral, looking towards the Bolshaya Neva. |
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Shot from the dome catwalk of St. Isaac's Cathedral, looking towards the Admiralty (the golden tower in the centre-left). |
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Shot from the dome catwalk of St. Isaac's Cathedral, looking towards Mariinsky. |
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The Mariinsky Palace, now St. Petersburg's city hall. |
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Shot from Vasilevsky Island on the west bank of the Neva, showing a crossroads on Universitetskaya. |
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The frozen Gulf of Finland during the day. Those aren't waves, they're ice ridges. The ice stretched all the way to the horizon. |