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Palace Square
tourist highlight Palace Square · Saint Petersburg, Russia · 1944-01-01
Palace Square (Russian: Дворцо́вая пло́щадь, romanized: Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, IPA: [dvɐrˈtsovəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ]), connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire.
The record
| Date | 1944-01-01 |
|---|---|
| Place | Palace Square, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Coordinates | 59.93917, 30.31583 (landmark-level precision) |
| Scope | Local interest |
| Sources | en.wikipedia · Wikidata Q1132624 |
| Added | 2026-08-20 · source: wikipedia-en |
Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.
Finding photographs
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- The reference article — its own illustrations, and its citations to archives.
- Image search filtered to reusable licences — useful for tracing which institution holds a picture.
- National and municipal archives of Russia, and the picture desks of newspapers published there at the time.
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Footage
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Time layers at this place
One place, several moments in time. This location has 10 recorded time layers between 1920 and 2023 — slide through them:
- 1920 — Gardens of the Winter Palace
- 1928 — Winter Palace
- 1937 — Pevchesky Bridge
- 1941 — The siege of Leningrad begins
- 1944 — Palace Square this page
- 1992 — Hermitage Museum
- 1993 — General Staff Building (Saint Petersburg)
- 2008 — Western Military District
- 2017 — 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro attack
- 2023 — 2023 Saint Petersburg bombing
Harvested from a regional source. This entry came out of en.wikipedia rather than being written here, which is why it is short and why it is marked as needing a check. It is published as a lead for someone who knows the place: fill it in.
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