According to UNESCO, St. Petersburg ranks among the ten cities of the world most attractive for tourists.
Its magnificent architecture and the abundance of rivers and canals are the reason the city is often called 'The Northern Venice'.
If taking suburbs into account, there are 64 rivers, 48 canals, 170 km of embankments, about 100 islands and 800 bridges.
There are 221 museums, 2000 libraries, more than 80 theatres, 100 concert organizations, 45 galleries and exhibit halls,
62 cinema halls, 80 recreation centres, etc in St. Petersburg. More than 100 contests and festivals in various spheres
of culture (including more than 50 international ones) are organized in St.Petersburg annually.
St Petersburg plays host to as many as 100 cultural and art festivals every year, including 50 international ones.
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February 23, 1928: Defender of the Fatherland Day, Russia.
Defender of the Fatherland Day
is observed in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and some other countries of CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).
February 23, 1988: Russian (Soviet) figure skaters Natalya Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin won XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Renata Litvinova is a Russian actress, director, and screenwriter. She was born to Russian mother and Tatar father.
Renata's mother loved cinema and this influenced the daughter's choice of profession.
In 1984 Renata entered Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGUK ), the story department.
She made an acting debut in "Uvlechenia" ("Passions"), directed by Kira Muratova which won best picture at the
Nika Awards in 1994. Her directing debut was the film "Net smerti dlya menya" ("There is no death for me").
But she was widely known as an actress after TV mini-series "Granitsa. Tayozhnyy roman" (2001) and TV projects of NTV and MUZTV.
Litvinova is titled a self-made woman and she made a way from the script writer to a director of the own film
"Boginya: kak ya polyubila" ("The Goddess: How I Fell in Love").
She is also the author of films about popular rock singer Zemfira - "Zelyonyy teatr v Zemfire" (2008)
and "Zemfira" (2007) and directed music video of the singer.
Litvinova gained an international recognition as a film director and was the members of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival
in 2002, the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2008 and Moscow International Film Festival in 2007.
She lives and works in Moscow.
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