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- ↑ National Pushkin Museum Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum Museum
- ↑ Joseph Brodsky museum - to open in 2015
- ↑ Ostap Bender
- 1 2 St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
- ↑ Kamchatka Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today
- ↑ "The State Museum of the Political History of Russia". Archived from the original on 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ↑ Admiral Stepan Makarov's Memorial Study - Russian homepage Archived 2012-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Admiral Stepan Makarov's Memorial Study - info in Russian
- ↑ Winter Palace of Peter the Great Archived 2012-08-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Raznochinniy Petersburg
- ↑ The State Historical and Memorial Museum of Smolny
- ↑ The State Historical and Memorial Museum of Smolny
- ↑ Sergei Kirov Memorial Apartment Museum
- ↑ www.russianmuseums.info Archived 2011-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Anatoly Sobchak Museum of the Foundation of Democracy in Modern Russia
- ↑ Russian Museum - Stroganov Palace Archived 2013-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "The Museum of St. Petersburg Art | МИСП".
- ↑ Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum - Russian info
- ↑ Hermitage Museum - General Staff Building's East Wing Archived 2012-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Hermitage Museum - Menshikov Palace [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Hermitage Museum - Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory Archived 2012-08-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Hermitage Museum - Winter Palace of Peter the Great Archived 2012-08-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Peter and Paul Fortress
- ↑ The Museum of Hygiene at the St. Petersburg City Center of Preventive Medicine
- ↑ Count Shuvalov Palace - Russian homepage
- 1 2 The Universe of Water Archived 2012-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "Horsepower Museum". Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ↑ Civil Aviation Museum of Civil Aviation Academy - Russian homepage
- ↑ Central Museum of Railway Transport - russianmuseums.info
- ↑ Central Museum of Railway Transport - railroad.ru Archived 2012-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Krasin (1917 icebreaker) - Russian website
- ↑ Museum of Submarine Armaments - Russian homepage Archived 2012-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Museum of Submarine Armaments - info in Russian
- ↑ "Alexandrinsky Theatre Endowment (Fund) Museum of Russian Drama". Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ "... and Muses never stopped" - Russian homepage
- 1 2 Deryabkin
- 1 2 Gramophone and Samovar Museums - Russian info
- ↑ First World War I museum in Russia opens near St. Petersburg. Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines
- 1 2 Peterhof Palace
- 1 2 www.russianmuseums.info
- ↑ The Children’s Center of Historical Education "Bolotnaya Street 13" Archived 2013-04-17 at archive.today
- ↑ Children's City Anichkov Palace Krestovskiy Island Bio-Eco Labs
- ↑ LabirintUm- Facebook
- ↑ LabirintUm- homepage
- ↑ Leningrad Zoo
- ↑ Saint Petersburg Dolls Museum
- ↑ Umnikum Archived 2013-02-09 at archive.today
- ↑ Nicholas Roerich
- ↑ Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams
- 1 2 The State Museum of the History of Religion
- ↑ The State Museum of the History of Religion - Facebook
- ↑ Saint Isaac's Cathedral
- ↑ Beer Brewing Museum at Baltica Brewery - homepage in Russian
- ↑ Beer Brewing Museum at Baltica Brewery - photos
- ↑ Beer Brewing Museum at Stepan Razin Brewery - homepage in Russian Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Bread Museum - homepage in Russian
- ↑ Russian Vodka Museum
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