Saint Petersburg

Gostiny Dvor

Гостиный Двор

This is a vast bazaar, the city's oldest shopping centre, and one of the first shopping arcades in the world. Dating to the mid-18th century. The name means "Merchant Yard", as its old role was to provide both shops and housing to merchants from far away. It sells almost everything from PlayStations to Saint Petersburg Vodka. On the north side is a decent store for second-hand photo equipment selling cameras and lenses (Nikon, Canon, Sigma etc.). The prices of goods are the highest in St.Petersburg. Sprawling for over one kilometer and embracing the area of 53,000 m², the indoor complex of more than 100 shops took twenty-eight years to construct. Building works commenced in 1757 to an elaborate design by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, but that subsequently was discarded in favour of a less expensive and more functional Neoclassical design submitted by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe (1729–1800). The next century, Gostiny Dvor was continuously augmented, resulting in ten indoor streets and as many as 178 shops by the 20th century. By that time, the Gostiny Dvor had lost its popularity to the more fashionable Passage and New Passage on the Nevsky Prospekt nearby. During the post-World War II reconstructions, its inner walls were demolished and a huge shopping mall came into being. This massive 18th-century structure got a face-lift and entered the 21st century as one of the most fashionable shopping centres in Eastern Europe. A nearby station of Saint Petersburg Metro takes its name from Gostiny Dvor.

Daily 10:00-23:00

Loft Project ETAGI

Culture centre in five-storey former bakery building with several exhibition spaces (combined surface around 0.5 ha). Contemporary art exhibitions, concerts, events (flea markets). Parts of Etagi loft are two art galleries, four exhibitions spaces, a cafe (with great interior and outside terrace), a hostel and a bookshop.

Novobirzhevoy Gostiny Dvor

A square yellow building with arcades built in 1800-1815 as a market, now home to several departments of Saint Petersburg State University.

Apraksin Dvor

Апраксин двор

The Apraksin Market (Apraksin Dvor) is perfect for people watching, but keep your purse and camera close since it is a favorite of both shoppers and pickpockets. You can find almost anything here.

Udelnaya Market

A combined market and a flea market, selling mostly clothes and shoes but some shops also sell books and mobile phones and other small electronics. Items are sold both in the small white numbered buildings that hold more permanent shops and the more casual vendors are selling the stuff on the street.

Market at Bolshevikov

prospekt Pyatiletok, 1А

Andreevsky Market

Андреевский

Сытный рынок

Сытнинская площадь 3-5

Closed · opens 8 am

Мальцевский рынок

52 улица Некрасова

Closed · opens 9 am

Торжковский рынок

20 Торжковская улица

Closed · opens 8 am

Василеостровский рынок

16/14 Большой проспект В.О.

Closed · opens 9 am

Ямской

53 улица Марата

Kuznechny market

3 Кузнечный переулок

Closed · opens 8 am·Built 1927

Кузнечный рынок

Кузнечный переулок 3

Московский рынок

12 улица Решетникова

Closed · opens 9 am

Сельскохозяйственный рынок

Closed · opens 9 am·Wheelchair accessible

Конкурент

Closed · opens 9 am

Полюстровский рынок

45 Полюстровский проспект

Closed · opens 8 am

Ярмарка ремесленной слободы

Closed · opens 10 am

Кировский рынок

54 проспект Стачек

Сенной рынок

ТК "Карельский"