The murder of Mikhail Vladislavovich Manevich, Vice Governor of Saint Petersburg, economist, and political figure, took place on August 18, 1997, in Saint Petersburg.

On December 25, 2020, the St. Petersburg court delivered a verdict in the case of 64-year-old historian Oleg Sokolov, who killed and dismembered his young lover, graduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko.

On November 20, 1998, Galina Starovoitova, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, was shot dead in Saint Petersburg. This happened in the entrance of the building at 91 Griboyedov Canal Embankment.

Decree of Elizabeth Petrovna: "Since, according to the investigations and testimonies of the caught pimps and prostitutes, some of the immoral women they reveal are hiding, and, as is known, around St. Petersburg on various islands and places, and some have retreated to Kronstadt, therefore Her Imperial Majesty has decreed: those hiding immoral women and girls, both foreigners and Russians, are to be searched for, caught, and brought to the main police station, and from there sent with a note to the Kalinin House."

The slang word "gopnik" does not originate from the gangster-filled 90s, as one might be tempted to assume. In Dahl's dictionary, for example, the word "gop" means a jump or a strike; in Ozhegov's dictionary, there is an example with the phrase "gop-company"; and in the large explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, "gopnik" is simply a person from the lower social strata or just a bum. So what does the word "gopnik" really mean, and where did it come from?

In St. Petersburg city folklore, Lenka Panteleev was and remains an attractive character—similar to Mishka Yaponchik in Odessa (only there was no Babel to celebrate him). However, even in literature, the raider from the Neva banks left his mark, becoming the hero of a poem and "giving" his name as a pseudonym to a famous writer.

On January 9, 2000, one of the leaders of the brewing company "Baltika" – Ilya Vaisman – was killed in Saint Petersburg. He was shot in his apartment in the city center, on English Avenue. For several years, Ilya Vaisman held the position of Director of Economics and Finance in the company.

There are still no definitive answers to the question of who and why killed Sergey Mironovich Kirov; doubt is passed down from generation to generation that the truth will ever be established. Party-prosecutorial commissions and additional investigations were created, which literally drowned in a monstrous swamp of lies and falsifications. Only now, for the first time in the entire history of the "Kirov case," real steps have been taken to conduct objective forensic medical and criminalistic examinations. In December 2004, at the request of the Federal Protective Service of the Russian Federation, specialists from the 111th Center for Forensic Medical and Criminalistic Examinations of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, with the assistance of employees of the S.M. Kirov Museum and with the participation of FSO staff, conducted special studies. Their results are becoming available to the general public.

Sennaya Square is a square in the center of Saint Petersburg, located at the intersection of Moskovsky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street. Since August 20, 1739, it was called Bolshaya Square. In the 18th century, the extensive territory of the square (stretching to the Fontanka River) was divided into separate sections, named after the goods sold there: Konnaya Square — near Grivtsov Lane; Sennaya Square — near Obukhovsky Bridge; Sennaya and Drovyanaya Square. Starting from 1764, the name Sennaya Square spread to the entire square. On December 15, 1952, the square was renamed Peace Square, and on July 1, 1992, its former name was restored.

"Vyazemskaya Lavra" or "the belly of Petersburg" — a slum quarter near Sennaya Square, existing from the late 18th century until the 1920s. The very name Vyazemskaya Lavra is a sarcastic toponym, since "lavra" means a male monastery of the highest rank, while in Vyazemskaya Lavra completely unmonastic rules prevailed. It was named Vyazemskaya after the Vyazemsky family, on whose land the lavra arose. It gained a notorious reputation as a refuge for robbers and inhabitants of the social bottom and lasted until the 1920s. As of 2023, the territory of the former lavra is partially occupied by the shopping center "Sennoy Market."

Malinnik was a building that existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Saint Petersburg, housing a tavern and brothels. It was located at building No. 5 (modern address; the postal address in the 19th century was Sennaya Square, building No. 3). City authorities made several attempts to close the establishment, but after mass raids, the venues in the building would reopen and continue operating. The brothels were eliminated after the October Revolution. The building survived during the Soviet era and was later significantly rebuilt and extended by two floors, becoming part of a residential complex in the Stalinist neoclassical style.