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The market at Udelnaya is the most famous flea market in Russia.

Fermskoye Highway, Building 41, Block 8, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197341

The Udelny Market (or simply "Udelka") is one of the unique spots in St. Petersburg. It is simultaneously a second-hand store, a flea market, and a bazaar where, like in Greece, you can find everything or almost everything.
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
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Historically, the market has been located in this place for quite a long time; there are preserved photographs of spontaneous trade from the 1920s. During the Soviet era, a park was located on the site of the market. After the collapse of the USSR and the establishment of a market economy, the place became in demand for the construction of a shopping complex. In 2009, the construction of the trading rows called TK "Udelny" was completed here. The unorganized market was pushed north, towards Poklonnogorskaya Street.
The largest flea market in St. Petersburg is located at the Udelnaya metro station, which is why it is called "Udelka." The market at Udelnaya is the most famous flea market in Russia. The flea market at Udelnaya, covering an area of more than 12,000 square meters, is situated on the strip between Fermskoye Highway and the railway. Here, on the outskirts of Petersburg, professional antique hunters and those simply wishing to take a trip into the recent past literally roam. You can find unique attributes of bygone eras here; collectors can pick up rare coins, and ordinary people can indulge the child within and buy some trinket that reminds them of those carefree times.
It is believed that the history of active trade in this area began at the beginning of the 20th century. Since the construction of the Udelnaya railway station in 1870, this area was popular among summer residents, and, naturally, locals would come to the arriving trains to sell their harvest. However, in the 20th century, a spontaneous market began to form here.
The "heyday" of local trade fell on the 1990s and the well-known era of shortages. In those difficult times, you could sell anything that was lying around at Udelnaya. The official opening date of the market as we know it and that still operates today is considered to be January 1, 2000.
There is so much antiquity and beauty here—from clothing to silverware, from car parts to Soviet chandeliers, posters, and really, everything you can imagine! You can walk around for hours admiring it all, and you don’t even have to buy anything. 
The market is sort of divided into three parts – a "Chinese-style" flea market, similar to "Aprashka," rows of used goods like a second-hand store, and the most interesting part, which everyone calls the "flea market." In the first part, you can buy inexpensive new goods.
The second part looks very dubious – piles of "junk" that have been worn and washed, now piled up on the ground, and people rummage through it looking for something valuable.
The third part sometimes looks like a dump, but where things are neatly laid out and somewhat organized, it looks intriguing, and it is here that you can find something truly interesting and worthwhile.
If you don’t rush and carefully examine the goods, you can buy quite decent things at a ridiculous price. Photo: zen.yandex.ru
The flea market at Udelnaya is known far beyond the borders of St. Petersburg; it has even been included by reputable foreign publications in the list of places that foreign tourists must visit.
In 2012, Forbes ranked the Udelny market second in the world flea market rankings (Tokyo’s Togo Shrine was first). In 2016, the British publication The Guardian even included the flea market near the Udelnaya metro station in its recommended list of places for foreigners to visit. At first glance, it seems that "Udelka" is really a time machine, only it transports you to the realities of a post-Soviet market of the early 1990s. Here, junk dealers’ stalls neighbor piles of various junk sold right off the ground. 

The pricing principles at the Udelny market are a separate mystery. It would seem that badges, Soviet coins, and banknotes—pride items for collectors—should cost a pretty penny, but they are traded practically for nothing. Shiny round coins with Lenin or Olympic rings lie on every third stall.
Residents renovate and throw out grandma’s Soviet tea sets and books? Old, rotting USSR maps are piled behind a cabinet in a school geography classroom? "Black diggers" have found German helmets from World War II in the swamps of the Leningrad region? A stack of the "Leningradskaya Pravda" newspaper from 1986 was discovered in a summer house attic? A war veteran grandfather left trophy watches and binoculars as an inheritance? It seems all this sooner or later ends up at "Udelka."
Officially, the market operates on weekends from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., but in fact, some trading pavilions and stalls operate on weekdays as well. However, if you want to see it "in all its glory," it’s better to plan your trip for Saturday or Sunday. On Sunday, the narrow rows of the flea market at the Udelnaya metro station in St. Petersburg are packed. Among the idly wandering and curious tourists, people who clearly know what they are hunting for scurry about: usually interior designers, resellers, or "professional" collectors. Some are not shy about bargaining with sellers and ask to cut the price in half—"for a wholesale purchase." 
The deeper you go into the belly of the market, the trashier the trading conditions become. In the farthest corner of "Udelka," sellers don’t bother and lay out goods right on the ground. The flea market even has a website: https: блоха.com, where you can search for what you need and arrange a direct meeting with the seller so they can hold the item for you. 
Sources:
https://huunghivietnga.thoidai.com.vn/detail-article-28173.html
https://kudago.com/spb/place/udelka/

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Smolny Cathedral (Resurrection Cathedral of All Educational Institutions, Smolny Cathedral, Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Word of All Educational Institutions, Resurrection of Christ Smolny Cathedral)

4 Kvarengi Lane, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191060

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Petersburg: Unusual and Interesting Houses
Great Architects: Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
Smolny Cathedral (Resurrection Cathedral of All Educational Institutions of Smolny, Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Word of All Educational Institutions, Resurrection of Christ Smolny Cathedral) is an Orthodox church in the Central District of Saint Petersburg. It is part of the architectural ensemble of the Smolny Monastery. Historically, the Resurrection Smolny Cathedral has been the church of educational institutions of Saint Petersburg, a church for students; therefore, the main focus of the clergy and laity of the church is the spiritual and moral education of youth. From 1990 to 2015, it served as a concert venue for classical music.
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Stories of Sennaya Square – a place with a tragic and criminal past

Spasskaya, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Criminal Petersburg
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.
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Stories of Sennaya Square - Vyazemskaya Lavra

W8F9+X7 Admiralteysky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Criminal Petersburg
"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."
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Stories of Sennaya Square – "Malinnik in Petersburg," or where the criminal slang word "malina" originated.

Sennaya Square, 5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190031

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Criminal Petersburg
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.
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Stories of Sennaya Square: The Cholera Riot in Petersburg

Brinko Lane, 4, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190068

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Unrest among townspeople during the cholera epidemic of 1830–1831. Causes — dissatisfaction with the government-imposed travel bans (quarantines and armed cordons) and rumors that doctors and officials were deliberately poisoning the common people, that the police were burying people alive. Succumbing to panic, "agitated crowds smashed police stations and state hospitals, killed officials, officers, and noble landlords."
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The story of how trams used to pass through the house

Ligovsky Ave., 50, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191036

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
A well-known building through which a tram used to pass. If you didn't know, you would never guess.
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KV-85 - the last tank of this series

pr. Stachek, 108A, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 198207

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
On a granite pedestal stands a KV-85 tank, produced by the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant during the Great Patriotic War. Behind it is a preserved pillbox with the inscription 1941–1945. This is one of two known surviving examples of this model. Another tank, representing a KV-1s with an 85mm gun in a standard turret, is located in Kubinka.
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The Morozov Treasure in the Leningrad Gostiny Dvor

Nevsky Ave., 35, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191023

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Petersburg: Stories of Nevsky Prospect
Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region: The City of Treasures - Hoards
On October 26, 1965, an amazing event took place in Leningrad... On that day, in room No. 87 at the corner of Sadovaya and Lomonosovskaya lines of the Gostiny Dvor, builders from the 33rd Directorate of the Repair Trust of Glavleningradstroy were working: Nadezhda Biryukova and Sofya Komova. They dismantled a transverse wall that separated two rooms and began leveling the floor, preparing it for concrete pouring. Near a tiled stove, they discovered 8 non-standard, unusually heavy bricks. One of the workers had the idea to clean the heavy brick from dirt, and it turned out that under the bricks were hidden 8 gold bars, each weighing 16 kg. The total weight amounted to 128 kg. The workers received the due material reward from the state.
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The house where the history of the Romanov dynasty ended

12 Millionnaya St., Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
The apartment in house No. 12 on Millionnaya Street belonged to Prince Pavel Pavlovich Putyatin. On March 3, 1917, a meeting took place there that influenced the fate of the monarchy in Russia. Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich and a delegation of politicians, including Milyukov, Guchkov, Nabokov (father of the writer V. V. Nabokov), Rodzyanko (chairman of the State Duma), Kerensky, Shulgin, Prince Lvov (the first head of the Provisional Government), and others, held negotiations here. The reason for this meeting was Nicholas II's abdication of the throne in favor of his brother Mikhail.
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The Legend of the Bobrinsky Family Treasure or the Treasures of Catherine II

Galernaya St., 60, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000

Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region: The City of Treasures - Hoards
1930. The OGPU receives a strange letter from abroad. Someone named Bobrinsky offers to provide the Soviet government with information about the location of a family treasure. In exchange, he wants to receive half of its value! The tempting letter is immediately put under investigation, especially since it concerns the descendants of Alexei Bobrinsky – the illegitimate son of Catherine II and Grigory Orlov. Surely, caring for the future of her child, the crowned mother provided him with a rich dowry. But where? In the Bobrinsky palace in St. Petersburg, gifted to the founder of the family in 1797? Or in the Bogoroditsk estate near Tula, built specifically for Alexei Bobrinsky? Or maybe, by the time the letter was received, there were no treasures of the empress left at all? After all, unlike his descendants, Alexei Bobrinsky himself was known as a reckless bon vivant and spendthrift.
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