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The frost-free period in the city lasts on average for about 135 days. Despite St. Petersburg's northern location, its winters are warmer than Moscow's due to the Gulf of Finland and some Gulf Stream influence from Scandinavian winds that can bring temperature slightly above freezing. The city also has a slightly warmer climate than its suburbs.
St. Petersburg's position on a latitude of about 60° N, less than seven degrees to the south of the Arctic Circle, leads to a huge variation in day length across seasons, ranging from 5 h 53 min to 18 h 50 min, and causes twilight to last all night in early summer, from June to mid-July – the celebrated phenomenon known as the white nights.
Maximov was born in St. Petersburg and was educated at the local Gymnasium (1897) before graduating from the St. Petersburg University in 1902. He worked for some time in the forestry institute before going in 1910 to Java and working at the Bogor botanical garden. He returned to obtain a master's degree on frost resistance in 1913 and then ...
In 1994 the painting was displayed in Pont-Audemer, France, at the exhibition of works of masters of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. [7] It was reproduced in the exhibition catalog. In 2012 Russian Winter. Hoarfrost was exhibited in "Manezh" Central Exhibition Hall on Art Fair devoted to 80th Anniversary of Saint-Petersburg Union of Artists.
The Ice House (St. Petersburg) (1739–1740), St. Petersburg, Russia; Ice Palace (Saint Petersburg), an arena in St. Petersburg; Ice Palace (Cherepovets), an arena in Cherepovets; Ice Palace Salavat Yulaev, an arena in Ufa; CSKA Ice Palace, in Moscow; Neftekhimik Ice Palace, in Nizhnekamsk; Romazan Ice Sports Palace, in Magnitogorsk; Vityaz Ice ...
Traditionally in very cold winters on the Neva ice installations were built as fortresses for the training of soldiers and for the entertainment of the residents. In the winter of 1739/40 with temperatures of −40 °C, A.D. Tatishchev, general and chief of the St. Petersburg police, before the construction of the ice palace.
On 12 July 1763, Archbishop Gavriil Kremenetsky of St Petersburg consecrated the Grand Church in the name of the Image of Our Saviour Not-Made-by-Hands. This eponymous icon, painted by Feodor Ukhtomsky in 1693 and lavishly decorated with gold and diamonds, was placed near the sanctuary .
Vista through the Summer Garden towards the Summer Palace, 1716. The Summer Garden (Russian: Летний сад, romanized: Letny sad) is a historic public garden that occupies an eponymous island between the Neva, Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great.