Genii mesta, rozhdaiushchii geniev. - Burovskii Andrei Mikhailovich

In St. Petersburg it becomes real what will seem incredible in any other place
. Flooding is a domestic phenomenon. The Northern Lights - almost every winter, as well as rain on New Year's Eve. The appearance of the ghost is not even very surprising. Petersburgers are rather surprised by the lack of miracles
. Petersburg can be loved or disliked. But few people managed to ignore the city. There are almost no indifferent to St. Petersburg; Only a few were able to touch him and continue to live as if the meeting had not happened.
Petersburg awakens the imagination, makes you think faster. St. Petersburg is home to a huge number of innovations in Russia and throughout Europe. Here were created theories that define the modern scientific picture of the world, here made scientific and technical discoveries and developments that underpin modern civilization. All this was made possible by the unique qualities of St. Petersburg as a place of development - the unity of the socio-historical environment and the territory it occupied.
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