Friday, April 8, 2011

Sunday Cafe: A Walk from Finland Station to Metro Lesnaya




On March 20, 2011, the Sunday Cafe Research & Redevelopment Group walked from the Finland Station to Lesnaya metro station in Saint Petersburg.

Here you can plunge into the disturbing and mostly depressing sights/sites we saw along the way.

This is a map of the route we took.

And here you can download twenty pages of random but extremely telling research notes (sundaycafe-20mar11-kraevedzapiski-revised - in Russian) about some of what we saw.


Sunday Cafe: A Walk from Obvodny Canal to Moscow Gates


On April 3, 2011, the Sunday Cafe Research & Redevelopment Group met at Obvodny Canal metro station in Saint Petersburg and took a three-hour stroll to Moskovskye Vorota (Moscow Gates) metro station. To see what they saw along the way and find out what it all meant, go here for photos and commentary (in Russian & English). And here is the route map: