St Petersburg Nightlife

St Petersburg has all the nightlife you would expect from a historic European capital. Depending on your tastes, you can dress up for the ballet, weep at the opera, get transported to imperial Russia in a Chekhov play, or dance until the early hours at a host of pumping bars, clubs and live music venues.

Tickets and programmes for concerts and shows are available directly from the venues, but you can buy discounted tickets from the theatre ticket kiosks or kassas located throughout the city (open 1000-1900). You’ll find lots of these along Nevsky Prospekt, around the junction with Mikhailovskaya ulitsa.

For upcoming events, check the weekly listings in the St Petersburg Times (www.sptimes.ru). St Petersburg is a popular stop for touring rock bands, so look out for posters around the city centre advertising upcoming gigs. Foreign visitors are officially charged higher rates than Russians and ticket collectors are reluctant to admit foreigners with Russian-price tickets.

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