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Markets in St.Petersburg

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toiq Just Starting Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Tallinn, Estonia	Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:20 pm    Post subject: Markets in St.Petersburg Hello, I would like to know if there is a big market in St.Petersburg, where antique items are sold. I?m not interested in antique shops situated in the center and are ment for the tourists. The same kind of antique staff, that is sold in the Old Arbat in Moscow, but in St petes and for a more reasonable price. Also I woluld like to know which markets, are the most popular ones amongst the local people. Hope you get my point and I'm thankful for every answer, toiq
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katja.jkl Just Starting Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Finland	Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:41 am    Post subject: Junona - Юнона I am not sure if this is what you are lookin for, but: We visited this month on a big market place called Юнона. There was lots of old stuff, sold by locals (?) Some of them even antique, I guess? There is also lots of electronics and CD:s. I bought this great keyboard with cyrillic fonts and many unique cd:s russian popmusic. The best way to get there is to go by metro to Автово-station and from there a is yet a little drive by bus. We visited also another market-place wich was near metrostation Звездная. There was sold mainly clothes. and day after tomorrow I go by train from Finland to Saint Petersburg again. Yes!
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Camrade VIP Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 516 Location: Санкт-Петербург	Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:46 am    Post subject: 2katja.jkl Yeah, "Yunona" it's a great place And amongst local people popular thing is a hypermarket such as "Okey", "Lenta" and so on... They've replaced traditional markets.
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Anna Lounge Lizard Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 91 Location: St. Petersburg, Russia	Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:53 pm    Post subject: Traditional marketsare still there, places like Kuznechny or Sytny are simply crowded.
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katja.jkl Just Starting Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Finland	Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:29 pm    Post subject: Can you tell Something about those marketplaces? Are they big and what kind of stuff is sold there. And by the way, are the marketplaces and stores normally open this saturday and sunday? We will be there tomorrow evening
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Anna Lounge Lizard Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 91 Location: St. Petersburg, Russia	Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:56 pm    Post subject: The markets in question are rather big, mostly foodstuffs are sold there, you can also find hosehold stuff there. The most busy days are Saturday and Sunday
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katja.jkl Just Starting Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Finland	Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:18 pm    Post subject: New years day Our trip to Saint Petes is ower We had a great time, mostly in the Vasiljevski ostrov. There were many nice little restaurants and so on. We did not have so much time for shopping, but visited though the market place in ladoshki voksal. The stores were mainly closed on new years day and in the hotel breakfast started at 11.30 ! But that was okay for us .
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kiwiguy_os Lounge Lizard Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:39 pm    Post subject: Where in St Petes are the decent markets located? I am not talking about the overpriced crappy ones in the city centre like the one by the church of spilled blood. I am talking about the ones the average russians would go and visit. I am looking for a few t-shirts and stuff like that for myself and friends back in Aussie. All the city ones seem to have is matrioska's and stuff like that and I got enough of those things on my last trip. Can one of you locals like camrade or anna recommend the good joints. What I am looking for would be the address, what metro stop/bus route it is near/on and what sort of stuff they contain. Cheers Dave
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AliceFromMoscow WayToRussified Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 411	Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:36 pm    Post subject: at such markets they sell low quality stuff from turkey and china... i wonder who would want such things
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Anna Lounge Lizard Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 91 Location: St. Petersburg, Russia	Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:57 pm    Post subject: You can try Aprashka, but the quality is real low, AliceFromMoscow is absolutely right
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Keoki Lounge Lizard Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 117 Location: Moscow	Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:35 pm    Post subject: Anna wrote: You can try Aprashka, but the quality is real low, AliceFromMoscow is absolutely right Just beware - Aprashka (Apraksin Dvor, just to the south and east of Gostinny Dvor) is known for having even more pickpockets than most markets.
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