> St Petersburg is beautiful and quite lovely. You've been to the city center. The outskirts are dull even by Russian standards. Because of the soil there, the

> St Petersburg is beautiful and quite lovely. You've been to the city center. The outskirts are dull even by Russian standards. Because of the soil there, they tend to build high-rise residential buildings spaced by 500m to 1km. Streets run in-between, there are occasional malls and that's it.