Views of Leningrad

USSR. Leningrad. View of the Neva River, the State Hermitage Museum building located in the Winter Palace, built in the mid-18th century by architect Varfolomey Varfolomeevich Rastrelli, the Winter Palace garden, the Admiralty Embankment, the Main Admiralty building, built in the early 18th century by architects Ivan Kuzmich Korobov and Andreyan Dmitrievich Zakharov, St Isaac's Cathedral, built in the mid-19th century by architect Auguste de Montferrand (from left to right in the background), the rostral columns, built in the early 19th century by architect Jean Thomas de Thomon, and the spit of Vasilievsky Island from Zayachy Island. Yuri Belinsky/TASS