Views of Leningrad

June 1984. 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 (from left to right in the background), the Main Admiralty building, built in the early 18th century by architects Ivan Kuzmich Korobov and Andreyan Dmitrievich Zakharov (on the right in the background), the Rostral Column, built in the early 19th century by architect Jean Thomas de Thomon, and the Spit of Vasilievsky Island from the Spit of Zayachy Island. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Yuri Belinsky, Igor Zotin/TASS