Bronze Horseman
St. Petersburg, pl. Senatskaya 
The Bronze Horseman on Senate Square is not the only monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, but, undoubtedly, the most famous, long-established symbol of the Northern Capital. Already at the end of the 18th century, many urban legends and anecdotes were associated with him, and in the 19th century the Bronze Horseman liked to be mentioned in his works by the poets of that time.
Alexander Column
St. Petersburg, pl. Dvortsovaya 
One of the most famous monuments of St. Petersburg, the Alexander Column is familiar to each of us literally from the school benches. From the light hand of your beloved Pushkin, everyone began to call the monument - the Alexandrian Pillar, although, in fact, this is a poetic refinement.
Green Belt of Glory
Leningrad Region, St. Petersburg 
Probably, there is no other monument on the planet that would stretch for two hundred kilometers. Its obelisks, stelae, memorial gardens and groves are installed and planted in honor of those who stood to death near the city walls. Monuments of the Green Belt of Glory perpetuated the heroism of the defenders of the Pulkovo heights and the steadfastness of the soldiers.
Cruiser Aurora"
St. Petersburg, nab. Petrovskaya 
One of the first museum ships in St. Petersburg was the cruiser "Aurora", who was Russia's defender in two wars - in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and in the First World War of 1914-1918, in which he participated in the brigade cruisers of the Baltic Fleet.
Monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad
St. Petersburg, pl. Victory 
The grand opening of the memorial took place on May 9, 1975, on the 30th anniversary of the Victory. The compositional center of the ensemble is a 48-meter granite obelisk, at the base of which there is a sculptural group "Winners".
Nose of Major Kovalev
St. Petersburg, Prospect Voznesensky, 36 
The nose of Major Kovalev can be called the most unusual monument in St. Petersburg. In the Northern capital there are monuments to animals - cats and dogs, birds and horses. Monuments have been created for people of different professions - a janitor and policeman, a lantern and a photographer.
Monument to Begemot
St. Petersburg, nab. University, d. 7-9 
Many do not know that there is a monument to Behemoth in St. Petersburg, which is located in the courtyard of the philological faculty located at the state university. An interesting idea, which came to life, belonged to the dean of the faculty, Sergei Bogdanov.
Monument to Catherine II in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, pl. Ostrovsky 
The granite of various breeds for the pedestal of the monument was brought by water from the Karelian Isthmus to the Neva embankment near the Summer Garden, and from there it was brought to the place by special portable railway made at the San Galli plant. Simultaneously with the construction of the monument there were works on the creation of the square.
Monument to the hare
St. Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress 
Bunny, who escaped from the flood, "sits", like a talisman, near the Ioannovsky Bridge leading to the Peter and Paul Fortress. According to legend, during the flood, a small bunny got into the boot of Tsar Peter and thus escaped.
Monument to Konka
St. Petersburg, about. Vasilievsky 
After nearly 100 years, the horse returned to St. Petersburg. On October 27, 2004, opposite the Vasileostrovskaya metro station, a model of the 1872-1878 model horse was installed. All its details were restored according to the drawings of the Putilov Plant, found in the Central Historical Archive.
Monument to Nicholas I
St. Petersburg, pl. Isaakievskaya 
The monument to Nicholas I was opened shortly after the death of the emperor, in 1859. The author of the project was Montferrand, the architect of St. Isaac's Cathedral. The monument to Nicholas I is set on the same axis as the famous Bronze Horseman, shared only by St. Isaac's Cathedral.
Monument to the lantern
St. Petersburg, st. Odessa 
A cast-iron monument to the lantern depicts a man sitting on a sidewalk fence with a ladder and a rope in his hands. Delivered at the very place where the world's first street electric light was installed in 1873, leaving the St. Petersburg lanterners out of work.
Rostral columns
St. Petersburg, pl. Stock exchange 
Today it is impossible to imagine the ensemble of the Spit of the Vasilyevsky Island without these columns. On the trunks of the columns, metal images of the rostrum-nasal parts of the ships are strengthened, hence their name. Earlier, the columns served as beacons for ships going to the once trading port.
Sphinxes at the University Embankment
St. Petersburg, nab. University 
As you know, St. Petersburg adorns many sculptures of various animals, birds and mythological creatures. These are, first of all, lions, horses, eagles, griffins, and of course, sphinxes. In St. Petersburg there are fourteen sphinxes.
Chizhik-Pyzhik
St. Petersburg, nab. R. Fontanka, bridge Engineering 
Monument Chizhiku-Pyzhik installed on the Fontanka near the water. Petersburgers immediately fell in love with the little hero - in the city soon came the belief that if a small coin thrown to the bronze paws of a small bird would be held on a small area where a tiger cub is sitting, the wish will come true.
The total number of sculptures, monuments and monuments in St. Petersburg is huge. Some of them perpetuated the feat of the Leningraders in the war years, others preserve the memory of outstanding people of the past: emperors, talented architects, great generals, poets and writers. Others are called upon to protect history lessons from forgetfulness, for example, a monument to victims of political repressions on Troitskaya Square tells about sad events in post-war Russia.
A number of city monuments remind that St. Petersburg is the cradle of the Russian fleet: a monument to the battleship "Emperor Alexander III" in the square near the St. Nicholas Cathedral, a bronze figure of Nicky with a ship in his hand on a granite pedestal near the building of the Nakhimov school dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet. @.In the past 20 years, a real boom is experiencing decorative sculpture - the city was flooded with all kinds of monuments: Ostap Bender, Brave soldier Shveyk, photographer, Okhtan milkman, policeman; frozen in the streets of St. Petersburg black cat and his girlfriend Vasilisa (st .Small Sadovaya), stray dog Gavryusha, begemoticha Tonya .