Question by 下载 华军…what does this mean?: How often do you see a minority in St.Petersburg?
The reason why I want to go to Moscow is because I never heard of a foreign person in St.petersburg. Most of them are in Moscow. Sure there is many embassies in St.Petersburg there is hardly any people there.
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Answer by Edward N.
St. Petersburg has many minorities, but not as many as Moscow of course. I would recommend being downtown if a person is a minority or walk around in groups. Unfortunately, there are racist organizations that are all over the city that look for victims especially in the night time.
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Arsan Lupin says
If you never heard of a foreign person visiting St. Petersburg, you need your hearing checked by a healthcare professional. There were as many tourists as there are residents in St. Petersburg last year – 4,5 million. Half of them were foreign nationals.
St. Petersburg is a major cruise ship destination – both from The Baltic Sea and from Moscow via the River Neva. It's so popular that the Baltic ships – which normally stay only one day at a destination city – stay at Piter for two days.
There are also a lot of tourists who fly in and either stay at one of the hotels or – like me – rent a vacation apartment from one of the many agencies that offer this tourist service.
Also, there are no embassies in St. Petersburg; only consulates. An embassy would exist only in a nation's capital city. The only exception is New York City – home of the United Nations.
Lastly: why would you want to visit a place BECAUSE of the number of foreign tourists it gets? I would think you would look for places that the other tourists don't know about. If you want to visit a place BECAUSE of the number of tourists it receives, go visit Florida – destination of over 97 million tourists this year.
tubbs says
My cousin went to St. Petersburg (she's from Ghana, West Africa) and my russian friend says there is alot of people in big cities such as St. Petersburg. And the colleges are alos full of them as well….
so big cities are common with minorites
Vrarvist says
Well tourists will come but if your talking about permanent, well you can find some dead black people and mexicans on the streets that are missing lungs. Stay out of Russia minorities and keep Slavic territory for slavs.
Slava T says
It's very strange that you haven't heard of foreigners in St. Petersburg. The city centre is crowded with foreign tourists especially in the summer. You can find Finns who come for cheap booze any time there 🙂