Main article: Economy of Saint Petersburg The Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum is a major Russian investment forum. By 1716 the Swiss Italian Domenico Trezzini had elaborated a project whereby the city centre would be on Vasilyevsky Island and shaped by a rectangular grid of canals.

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It was not until 2004 that the first high bridge across the Neva, which does not need to be drawn, Big Obukhovsky Bridge, was opened. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Meanwhile, economic conditions started to deteriorate as the country tried to adapt to major changes.It is on the Neva's southern bank at the head of the Fontanka and is famous for its cast iron railing and marble sculptures. At the end of the 17th century, Peter the Great, who was interested in seafaring and maritime affairs, wanted Russia to gain a seaport to trade with the rest of Europe. After that the city acquired a new descriptive name, "the city of three revolutions", [44] referring to the three major developments in the political history of Russia of the early 20th century.

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The first Russian railway was built here in 1837, and since then the city's transport infrastructure has kept pace with the city's growth.The atoms can be modeled as points on a lattice, and one can explore the effect of symmetry operations that include rotations about a point, reflections about a symmetry planes, and translations (movements of all the points by the same amount). During the NHL lockout, stars Ilya Kovalchuk, Sergei Bobrovsky and Vladimir Tarasenko also played for the team.

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In 1995, a northern section of the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro was cut off by underground flooding, creating a major obstacle to the city development for almost ten years.A complex system of riverports on both banks of the Neva River are interconnected with the system of seaports, thus making Saint Petersburg the main link between the Baltic Sea and the rest of Russia through the Volga–Baltic Waterway.