Between Kitay-gorod and the Boulevard Ring

1 View up Zabelina street. The House-on-basements marks its crossing with Solyanka Street (right) and Spasoglinischevskii Lane (left). In a distance there's the belltower of St. Vladimir's Church

2 The inner yard of the House-on-basements: a truly Sankt Petersburg look

3 Moscow Choral Sinagogue in Spasoglinischevskii Lane. Near skyline is the compound of President Administration. You can also spot one of elevators of the "Shaft 731"

4 Petroverigskii Lane opening to Evangelical-Lutheran Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul

4 Evangelical-Lutheran Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul

5 View of St. John's Nunnery from Starosadskii Lane

6 View down Zabelina Street to All Saints' Church and the House of Steel-workers. On the right is the monument to O.Mandelshtam

6 St. Vladimir's Church and towers of St. John's Nunnery

7 Domes of St. Vladimir's Church

7 View downhill: the belltower of St. Vladimir's Church, a tower of St John's Nunnery, All Saints' Church, in a distance - the dome of Christ The Saviour Cathedral

8 The former residence of Abakumov, the Stalin's Minister of State Security, in Kolpachnyi Lane

9 The mansion of baron Knop in Kolpachnyi Lane

9 A before-WW2 Civil Defence Readiness sign on the mansion of baron Knop

10 Church of the Three Holy Hierarchs and Khitrovskii Lane

10 Church of the Three Holy Hierarchs

11 Khitrovskaya Square

12 A Stalin-style house at the corner of Podkolokol'nyi Lane and Pokrovskii Boulevard

12A Peasant Women and a Worker

13 Yauzskie Vorota square and the Ustyinskii Bridge