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| Managing Director NFTC Sandeep Marwah At St. Petersburg |
St. Petersburg (Russia):
Renowned Educationist Dr. Sandeep Marwah Chancellor of AAFT University and
Managing Director of National Federation Of Tourism And Transport Cooperatives
of India Limited visited St. Petersburg the cultural Capital of Russia.
“Saint Petersburg is Russia's
second-largest city after Moscow, with population of 6.2 million . It is
an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea and called the Cultural Capital of Russia,” Dr. Sandeep Marwah informed
to the press at Hotel Sofitel, Voznesensky Prospekt.
Saint
Petersburg is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list as an area with 36
historical architectural complexes and around 4000 outstanding individual
monuments of architecture, history and culture
The
city has 221 museums, 2000 libraries, more than 80 theatres, 100 concert
organizations, 45 galleries and exhibition halls, 62 cinemas and around 80
other cultural establishments. Every year the city hosts around 100 festivals
and various competitions of art and culture, including more than 50
international ones.
Around 8 million tourists from all over the World visited
St. Petersburg last financial year.The visit was also sponsored by Indo Russia Film And Cultural Forum.
