Shopping is an essential part of every trip abroad. When you come to St. Petersburg as a traveler on business or pleasure, you will certainly need to buy souvenirs for your relatives and friends.
St. Petersburg abounds in stores offering a great variety of goods starting from handmade crafts and souvenirs to exotic fruit and vegetables. Vast shopping malls are becoming commonplace.
Shopping along Nevskiy Prospect makes you feel more like a native St. Petersburger and offers the best variety of stores in the city. Whatever you need or want, or never imagined you should have, can be found in one of many stores located on St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare.
You’ll find a good selection of goods and services at the city’s department stores. Like any other major city, St. Petersburg has items from Russia, Europe and around the world which decorate its department stores shelves.
Find a gift for a friend at one of the many souvenir stores in town where you can find everything from an original watercolor by a talented local artist or traditional Russian gifts of Khokhloma, Gzhel, Palekh lacquer miniatures, Pavlovo-Posad headscarves, Matryoshka dolls, Dymkovo toys, Zhostovo trays, Fedoskino miniatures, Filimonov toys, Bogorodsky toys and much more.
