The manual is intended to introduce foreign students to one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and the world - St. Petersburg, which is rightly called the cultural capital of Russia. It contains texts dedicated to the most important cultural and historical events in the life of the city. A clear and precise system of pretext, pretext and post-textual exercises already at the early stage of learning Russian as a foreign language allows students to enter the educational and natural communication. For classroom and independent work of students who speak Russian in the amount of the basic level of general knowledge (A2).