Social Programme

You are welcome to join our cultural activities, which were specially designed and created to introduce our guests to St Petersburg, its all beauty and magnificence. By joining our trips you will not only see but also inside visit main place of interest, like Cathedrals, Palaces, the Hermitage and many others. You will do a full day trips to the out-of-town summer residences of Russian Tsars — Peterhof and Pushkin. And of course, you will have an unforgettable boat trip along canals of the Venice of North, as usually St Petersburg is called.

Please, you are welcome to sign up for the tours trough Conference On-Line Services in the Section "Social program" or in case of any difficulties, please, feel free to contact Monomax by e-mail: ICDS25@onlinereg.ru

In order to secure your seat-in-bus order for the tour we kindly ask you to pre-pay it in advance what will completely guarantee your participation in our cultural program.

The only condition of our tour materialization is minimum number of persons attending which is 12 pax. Please do your bookings as the number of seats is limited!

The deadline for booking is July, 06.

The deadline for prepayment is July, 13.

Date	Tour	Duration	Comments	Price, RUR
20.07.2009 Monday	City of Peter the Great	09:00—16:00 7 hours	General city tour by bus Visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress Visit to the St Isaak's Cathedral Boat trip down the canals LUNCH: not included START: Conference Venue END: city center	1700
21.07.2009 Tuesday	Full day tour to Peterhof	09:30—17:30 8 hours	Roundtrip to Peterhof by hydrofoil Visit to Grand Palace Walking tour around Lower Park Visit to one of the small Palaces LUNCH: included START: Conference Venue END: city center	3000
22.07.2009 Wednesday	The State Hermitage	09:00—15:00 6 hours	Roundtrip to the Hermitage by bus Visit to the Hermitage (main exhibitions) LUNCH: not included START: Conference Venue END: Conference Venue	1000
	Conference City tour	14:30—17:30 3 hours	Orientation city tour by bus Photo-stops at main sights LUNCH: not included START: Conference Venue END: city center	Included in reg. fee
23.07.2009 Thursday	Full day tour to Pushkin	09:00—17:00 8 hours	Roundtrip to Pushkin by bus Visit to Catherine Palace Walking tour around Park Visit souvenir market LUNCH: included START: Conference Venue END: Conference Venue	2000
	Conference Gala Dinner	—	20:00	Included in reg. fee
24.07.2009 Friday	Imperial Palaces	09:00—15:00 6 hours	Visit to the Menshikov Palace Visit to the Yusupov Palace (with Rasputin's Rooms) LUNCH: not included START: Conference Venue END: Conference Venue	1900

IMPORTANT:

• when tours end in the city center, the drop off point is metro station "Gostiny Dvor/Nevskiy Prospect"
• duration of the tours includes time to get from Conference Venue and return back (where indicated) and excursion time.

To see the underground railway map, please, click here.