Let’s be a time traveler and travel through the historic Leningrad and St. Petersburg to 1992 to see what St. Petersburg was like in 1992.

Let us be a time traveler, through the historic Leningrad and St. Petersburg , go to 1992 and see what St. Petersburg was like in 1992.

• htmlOn November 2, the planned economy began to be abandoned and market and economic reforms began. As a result, Russian inflation hit a record 250% in January!
• The country and its people gained unprecedented freedom - almost everything was allowed: any trade, assembly, freedom of speech and any religious opinion. From the ruins of the Soviet Union, oligarchs emerged and they worked to carve up what was left - the first organized crime syndicate in Russia's modern history was formed.

Let's go to St. Petersburg in 1992 and see what happened there!

Senaya Plaza in 1992

Senaya Plaza

Juno Market Entrance, then proudly known as the Commercial Club.

Juno Market Entrance

Prospekt Stalls in the square near Prosveshcheniya metro station.

At this time, people's attitude towards the royal family also changed. In the past, the royal family was the "enemy of the people". In 1992, the royal family was rehabilitated and became a martyr of the Soviet regime. Photo taken at Kazan Cathedral .

Kazan Cathedral commemorates members of the royal family

Near the Dostoevsky Museum on Kuznechny Lane. Please pay attention to the Mercedes-Benz cars on the road. At that time, a large number of high-end foreign cars appeared on the streets of St. Petersburg. During that difficult time, there were many people who thrived in the new world.

The Dostoevsky Museum and the Mercedes-Benz on the road

The traffic police at the Art Square. The traffic police in Moscow are hard to describe! If you are a Muscovite, or a Chinese in Moscow, the traffic police here will teach you how to behave in minutes.

Piazza Rastrelli LIAZ-677 Bus No. 134.

The bus at Rastrelli Square

One of the first billboards was installed on the Pulkovo highway. Philip Advertising is also here.

Highway roadside billboards

In St. Petersburg over the years, many very unusual forms of public transportation have appeared. For example, this Renault SC10. In 1991, a group of buses arrived in St. Petersburg from France as humanitarian aid. The bus travels along the streets of Garkavy Border Guard.

Street Renault Cars

Congested rail transit road, this is Bolshaya Zelenina Street. To his right is now the Chkalovskaya metro station, the tracks have been removed.

Bolshaya Zelenina Street

The tram network at that time was like a spider web and collisions were common, as below two trams collided on Obukhovskaya Oborona Boulevard. As one of the female drivers only had 2 months of experience and was in the last month of pregnancy! Fortunately, she escaped with only one broken leg.

Obukhovskaya Oborona Tram crash

Vasileostrovsky market Boris Yeltsin Yeltsin promised in front of reporters that everyone can live well.

Yeltsin at the market

Tulskaya and Yaroslavskaya streets lining up to receive milk

Crowds receiving milk

Nevsky Prospekt Nevsky Prospekt. The years have passed but little has changed.

Queue for ice cream at Gostiny Dvor.

Ice Cream Fanatics

Another sign of the times is a strike. Continuous delays in wage payments have led to drivers going on strike. The car stopped.

The strike in the parking lot

A symbol of the era, a huge Volvo billboard on the street. In 1992, Russia's first Volvo 4S store opened at No. 33 Bolshevikov Avenue, St. Petersburg.

Volvo advertisement on the street

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