In sync with the worldwide trend, St. Petersburg has adopted a new mode of transportation. Since the end of May and continuing through the summer, cycle rickshaws have been rolling the streets of St Petersburg and Petrodvorets.

Foreign tourists may have less trouble on the streets of St. Petersburg now when an “Angels Service” begins to patrol the city, according to City Hall.

Having spotted Angels in “I Can Help” T-shirts, tourists will be able to approach them and receive qualified help on how to get to places, where to shop and what to do in emergency situations.

The project is part of the St. Petersburg 2005-2010 development program, on the completion of which the city hopes to receive 5 million visitors every year, said Nana Gvichiya, deputy director of the city’s tourist information center.

Last Thursday the State Hermitage Museum opened perhaps the most “dynamic” exhibition ever held at the museum.

“Experiments in Visual Kineticism” features around 50 works of “kinetic” art in which motion or the appearance of motion is incorporated into the work. Although the genre has roots in the modernist 1920s, the heyday of kinetic art was the 1960s and 1970s with an example of it winning the first prize at the Venice Biennale in 1968.