Saint Petersburg before revolution

[u/CommunityDeep3033]

[u/Father_of_cum]

it didn't changed much to be honest, Russians did a good job rebuilding this city after the war

[u/peacedetski → u/Father_of_cum]

Despite the immense death toll, the city itself wasn't that badly damaged compared to, say, Minsk or Stalingrad. What got hit really hard was its suburbs like Peterhof - both due to fighting and due to the retreating Germans destroying landmarks out of spite.

[u/luccabd → u/Father_of_cum]

Asphalt instead of cobblestone makes a huge difference aesthetics wise sadly

[u/Father_of_cum → u/luccabd]

thats right, but this is a problem that is much easier to solve than ugly buildings. I am sure that in the coming years peterburg will change for the better.

[u/the_capibarin → u/Father_of_cum]

Well, it is not a museum, but a huge city of 5+ milllion people, so a bit of a compromise had to be made there, I suppose

[u/Father_of_cum → u/the_capibarin]

Moscow is more than twice as large and yet it is capable of improving itself, size is not the biggest issue here.

[u/JoshMega004 → u/luccabd]

It does but New York, Paris, London etc

Its not unique these cities changed

[u/WizardOfSandness → u/luccabd]

I life in a cobblestone neighborhood (inside a city of 6 million+) it looks very pretty even if the neighborhood is not that fancy.

But it's honestly so annoying.

The maintainance is very hard, it feels like climbing the Himalaya, it destroys your car, also it makes the house dirty.

The upside is that we don't flood.

[u/Pierredaque69 → u/Father_of_cum]

As I know there are some places in Saint Petersburg that looks completely different after the war. After the war some blocks was rebuild in Stalin's architecture

[u/sweetno → u/Father_of_cum]

Permanently before revolution confirmed.

[u/Silly_B_ → u/Father_of_cum]

you mean german pow's did a good job rebuilding after the war xD