St. Petersburg

Technology Institute in St. Petersburg, the area where a deadly terrorist attack took place this week, is on the approach to the city center from the airport, at a major intersection. I remember it well because when I was there I tested my Cyrillic on the façade’s engraved “Tekhnologichesky Institut” and was proud that I could read it easily. Russia has a bloody history of modern terrorism, most of it stemming from ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus, primarily in Chechnya. St. Petersburg’s is the only airport I’ve ever been to where baggage is checked at the front door, regardless of whether one is boarding a plane. Parts of the subway, the site of Monday’s attack, are works of art. The first Metro lines, built in […]