Shopping

St. Petersburg has a large number of stores offering a variety of traditional goods, including quality lacquered boxes, stocking dolls, colorful linens, or the famous Matrushka dolls. Shopping along the city's festive main thoroughfare, Nevsky Prospekt, offers the best variety of stores in the city. Bolshoi Prospekt on Vasilyevsky Island also offers a comparatively good selection of stores.

Many stores accept credit cards, and all stores accept only rubles that you can buy at a number of conveniently located currency exchange points (obmenni punkti) throughout the city. You're likely to get the best exchange rates on Nevsky Prospekt, but be sure to bring along your passport. Without a passport, you can not change money.