Shopping in St.-Petersburg is the whole art. In fact city till now still a window to the Europe. The center of purchases is the Neva prospectus where the basic shops are located, boutiques and shopping centers. Here one of the most popular:
- Bolshoy Gostinniy Dom built in 1761—1785 on Neva prospect, 35, it not only has incorporated experience of construction of constructions of similar type, but also has served as the sample for many trading buildings with the open galleries, constructed in other cities of Russia. The same idea has received the further 
development and in architecture of Petersburg, repeating in Nikolsky, Апраксином the markets, in a number of other constructions. In general it hardly probable not ideal type of a trading building for Petersburg with its original, sometimes unpredictable climatic conditions. It is possible even to tell, that architecture of the Petersburg drawing rooms of court yard in general, and the main thing from them, in particular, have to a certain extent defined the natural phenomena — rains, snowfalls, cold and cloudy days. To buy in Gostinniy Dom in XIX century everything was possible, that was made in then Russia and behind its limits; not without reason spoke, that Gostiniy the court yard always «set the fashion» and since then a little that has changed. All of you as can practically find any goods of popular Russian and foreign marks. Today Bolshoy Gostiniy the Court yard is present trading city, whence it is difficult to leave without purchase where will help to make a correct choice where it is possible to spend time not only with advantage, but also pleasure. Here production more than three thousand Russian and foreign firms is presented. Bolshoy Gostiniy the Court yard is considered universal not only on assortment, but also under the prices. Gostiniy dvor has little by little become and some kind of sight of capital, as the Summer garden or the Battlefield, moreover — hardly probable not the main center of carrying out of leisure, some kind of a place of entertainment.
- Gallery Grandee Palace on Neva prospect, 44 — the Gallery of elite shops 
first in Petersburg which has collected under the roof more than 100 boutiques of world trade marks, restaurant, cafe-bars, bank, office premises and a parking. Grandee Palace — the exclusive project of a modern European level which are not having analogues in St.-Petersburg which is called to become the center of a fashionable life of city.
-Trading entertaining Complex PEAK — as one of the most visited places in St.-Petersburg, in fact in a complex really to find everything, everything to a shower, from clothes up to products, from entertainments for the smallest up to huge cinema of a complex.
