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Saint Petersburg

federal city and former capital of Russia

🇷🇺 Russia · 59.9500, 30.3167

Saint Petersburg is recorded as a filming location for 22 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Saint Petersburg, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 14 more.

9 productions were filmed at 29 places inside Saint Petersburg rather than at Saint Petersburg itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The film is the only international version filmed entirely in Russia, at locations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.”
Anna Karenina (1997) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Saint Petersburg

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Saint Petersburg as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

  • Battleship Potemkin 1925
  • Downfall 2004
    “Hirschbiegel filmed in the cities of Berlin, Munich, and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with a run-down industrial district along the Obvodny Canal used to portray the historical setting in Berlin.” Wikipedia
  • Reds 1981
    “Other English locations included Frensham Ponds in Surrey, which stood in for Provincetown, the Smeaton Room of the Institution of Civil Engineers at One Great George Street for the Liberal Club meeting room in Portland, and the interior of Lancaster House for that of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.” Wikipedia
  • Hitman 2007
    “A second unit also shot in locations including London, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, and Cape Town.” Wikipedia
  • Stalingrad 2013
    “Colossal scenery was constructed especially for Stalingrad filming at the former factory "Krasny Treugolnik" in St. Petersburg, and the Third North Fort near Kronstadt.” Wikipedia
  • Anastasia 1956
    “The Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Paris, which was a center of worship for Russian aristocrats and other émigrés from St. Petersburg in the city, is featured in one of the early scenes.” Wikipedia
  • The Russia House 1990
    “The Russia House was filmed from October to December 1989, mostly on location in Moscow and Leningrad.” Wikipedia
  • Major Grom: Plague Doctor 2021
  • Fort Boyard 1990–
  • Hard to Be a God 2013
  • Players 2012
  • In Transit 2008
  • Professor Mamlock 1938
  • Dhaam Dhoom 2008
    “The film's crew originally had problems maintaining a visa to film in St. Petersburg, Russia, and decided to relocate the scenes to Prague in the Czech Republic; however, they eventually obtained visas to shoot in Russia.” Wikipedia

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Saint Petersburg

9 productions shot at 29 places inside Saint Petersburg, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Saint Petersburg itself.

17 more places are inside Saint Petersburg — see them on the map.

Named here by Saint Petersburg’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Saint Petersburg, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Saint Petersburg, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Saint Petersburg?

45 productions are recorded as filmed in Saint Petersburg, 9 of them at places inside it, including GoldenEye (1995), Anna Karenina (1997) and Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974). 14 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Saint Petersburg?

GoldenEye (1995), covered by 68 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Saint Petersburg?

Saint Petersburg is in Russia, at 59.9500, 30.3167. The day trip guide for Saint Petersburg lists 33 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Saint Petersburg?

Obvodny Canal, Hermitage Museum, Peter and Paul Fortress, Summer Garden and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Saint Petersburg — 33 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.