Drone Videos of St. Petersburg

Take in some spectacular aerial views of St. Petersburg, Russia in this compilation video, which was produced using highlights from the "St. Petersburg, Russia by Drone" collection.  The video features amazing bird's eye views of St. Isaac's Cathedral, Palace Square, Lakhta Center, and more.

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Top contributor Timelab.pro's won a second annual Drone Video Award for this masterpiece of a drone video from St. Petersburg, Russia.  The video was shot during the long summer nights when the sun barely sets on this city created on the order of Peter the Great over three centuries ago.  Watch it to see some amazing aerial views of many of the city's top sights, including the St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Stock Exchange, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the Port of St. Petersburg, the Kazan Cathedral, and more.  

Top contributor vitaliy.karpovich put together this stunning DVOW Finalist drone video of St. Petersburg, Russia as the country's second-largest city and erstwhile capital transitioned from winter to spring.  Featured locations include (in order of first appearance): the crescent-shaped Kazan Cathedral; the Admiralty Building; the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange Rostral Columns; Saint Isaac's Cathedral; the Bronze Horseman statue in Senate Square; the Lomsonov Bridge over the Fontanka River; and more. 

Prepare to be astounded by this stunning wintertime drone video of St. Petersburg, Russia by vitaliy.karpovich.  The video opens with an epic shot of the old Stock Exchange and its two red Rastral Columns on Vasilevsky Island.  Then it moves on to the magnificent star-shaped Peter and Paul Fortress, the gold-domed St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Palace square and its Winter Palace, and other highlights from the erstwhile Russian capital city on the Neva River. This video was a DVOW nominee in May 2019

Former DVOW Winner sinaysky brings us this excellent drone video from St. Petersburg, Russia as the New Year approaches.  The video opens with a shot of a skating rink, with the gold-domed St. Isaac's Cathedral in the background.  At the :16 mark, you'll see Palace Square, the city's central public space, followed by a shot of the eastern tip of Vasilyievsky Island.  At :44, there's a shot across the Neva River of the Peter & Paul Fortress.  At 1:26, you'll see the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood.  

Top contributor Vitaliy.karpovich has created some of the finest drone videos of St. Petersburg, Russia.  In this piece, which was picked as a DVOW Finalist, you'll be treated to some amazing wintertime views of the great city on the Neva River.  The video opens with a shot looking east toward the Admiralty Building and beyond that to Palace Square.  At about the :30 there's a great fly-by of St. Isaacs Cathedral, followed by an epic twilight shot of the old Stock Exchange building, Kazan Cathedral (:40), and the Peterhof Palace (:48).

AirVuz contributor Flycam24 brings us this stunning Christmastime drone video from St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city and erstwhile capital.  The video was shot over Palace Square, the city's largest outdoor square and beating heart.  Named after the Winter Palace (now the Hermitage Museum), Palace Square was the scene of some of the most traumatic events in Russian history, including the Bloody Sunday massacre of anti-Tsarist protesters in 1905 and some of the key events of the two revolutions of 1917.   

AirVuz contributor cdrugger brings us this excellent drone video of St. Petersburg, Russia.  Starting at about the 1:12 mark, there are some great shots of the small island Fort Alexander.   At about 1:33, you'll see Palace Square, and at about 1:50 there's a great shot of the old Stock Exchange building.  At around the 2:49 mark, you'll fly past the great Peter and Paul Fortress, and at the 3:40 mark there's a shot looking towards Lakhta Center from the mouth of the Neva River.  The video concludes with views of a fireworks show.  

Brand-new AirVuz contributor yuriy stolypin brings us this excellent drone video from the great Russian city of St. Petersburg.  Some of the featured locations include (in order of first appearance) the Hermitage Museum at the :11 mark, Trinity Cathedral (:45), the Fortres of Peter and Paul (1:10), the Peterhof Palace (1:25), the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns (1:30), St. Isaacs Cathedral (1:45), Lakhta Center (2:10), the Aurora cruiser ship museum (2:27), and more.  This video was a DVOW finalist in November, 2020.

Ride along with top AirVuz contributor and pilot nikybwd for an aerial tour of the Russian city of St. Petersburg.  The video features footage of the following locations: the Church of the Savior on Blood, the Russian Revival masterpiece on Griboyedov Canal; the Peter and Paul Fortress on Hare Island; the gold-domed Saint Isaac's Cathedral;  Kazan Cathedral on Nevky Prospekt;; the Saint Petersburg Ring Road; Krestovsky Stadium (aka Gazsprom Arena); and Lakhta Center, the tallest building in Europe as of 2019.

Top contributor Timelab.pro, used the DJI Inspire 2 drone and Zenmuse X7 camera to create this magnificent wintertime aerial tour of St. Petersburg, Russia's former capital city. The video features the following locations, in rough order of first appearance: the Winter Palace, Palace Square, the gold-domed St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Stock Exchange Building at the tip of Vasilevsky Island, Kazan Cathedral, the Bolshoy Obukhovsky Bridge, Lakhta Center (Europe's tallest building as of 2019), and more.

In this drone video by Minglam, you'll get some great aerial views of six of the best-known sites of St. Petersburg, Russia. In order of appearance, they are (1) the gold-domed St. Isaac's Cathedral; (2) the blue-domed Trinity Cathedral; (3) Lakhta Center, Europe's tallest building as of 2019; (4) the Palace Bridge, which crosses the Neva to Vasilevsky Island; (5) the Admiralty Building, former headquarters of the Russian Imperial Navy; and (6) the Winter Palace, the main palace of the Tsars in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

Check out these excellent drone view of St. Petersburg, Russia on New Year's Eve, compliments of AirVuz contributor sinaysky.  The video opens with some great shots of the city's frozen rivers and canals.  Starting at about the :50 mark, you'll see the magnificent Christmas display in Palace Square, followed by a nice view of the Peter and Paul Fortress.  Other highlights include a great shot of the Palace Bridge at around the 1:30 mark.  This video was picked as a Finalist for the Drone Video of the Week contest.  

Ultra4D4K created this beautiful aerial mini-tour of St. Petersburg, the great Russian city on the Baltic Sea.  The video contains bird's eye views of many of the most well known sites of St. Petersburg, built on the orders of Tsar Peter the Great and once known as Europe's grandest capital.  Ride along for aerial views of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the Cruiser Aurora Museum, the Peterhof Palace, the Bolshoy Obukhovsky Bridge, Catherine Palace, Krestovsky football stadium, and more.  

Check out this eerie drone video of the nearly empty streets of St. Petersburg, Russia during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020, compliments of Sinaysky.  While Russia didn't see its first confirmed death until the third week of March, by mid-April the country was reporting dozens of new daily deaths; St. Petersburg was the second-largest cluster after Moscow.  By then, a combination of measures at the Federal and St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast put life in Russia's second city to a near-standstill.

Former Drone Video of the Week Finalist kino.team brings us this excellent video of Vasilevsky Island in St. Petersburg, Russia.  The island is located between two arms of the Neva River near the waterway's mouth on the Gulf of Finland.  Created with a combination of drone and ground camera footage, the video captures the sights and sounds of the island, which is located just across the river from some of the city's most recognized landmarks and is connected to the mainland via some of the city's most famous bridges.  

Bolshoi Obukhovsky Bridge is the newest bridge crossing the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia.  Competed in 2004, the 2.8k meter (about 9.2k ft) cable suspension bridge is the only St. Petersburg bridge which is not a drawbridge.  Contributo Dronemedia.me used a DJI Phantom drone to create a bird's eye view of this monumental span, an important addition to the infrastructure of Russia's second largest city and one which instantly received worldwide recognition due to its highly complex design.

Saint Petersburg's Krestovsky Stadium is a new, super-modern football (American soccer) stadium built on the site of the Kirov Stadium on Krestovsky Island.  With a normal seating capacity of about 68k, it's the home field of the FC Zenit Saint Petersburg football team.  The stadium hosted the Opening Match and Final of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.  Contributor Dronemedia.me flew a drone over this massive new sports facility and created this amazing aerial view of the stadium and its surroundings. 

Contributor Manx.cat put together this beautiful reel of aerial highlights of St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city and one-time capital.  The video opens with a shot looking down one of the city's canals at the gold dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral, the largest Eastern Orthodox church in the world.  From there it cuts to the magnificent Peterhof Palace, known as the Russian Versailles.  The video will then take you around to other notable spots in this magnificent city, Peter the Great's Window on Europe.  

Lakhta Center is a skyscraper project in the outskirts of St. Petersburg.  When the tower was topped out in early 2018, it became the tallest building not just in Russia, but in all of Europe.  Top contributor Timelab.pro used a DJI Inspire 2 drone to create a breathtaking aerial video of this amazing and supermodern, mixed-use structure that has 87 floors and reaches a rooftop height of 462 meters (just over 1.5k ft.).  The building is located on the Gulf of Finland, a bit northwest of the city center.  

This drone video of St. Petersburg, Russia by Sergei Pinin opens with an epic shot of the blue-domed Trinity Cathedral, the great Empire-syle landmark.  From there you'll get to see many of the other highlights of the great city founded by Peter the Great in the early 19th century: the Winter Palace and adjacent Palace Square, the Admiralty Building, the Kazan Cathedral, Church of the Savior of the Spilled Blood, St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Palace Bridge between Vasilievsky Island and the mainland, and more.  

Contributor proskalov wove together his aerial footage of St. Petersburg from the summer of 2018 to create this beautiful collage of the former capital city commissioned by Tsar Peter the Great.  It opens with a shot of the gold-domed St. Isaac's Cathedral, the masterpiece which took 40 years to build.  From there you will be taken to see the blue and gold domes of Trinity Cathedral, the star-shaped Peter and Paul Fortress, the Admiralty Building, and more sights from this city on the Neva River.  

Take a first person view (FPV) drone tour of Russia's famous Peter and Paul Fortress, compliments of Shamkhal_fpv.  The complex sits on its own island near the mouth of the Neva River in the heart of St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city.  It was established in the early 18th century by Tsar Peter the Great, who built his namesake city to replace Moscow as Russia's capital.  Originally constructed to defend from an attack by Sweden from the north which never materialized, it went on to serve as a prison for nearly 200 years.  

The Scarlet Sails (Алые паруса in Russian) is a celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the biggest and most famous event during the White Nights Festival every summer, when the days are virtually endless. The spectacular fireworks, epic concerts, and massive water show brings more than one million people to the city to celebrate. Drone pilot DroneProduction.ru captures the massive party in this spectacular, 4K drone video featuring the thousands of fireworks that light up the night. 

Palace Square is one of the main public spaces in St. Petersburg, Russia.  It's named after the adjacent Winter Palace, the official residence of the Romanov family from 1732-1917 and now part of the Hermitage.  The focal point of Palace Square is the Alexander Column; it's named after Tsar Alexander I, who led the victory over Napoleon in the early 1800's.  In this drone video by Shkrebiy, you'll get a 360 degree view of the square, the site of the Bloody Sunday Massacre of 1905 which set the stage for the Russian Revolutions of 1917.  

Contributor chill_side put together this terrific drone video of the city of St. Petersburg as it celebrated the 75th anniversary of the end of history's deadliest siege during World War II.  In September, 1941, three months after invading the USSR, the forces of Nazi Germany surrounded the city, which was then known as Leningrad.   During the ensuing 900 days, it's estimated that over a million civilians perished, mostly from hunger, exposure, and disease.  Leningrad was liberated by the Red Army in January, 1944.

Prepare to be amazed by this first person view (FPV) drone video of an epic dive session over one of the world's most prominent skyscrapers, compliments of AirVuz contributor pilot n0i3e: Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, which has the distinction of being Europe's tallest skyscraper as of 2021.  Completed in 2018, the ultra-modern "twisted" structure stands nearly half a kilometer (460 meters, or about 1.5k ft.) above the Lakhta neighborhood northwest of St. Petersburg's historic city center.  

Check out this fascinating drone video by chill_side of a containership plowing its way through half-frozen waters of the Baltic Sea near St. Petersburg, Russia.  The video was shot near the city of Kronstandt, which is located on Kotlin Island about 30 km (around 18 mi.) west of central St. Petersburg, in the Gulf of Finland.  The island, which is part of the city of St. Petersburg, is the long-time home of the Russian Baltic Fleet.  The waters around Kronsadt are generally completely frozen during the winter months.  

Check out this rare drone footage of Europe's tallest skyscraper under construction, compliments of top contributor and pilot Flycam24.  He was able to film the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg as the giant tower was nearing its topping out stage.  Completed in 2019, the 87 story mixed-use tower has an architectural height of 462 meters, or just over 1.5k ft.  It's located in the Lakhta District, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland northwest of the historical city core.  It is the tallest building in Europe as of 2020.  

For a second upload to AirVuz, contributor and pilot yuriylobachev brings us this excellent drone video from St. Petersburg, Russia.  The focus of the first part of the video is the gold-domed St. Isaacs Cathedral, the great Russian Orthodox church built on the orders of Tsar Alexander I, which is generally considered the city's greatest church.  Then it's on to the Peterhof Palace, Catherine the Great's answer to Versaille.  Then it's on to the Russian Navy cruiser Aurora, now a floating museum, the bridges of the Neva, and more.  

Trinity Cathedral is an important cultural landmark in the Russian city of St. Petersburg.  Consecrated in 1835, it's considered one of the best examples of the Empire architectural style.  The Eastern Orthodox church is located just south of the Admiralty complex on Izmaylovskiy Prospekt.  Left in a state of abandon and almost closed during the Stalinist 30's, the church underwent a major restoration in the 1990's but was heavily damaged by a fire in 2006.  Check it out from above in this excellent drone video by Minglam.  

As the world's northernmost major city, Russia's St. Petersburg becomes a semi-frozen world during the winter months.  In this excellent drone video by contributor proskalov, you'll get a bird's eye wintertime view of Russia's erstwhile capital.  The video opens with shots of the Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge (aka the Peter the Great Bridge) over the Neva River.  Then you'll head downstream, first to the blue and white Smolny Cathedral, then Palace Square, and finally the Old Stock Exchange Building, before returning to the bridge.  

Here's a nice aerial view of St. Petersburg, Russia, compliments of contributor Agapov.Nikita.  The video was shot in the summer months in the heart of the city, along the Neva River.  At about the :40 mark there's a great shot looking south and west over the Troitskiy Bridge towards the Hermitage and (to the right) the gold-domed St. Isaac's Cathedral.  At around the :40 there's another great shot looking over the bridge, this time due west towards the great Fortress of Peter and Paul and its enclosed Peter and Paul Cathedral. 

Take a tour of the great Russian city of St. Petersburg in this excellent drone video by new AirVuz contributor Matvey Makarov.  Starting at about the :35 mark, there are some great shots of the gold-domed St. Isaac's Cathedral.  At about the :55, you'll see the bridges of the Western High Speed Diameter toll-road over the mouth of the Neva River.  Another highlight is the 14th century Shlisselburg Fortress; seen beginning at the 1:20 mark, it's built on a small island at the southern end of Lake Ladoga, east of central St. Petersburg.

Top contributor vitaliy.karpovich has created some of the best aerial footage of St. Petersburg; his three first uploads, all from Russia's Second City, were all picked as finalists for the AirVuz Drone Video of the Week.  In this outstanding video, he shows us the Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex.  Now in the process of demolition, the facility opened in 1979.  On a site located just east of Moskovsky Victory Park in one of the city's southern districts, the venue was used primarily for concerts and tennis tournaments.

AirVuz contributor kino.team brings us this excellent drone video of St. Petersburg, Russia as the country's second-largest city and erstwhile capital is decked out for the Christmas holiday.  The video opens with a shot of the Old Stock Exchange Building.  At about the :15 mark, you'll see the Palace Bridge over the Neva River and behind it the gold dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral.  At :43, there's a great view of the Peter and Paul Fortress and Cathedral.  Other featured locations include Palace Square, the Alexander Column, and more.  

For a first upload to AirVuz, new contributor yes.tomorrow brings us this excellent drone video of a fog-covered bridge in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia.  It's called the Bolshoy Obukhovsky Bridge, and it spans the Neva River southeast of the center city.   Its first span opened in 2004 its second in 2007, it's the city's only Neva River bridge which is not a drawbridge.  The longest span of the cable-stayed bridge is 382 meters or about 1.25k ft., one of the longest in Russia.  It's total length is 2.8k meters or about 9.3k ft.     

Check out this drone video of a beautiful spot just north of St. Petersburg, Russia, compliments of contributor and pilot junglijay.  It's called Solnechnoe, and it's located in Kurortny, the northernmost district of Russia's second-largest city and erstwhile capital.  The territory here is part of the Karelian Isthmus, the land bridge between the Gulf of Finland to the west and Lake Ladoga to the east.  The area had been part of Finland prior to its capture by the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939-40.

The Lakhta Center, which was completed in 2018, stands nearly half a kilometer (460 meters, or about 1.5k ft.) above St. Petersburg, Russia.  It is, by a significant margin, the tallest building in Europe.  While it was being built, contributor and FPV pilot Controlflow took an epic dive down the building using a racing drone.  As you watch it that the drone is being flown via video goggles at ground level. The dive has made itself a nominee in our 2nd Annual Drone Video Awards FPV Freestyle Technical category.

A port city on the Baltic Sea, Saint Petersburg, Russia was the imperial capital for two centuries. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703, it remains Russia’s cultural center whose downtown is on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. The Neva River, which cuts through the city with its many canals and their granite embankments and bridges, adds to the city’s ambience. Dronemedia.me takes us on the water during the glorious summertime months to show us its beauty in this drone video. 

Explore the great city of St. Petersburg, Russia in this excellent video by former Drone Video of the Week Finalist Zoya.  At the :54 mark, you'll see the Church of the Savior on Blood, one of the city's most famous churches.  At 1:26, you'll see the gold dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral (currently undergoing a renovation) in the background, followed by a view of some port facilities along the Gulf of Finland.  At 2:26, you'll see the Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge (aka the Okhtinsky Bridge), which crosses the Neva River.  

January 27 is an important day in St. Petersburg, Russia, a city which was known as Leningrad in Soviet times.  On January 27, 1944, the Red Army finally broke through the German forces which had encircled the city in the first months of the Great Patriotic War (as World War II is known in the former USSR), ending a nearly 900 day siege which had resulted in up to a million civilian deaths from starvation and cold.  In this excellent drone video by AirVuz contributor Skyslant, you'll see the commemoration of this historic event.  

AirVuz contributor and first person view (FPV) pilot angryprops brings us this epic FPV diving video from the tallest building in Europe.  The 87 story Lakhta Center, which was completed in 2018, stands nearly half a kilometer (460 meters, or about 1.5k ft.) above St. Petersburg, Russia.  The video was filmed at night, when the tower was lit up with a special color configuration in honor of the 2021 Summer Olympics.  This video was picked for the FPV Pilots to Watch list in September, 2021.  

This excellent drone video of St. Petersburg, Russia by top contributor and pilot VadimUshKa opens with an epic shot of the Peter and Paul Fortress on Hare Island in the Neva River.  Then the video cuts to Lakhta Center, Europe's tallest building as of 2019.  From there you'll head over to the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral, and then to the warship-cum-museum Aurora.   Other featured spots include the Kazan Cathedral with its curved facade, the gold-domed St. Isaacs Cathedral, the new St. Petersburg Stadium, and more.  

Fresh from winning Drone Video of the Year in the first AirVuz Drone Video Awards for his epic video of his hometown Moscow, top contributor and drone pilot TimeLab.Pro chats with Tyler in this edition of the Drone Dish. With its vivid visuals, cinematic music arrangement, and breathtaking landmarks, it’s easy to see how “Moscow Aerial 5K” became an award-winner.  His video of St. Petersburg, "City of White Nights", since garnered a nomination in the Cities category for the second annual DVA Awards.