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2011 ISAF Mid-Year Meeting
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Date4 - 8 May 2011
LocationAstoria Hotel, St Petersburg, Russia
Submission Cutoff10 March 2011
The deadline for submissions was 12:00 UTC 10 March 2011

 

About Saint Isaac's Square, St Petersburg

Saint Isaac's Square or Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad known as Vorovsky Square  between 1923 and 1944, in Saint Petersburg, Russia is a major city square sprawling between the Mariinsky Palace and Saint Isaac's Cathedral, which separates it from Senate Square. The square is graced by the equestrian Monument to Nicholas I.

The Lobanov-Rostovsky House (1817-20) on the west side of the square was designed by Auguste de Montferrand. It may be described as an Empire style building that has an eight-column portico facing the Russian Admiralty. The main porch features the twin statues of lions on granite pedestals; they were made famous by Pushkin in his last long poem, The Bronze Horseman. Nearby is Quarenghi's Horse Guards' Riding Hall (1804-07), in part inspired by the Parthenon and flanked by the marble statues of the Dioscuri, by Paolo Triscorni.

Opposite the cathedral is the Mariinsky Palace, built in 1829-1844 for Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna. Currently the palace houses the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly. In front of the palace is the 97-metre-wide Blue Bridge, which used to be the widest in Saint Petersburg. Spanning the Moika River, the bridge is usually perceived as the extension of the square, although in fact it forms a separate square, called Mariyinskaya. To the right from the bridge is so-called Neptune's Scale, with a granite top. This is a stele which marks water levels during major floods.

                                  

 

To the east of the cathedral is the six-storey Hotel Astoria, designed by Fyodor Lidval. It opened in 1912 and was one of the most luxurious hotels in the Russian Empire. Adjacent to the Astoria is the hotel Angleterre, which is remembered as the deathplace of poet Sergei Yesenin. The building found at the corner of Malaya Morskaya Street is associated with Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who lived there in 1848-1849. At this period, he published his first work of fiction, White Nights.

The Russian Institute of Plant Breeding named after Academician Nikolai Vavilov is located in two neo-Renaissance buildings. The institute has a unique collection of 160,000 cultivated plants, which Vavilov collected while travelling in every continent from 1921 to 1940. After the end of the war, a journal published in London reported that Vavilov's collection was lost during the Siege of Leningrad. However, the report was false: although many starved to death, the institute's staff would not consume a single grain of rice or potato tuber from the collection.

One of the last buildings to be erected on the square was the trapezoidal red-granite German Embassy (1911-12), by the architect Peter Behrens. The building is a reference point in the history of Western architecture, as it was the first specimen of stripped classicism, a style that enjoyed immense popularity in Stalinist Russia.

Visas - Important

Please allow plenty of time to apply for your visa and ensure that your passport is valid at least 6 months beyond your date of travel.

The easiest way to obtain a visa is to use the visa service offered by the hotel where you will be staying.  The hotels listed in the accommodation page all offer a visa support service free of charge in accordance with their terms of reservation.  You need to provide the information required to obtain a visa as instructed when you make your reservation.  Some penalty charges may apply in the event of no-show.

The reservation forms/links given for each hotel will take you to the visa service for each hotel.

Please note that persons travelling from Algeria, Angola, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Jordan, India, Iraq, Iran, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ruanda, Syria, Somalia, Chad, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Turkey, Georgia may be required to provide additional documentation to support visa applications.

Click here for general information about visa entry requirements

Airport Transfers

Taxi bookings cannot be made in advance but volunteers from the Russian Yachting Federation will be present at the airport to offer delegates and observers assistance with finding a taxi to take them to their hotel.  The taxi fare is between 20 - 25 Euros.  On arrival in St Petersburg you should look out for "ISAF Mid-Year Meeting" signs.  In order that the Russian Yachting Federation can schedule this service please send an email to RUSMRC@yandex.ru with your date and time of arrival.  The Russian Yachting Federation will also be able to assist with taxi bookings for return flights

ISAF Registration

Committee Members attending meetings scheduled as part of the meetings programme do not need to register but if you are unable to attend then we would be grateful if you could inform the ISAF Secretariat at secretariat@isaf.co.uk  Delegate badges will be available for all committee members for collection from the ISAF reception desk which will be signposted in the Astoria Hotel.

Anyone who is not a committee member attending a meeting as part of the official meetings programme must register in advance as an observer.

In order that badges can be prepared for collection from the ISAF reception desk observers and spouses/partners of committee members must either:

1. complete the online registration form (link below).  This will be submitted directly to the ISAF Secretariat.

Click here for the online observer registration form

2. complete the registration in word format and send it by email to secretariat@isaf.co.uk or by fax to: + 44 2380 635789

Click here for the observer registration form in word format

The deadline for registration is Monday 25 April 2011

 

 

 
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