St PetersburgEntertainment

Dance entertainment in St Petersburg

  1. A

    Metro

    St Petersburg’s most popular spot for teenagers, Metro is a giant venue with three dance floors, featuring Russian and European music downstairs, techno and house on the 2nd floor and the poppiest pop on the top floor. At 2am four nights a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday), male and female dancers clad in leather (at least at the beginning) put on an erotic show. Student nights – Monday and Wednesday – are packed.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Revolution

    There’s no better place to watch the sunrise than from the top floor of Revolution. The glass-enclosed ‘winter garden’ is higher than most other buildings in the vicinity, giving a wonderful 360-degree view of the surrounding city. And if you are here at sunrise, it means you have been dancing all night – easy to do with DJs spinning tunes on two dance floors.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Island

    The Island club is on a rather hard-to-reach embankment location on Vasilevsky Island. It is professionally run and aimed at a well-off, fashionable crowd without being pointlessly elitist. There are some superb shows on the revolving dance floors. Music is mainly pop and techno, although big-name DJs occasionally visit.

    reviewed

  4. D

    Tunnel Club

    Back in the 1990s, Tunnel pioneered techno music in this bastion of old-school rock-and-roll. Closed for several years, the military-themed club reopened in the bomb shelter where it was first born. The setting is spooky but somehow appropriate for the electronica that goes down here.

    reviewed

  5. E

    Mod Club

    There’s a groovy mix of live and spun music at this fun, invariably packed place, with two bars and little balconies for a prime view of the stage.

    reviewed