International Symposium

ECOLOGICAL  PARASITOLOGY
ON THE TURN OF MILLENNIUM

1-7 July 2000

St. Petersburg, Russia
		Please, return before 15 March 2000 to:
K. Galaktionov/ O. Pugachev
Local organizing committee, Symposium 
ECOLOGICAL PARASITOLOGY ON THE TURN OF MILLENNIUM
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab., 1
199034 St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
Fax: + 812 3282941, e-mail: vermes@zin.ru

Registration form and Hotel reservation

Surname	First name	
Institution:
Address:	
	
Country:                              Tel:                               Fax:                              E-mail:	
Accompanying  person:	

A: Registration fee         No. pers            Before 15 March         After  15 March                    US $
Active participants		220 $	300 $		
Accompanying persons		  50 $	  50 $		

B: Symposium banquet                No. pers                     Price per person                     US $
Symposium banquet: 6 July		50 $		

C: Special Symposium excursion program         No. pers    Price per person           US $    
4 July 2000	Excursion to the Hermitage, 2,5 hours		16 $		
7 July 2000	Peterhof and Pushkin tour, 8 hours, incl. lunch		50 $		

D: Hotel reservation             No. pers                 Single room                  Double room 
Hotel St. Petersburg		53 $              	63 $               	
		68 $              	84 $               	
Youth Hotel (all private facilities)		25 $              	35-40 $          	
Student dormitories (no private facilities)		7-10 $ per person                              	
Rates are per room per night, except where indicated. At the Hotel St. Petersburg they include
buffet breakfast. Hotel deposit for the Hotel St. Petersburg - 80 $, for the Youth Hotel - 40 $
Accommodation in Student dormitories needs no deposit.
Arrival date_______Departure date________Number of nights_____

I will organize accommodation myself		
Please, state your choice in 

E: Daily excursions and tours
Please, choose and mark the excursions you would like to take part in:
                                                                                                              No. pers             Price per person
The Russian Museum, 2 hours		12 $	
The Peter and Paul's Fortress and St. Isaac's  Cathedral, 2,5 hours		30 $	
Rivers and channels of St. Petersburg, boat-ride, 1 hour		23 $	
Pavlovsk, 5 hours		25 $	
Novgorod the Great, 12 hours, incl. lunch		65 $	
*The price per person is indicated for groups not less than 4 persons. Payment at the registration desk.
                                                                                                                  Total:  A+hotel deposit+B+C

Enclosed is a copy of a bank transfer to: The Scandinavian Society for Parasitology, Symposium ECOLOGICAL PARASITOLOGY ON THE TURN OF MILLENNIUM, Acc. no.: 0530 0578138, Postbanken International, 0021 Oslo, Norway, SWIFT: PGINNOKK 0530  0578138.

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P.S. Please, take a copy for your own use

City tour, 3 hours
According to the official UNESCO rating St. Petersburg holds the 8thplace among the world tourist attractions. It reflects unique blend of the European art and the exuberant Asian spirit, restless and unpredictable. You will see Nevsky Prospekt, the main street of St. Petersburg, the Admiralty building - the birthplace of the Russian Navy, the Smolny Cathedral and Institute, the 1st school for girls in Russia. The bus makes photo-stops on the Neva River and the Palace Square, as well as on the Decembrists’ Square with the monument to Peter the Great, the founder of the city. 
Price is included into the registration fee
The Hermitage, 2,5 hours
The State Hermitage, now one of the largest and richest museums of the world, has grown up from a private collection of Empress Catherine the Great, who called it her “hermit’s cabin” (in French - “hermitage”). Unique treasures of primitive, antique, oriental and West-European fine and applied art - over three million exhibits - are displayed in 6 buildings, including the Winter Palace. This huge and amazing edifice in high Baroque style was an official residence of Russian tsars for more than 150 years. Out of 400 halls of the museum there are many brilliant samples of interior decoration. The Jordan Staircase, Hall of St.George, “Gallery of 1812”, Malachite Hall are among them.
Price: 16 $ per person (incl. ticket, guide)
Peterhof and Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo) tour by bus, 8 hours
Peterhof - the city of fountains on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, was founded by Peter the Great as his main summer residence foreordained to overshine Versailles itself. The water system of Peterhof parks is the largest in the world: it supplies the stupendous “Grand Cascade” and 2 lesser ones, “Golden Hill” and “Chess Hill”, as well as more than 140 playing fountains. All they compose a fairy symphony of water. The chain of parks in Peterhof comprises the Great Palace, a number of pavilions, small and cozy palaces, chapels and bridges. Many famous masters of art from Russia and other countries contributed their genius and labour to their decoration. You will visit one of summer palaces restored after the II World War in its original beauty.
In the place of Tsarskoye Selo in former  times there was a small Swedish estate - Saari Mois. Peter the Great presented it to his wife - Empress Catherine I. Their daughter Empress Elisabeth turned it to a magnificent symbol of the Russian court. Later it came into hands of Catherine the Great who made it her favourite summer residence for over 30 years. A succession of Russian tsars till Nicholas II continued to create an isolated miniature world of Tsarskoye Selo. Its 3 parks occupy the area of 590 hectares, on which over 100 architectural constructions rise, from magnificent palaces and grand monuments to intimate pavilions and park sculptures.
Price: 50 $ per person (incl. bus, tickets, guide, lunch)
The Russian Museum, 2 hours
The Russian Museum is a world-famous repository of Russian art. Its priceless collection (more than 300.000 items) opens with the icons executed 800 years ago and rounds up with painting, sculpture and decorative art of contemporary artists. The Russian Museum, inaugurated in 1898, occupies the magnificent Mikhailovsky Palace. This masterpiece of the Russian Empire style was built in 1819-1825 to the design of Carlo Rossi - creator of the most triumphal architectural ensembles of St.Petersburg.
Price*: 12 $ per person (incl. ticket, guide)
The Peter and Paul’s Fortress and St.Isaac’s Cathedral, 2,5 hours
The Peter and Paul’s Fortress is the place from which the city began from the day of its foundation, May 27, 1703. Built as a fortress to protect the Neva banks gained back to Russia by Peter the Great, it never participated in any wars and later became one of the most horrible political prisons - the Russian Bastille. You will visit St. Peter and Paul’s Cathedral, the oldest shrine of the northern capital and the burial place of Russian Emperors. The excursion includes the walking tour of the fortress and the Cathedral.
St. Isaac’s Cathedral is dedicated to the saint, whose memory is celebrated on the birthday of Peter the Great (May 30, old style). The existing church, the 4th on this place, was constructed in 1818-1858. It is an outstanding monument of architecture as well as of civil engineering. The Cathedral is 101 m. high and can seat 14.000 people. Its interior is abundantly decorated with coloured marbles, malachite, azurite, mosaics and bronze. Since 1858 till revolution of 1917 St.Isaac’s Cathedral was the state church number one in Russian Empire.
Price*: 30 $ per person (incl. bus, tickets, guide)
Rivers and Channels, 1 hour
The embankments of the Neva Delta play an outstanding role in the appearance of St.Petersburg. About 360 bridges are thrown across its numerous big and small rivers - so the city is called “a museum of bridges”. The boat trip gives the most expressive and poetic perception of the city landscape as the channels reveal the beauty and the soul of “the Venice of the North” much better than its streets and avenues.
Price*: 23 $ per person (incl. ticket, guide)
Pavlovsk, 5 hours
Pavlovsk takes its beginning in 1777 when Catherine the Great, delighted by the birth of her first grandson, presented this place in the neighborhood of Tsarskoye Selo to her only son and heir, Tsarevich Paul. But the real mistress of this royal residence became Paul’s wife, Maria Feodorovna. So, Pavlovsk is a woman’s domicile, you get a feeling of a harmonious country residence here. A galaxy of famous architects participated in the creation of its park-and-palace ensemble and this mixture of talents produces unique and splendid effect. Since the death of widowed Empress Maria in 1828 no additions of any importance were made to the decoration of Pavlovsk. Completely reborn after the War of 1941-1945, it reflects the golden age of the Russian art.
Price*: 25 $ per person (incl. bus, ticket, guide)
Novgorod the Great, 12 hours
This oldest Russian city is located 180 km south of St.Petersburg on the Volkhov River. Its beginning dates back to the IX century: this is why the monument “Millennium of Russia” was erected just there (1862). The sights of the town are very picturesque. Novgorod Kremlin with brick-red walls and towers is a real medieval stronghold which keeps the sacred symbol of prosperity and power of the city - St.Sophia Cathedral (1052). The Market Side of Novgorod reminds of its close trade relations with the Hanseatic League and Scandinavia. Cultural treasures of this ancient land are well presented in the local museums. One of them represents old Russian village: samples of wooden architecture removed from the region are concentrated at a riverside suburb “Vitoslavlitsy”. Hereabout the most famous monastery of Novgorod is situated. It is dedicated to St.George (Yurjev Monastery).
Price*: 65 $ per person (incl. bus, tickets, guide, lunch)

*The price per person is indicated for groups not less than 4 persons. Payment at the registration desk.