White Nights Festival

[4] The "Stars of the White Nights" festival was originally started by the first mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, and has been held annually since 1993.

[5] The festival will feature concerts by popular music performers from Eastern Europe, Asia and other countries of the world, as well as an international competition for young vocalists.

Over the years, the headliners of the pop music festival were Chris Norman, Bonnie Tyler, Deep Purple, Level 42, Scorpions, Patricia Kaas, Eros Ramazzotti, Anastacia, Seal, Jason Derulo, Svetlana Loboda, A-Studio, Vera Brezhneva, Sergei Lazarev, and in 2019 a tribute to the 50-year career of Alla Pugacheva.

[6][7][8][9][10][11] The Scarlet Sails celebration in St. Petersburg is a public event during the White Nights, known in Russian as "Alye Parusa" festivity.

The event is highly popular for spectacular fireworks and a massive show celebrating the end of the school year: "Scarlet Sails" celebration in St. Petersburg The popularity of both the book and the tradition was boosted after the 1961 release of the movie titled "Alye parusa" ("Scarlet sails" in English), starring Anastasiya Vertinskaya and Vasily Lanovoy.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya in Saint Petersburg 28 June 2006 at 11 p.m. , demonstrating the degree of sunlight still present during White Nights
Palace Square with the Alexander Column view from the Winter Palace