Collective immunity, an apartment for 3 thousand residents and secret documents

The vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Oleg Ergashev, said that herd immunity in the city would be achieved within a month. In general, the Vice Governor assessed the situation with covid-19 in St. Petersburg as tense, but stable. The city has seen a gradual decrease in the incidence, and now we can talk about a plateau, he added. According to official data, by September 9, more than 1.5 million Petersburgers had completed the full cycle of vaccination against covid. The prevalence rate of the disease in the city is less than one and is 0.73.

Korean automaker opened a new plant in St. Petersburg

The South Korean corporation Hyundai WIA has opened a plant for the production of engines in St. Petersburg. According to the press service of the company, investments in the enterprise, which is located on Levashovskoye Highway, amounted to 15.8 billion rubles. it will employ about 500 people. The plant will produce 1.6-liter Gamma internal combustion engines. From the end of 2022, the plant will also start producing 2-liter Nu engines.

Investors have lost interest in buying apartments in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, the demand for residential real estate purchased for subsequent resale is declining. According to developers, the share of investment transactions now does not exceed 15%, although until recently it reached 25%. Experts and market participants explain the trend change by a number of circumstances. The main ones are the increase in the threshold for entering the market, the slowdown in the growth of apartment prices and the transition of the construction industry to project financing, which has sharply reduced the profitability of speculative housing transactions.

Petersburg declassified documents about the "forbidden hour" and spruce vitamins

On September 8, on the day of the 80th anniversary of the blockade of Leningrad, the Archives of St. Petersburg portal published declassified wartime documents. Among them are appeals for the construction of liquid fuel warehouses and the opening of a hospital for weakened workers at the Krasny Metallist plant. The appeal of the HEAD of the garrison of Leningrad, Lieutenant General Stepanov, to a member of the Military Council of the Leningrad Front, A. Kuznetsov, demonstrates resolutions on a proposal to increase the forbidden time for the movement of Leningraders around the city by one hour, from 22.00 to 5.00 "in view of the reduction of the day and the early offensive, in connection with this , darkness. A document is also stored in the archive, which tells how scientists of the besieged city, on the eve of the first military winter, tried to solve the issue of providing citizens with vitamins.

Buying a car in the showroom: risks, price forecast and expert advice

Over the past two years, the situation in the automotive market has changed not in favor of buyers. This is expressed primarily in a serious shortage of cars and, as a result, an increase in their prices. For some models, prices have risen by 25% over the past two years. At the request of RBC Petersburg, the experts gave several recommendations to buyers and shared their forecasts on how the automotive industry could develop in the near future.