In St. Petersburg, amid internet shutdowns, tourists have started being given paper maps...

In St. Petersburg, amid internet shutdowns, tourists have started being given paper maps

St. Petersburg authorities have developed measures to "back up" tourists during mobile internet shutdowns, the city's governor Alexander Beglov said in an interview with TASS.

Among those measures, he named:

✹ paper maps and guidebooks, which are handed out at the city tourist information bureau and by Ask Me service staff;

✹ the citywide free Wi-Fi network SPB\Free (Bumaga writes that this Wi-Fi works slowly, and in some places it does not exist at all);

✹ the authorities also asked for the Visit Petersburg tourism portal to be included in the so-called whitelist.

In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as in many other regions of Russia, the authorities regularly block mobile internet. They explain the restrictions as security measures amid attacks by Ukrainian drones.

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