25 September – 11 December

The 28^th of September 2008 the Battle at Lesnoy will turn 300; it was one of the most important victories of Peter’s army. It is this battle that arranged success of the Russian troops in the Battle of Poltava that in its turn determined the ultimate outcome of the war to the good of Russia.

Not in vain did Peter write about this victory - «And indeed she is the result of all favorable outcomes in Russia … and mother of the Battle of Poltava».

Avant-garde for Zhukov is history and he doesn’t pretend to represent it, to be a “creator of non-existent” as called by the left-wing artists of 1920s. Traces of avant-garde movement, if found in his paintings do not claim to possess a demiurgic quality and conceptual universality of their symbolics. A certain level of abstraction is present in Zhukov’s work simply as a way to expand the associative semantic field of the painting. Its main goal though is the disclosure of those personal sensations that create an intimate connection between the artist and the world that surrounds him.

20 декабря 2007 - 15 января 2008

Digital art (photography, video) became lately hugely popular. Knowing the growing popularity of photography and the interest of the public in studying works of famous photographers, Fund "Okhta" has chosen for the exhibition the works of Mykola Gnisyuk, recognized as a master photographer not only in Russia, but also abroad.

November 29, 2007 – January 31, 2008

Dear Friends, we invite you to visit our Exhibition “The Mystery of the Sunken Ships. The Battle of Vyborg”.

217 years ago in the waters of the Vyborg Gulf the greatest battle in the centuries-old history of the Baltic Sea took place. Nor up to that time neither after Russia and Sweden had not sent so many ships, more than three hundred burgees and forty five thousand Swedish soldiers had faced two hundred Russian ships and twenty five thousand Russian defenders. As the historians say much has been staked on that great fight, the result of the whole war depended on that sea battle. The Swedes locked in the Gulf had to make their way through Russian flotilla at any cost, and at the same time the Russians had to hold back an enemies attack.

Today in St. Petersburg architectural discussions and disputes continue. Once again there are contradictory opinions and conflicts between people supporting different points of view. Like all Petersburgians who care for the state of our city, we could not remain indifferent. So Cultural Heritage Support Fund "Okhta" decided to organize exhibition "Architecture of Saint-Petersburg: Conflicts and Contradictions"

Dear friends, we gladly invite you to visit our exhibition "Paranormal Archaeology of Denis Donchenko".We offer you a look on modern plastic arts through a prism of archaeology taking us on a journey through time and space and making us feel like researchers. Our new exhibition is absolutely unusual both in its style and form.

25 May – 30 June 2007.
Last decades of the bygone century became hard times for the national Fleet. The old ships rusted and were written off, new ones were not built practically, the Fleet was promptly reduced, prestige of marine trade sharply declined. And only last years the trend began to change for the better.

Dear friends, we gladly invite you to visit our archaeological exhibition about new discoveries made by St. Petersburg archaeologists in 2006.
This year we would like to acquaint you with objects found in Old Ladoga, one of the most interesting archaeological sites, a magnificent monument of our county's history and culture, and also with the archaeological studies conducted on the territory of Landskrona and Nyenskans, former Swedish fortresses, where it is planned to construct Gazprom City complex.

30 November 2006 – 30 January 2007

The "Nyenskans" Museum opens jointly with the Central Naval Museum the most interesting “page of history”: THE OKHTA SHIPYARD based on the peninsula where the Okhta flows into the Neva where since olden days trading ways have been stretching, where once the Swedish fortress Nyenskans was situated. Now in that area there are business centers and the immediate plans provide construction of the "Okhta Center".