"Avrora" cinema

This theater opened in 1913, next to the Anchikov Palace on Nevskii Prospekt as the Pikadilly Cinema. It was renamed the Avrora in 1932. The newest uadio system was installed in the cinema the same year and the center became one of the first sound ones in Europe. This fact made the cinema the most popular place in Saint-Petersburg.The Avrora shows first-run Russian movies, as well as some foreign films.