Nevsky Prospekt is the city’s main street and its warmest part. Compared to suburbs, its temperature is 2–3 degrees higher in summer and 10–12 degrees higher in winter. Architect Rossi Street (Ulitsa Zodchego Rossi, previously known as Teatralnaya Ulitsa) is unique because of its proportions: it’s 22 m wide, while its buildings are 22 m tall. The length of the street is precisely 10 times bigger (220 m). Besides, it looks like there’s just one building on each side of the street, while in reality it’s five different buildings with the same design and a shared façade. Alexander Column in the Palace Square weighs 613 tonnes. It stands under its own weight and took less than 2 hours to get installed. The Column was put in the square in 1834 to commemorate Russia’s victory over Napoleon and was purposefully designed to be taller than the Vendôme Column in Paris. This is the world’s tallest monument among those out of solid granite and third tallest victory column. The column shaft is the tallest and heaviest solid block ever installed as a column or an obelisk and one of the biggest monoliths ever displaced by people (the fifth biggest of all times and the second biggest in modern age – after the Thunder Stone under the Bronze Horseman).