Saint Petersburg Flagpoles
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59°58′51″N 30°11′44″E / 59.98093°N 30.19545°E
The Saint Petersburg Flagpoles are the world's third tallest flagpoles at 175 m (574 ft 2 in) tall.[1]
Located at the Park of the 300th Anniversary of St Petersburg, near the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg, they were erected in June 2023.[2] The flags are the current flag of the Russian Federation, the flag of the Russian Empire and the flag of the Soviet Union.[3]
The raising of the flags marked the following anniversaries:[4]
- 330th anniversary of Peter the Great's tricolour
- 165 years of Tsar Alexander II's black-yellow-white flag
- 100 years of the institution of the red flag
The project was implemented by majority state-owned Gazprom, which is headquartered nearby at the Lakhta Centre.