All sessions of the conference will take place in the conference hall of the hotel "Znamenka" that is ready to accommodate all participants. As the hotel site is in Russian, we prepared a small photo gallery.

Reservations of rooms at this hotel can be made through the LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, using the accompanying Accommodation Form (see below). According to received Accommodation forms, we have booked a block of 16 Single, about 45 Double/Twin and several Ecomon rooms. More rooms are still available for booking.

The rooms at the hotel can be placed in 5 categories (see the table).

category	number	cost in 2005	comments
	of rooms	(room per night)
Deluxe	4	4600 Rbl.	1 room (~50 sq.m.), 2 beds+divan+...,
			shower, WC, TV
Single	16	1200-1500 Rbl.	1 room, 1 bed, shower, WC, TV
Double/Twin	47	1600-2300 Rbl.	1-2 rooms, 2 beds, shower, WC, TV
Multi	8	2000-2500 Rbl.	1 room, 3-5 beds, shower, WC, TV
Econom	10	400 Rbl.	1 room, 1-6 beds, WC, no shower
		(per bed)	(available on the floor)

NB: In March 2006 Euro 1 is about 33.5 Rbl, $1 about 27.5 Rbl.

The hotel is a palace (a summer residence of the Russian royal family) built in the 1720s and partly rebuilt later. In the last years, 2/3 of the hotel rooms were repaired. Less comfortable rooms have reduced prices as shown in the table.

The hotel "Znamenka" is actually a pension. It provides different categories of meal. For the conference we selected the most expensive but flexible "Swedish table" one that includes breakfast, lunch and dinner with a rich choice and costs 750 Rbl per person per day. The price of the meals is not included in the room prices. If any questions about this arise, please contact the LOC.

Please, keep in mind that June is a peak of the tourist season in St. Petersburg and the hotel "Znamenka" having a locally very high ratio of quality to price is nearly fully booked already in April.

We can advise you where to arrange more reasonable or more expensive hotel rooms (see, e.g., http://www.rus-hotels.com for more information). For example, a very comfortable hotel "Baltic Star" (http://www.balticstar-hotel.ru) with rooms for Euro 200(?) per day in this season is located on the road between the city and Peterhof, 12 km from Znamenka and 15 km from the city. Note that if you stay at other hotels, daily transportations to/from the conference place will be your responsibility.

The Accommodation Form is available as a file in different formats:
        DOS         RTF         PostScript         PDF

The form should be returned to the LOC as soon as possible.