Petrograd 1917 (Adventures in the Secret Service)

First aired: 3/27/93

Directed by: Simon Wincer

This episode features a combination of locations in St. Petersburg & Prague. An excerpt from George Lucas: The Creative Impulse:

“Disconcertingly, Russian soldiers offered to sell the crew a Scud missle for $10,000, and a nuclear power plant blew up near a filming location (this was actually a radioactive gas leak at Sosnovy Bar Nuclear Power Plant).”

The Palace Square in St. Petersburg.

GPS Coordinates:

59.938784,30.316043

This statue honors Tsar Nicholas I and is in the St. Isaac's Square in St. Petersburg.

GPS Coordinates:

59.93213,30.30835

The building Indy works at is the Ministry of Culture in Prague.

GPS Coordinates:

50.085513,14.405667

The building where Indy & friends lived in this episode was on Snemovni street in Prague, near the Association of Charles Bridge Artists at Sněmovní 174/7.

GPS Coordinates:

50.089587,14.403851

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Here is a rare behind the scenes photo of the crew setting up what is presumably the above shot outside Indy's apartment - looking the other direction toward Prague Castle.

This shows the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange building. 

Address:

W8V3+9R Vasileostrovsky District, St Petersburg, Russia

The first bridge Indy & Rosa see on their tour of Petrograd's bridges is the Hermitage Bridge over Winter Channel, which flows into the Neva River right next to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

GPS Coordinates:

59.947828,30.336385

The next bridge Indy & Rosa walk across in is the Bank Bridge in St. Petersburg, one of the city's most famous landmarks.

GPS Coordinates:

59.932202,30.324875

Lastly, they cross Lions Bridge (or the Bridge of Four Lions).

GPS Coordinates:

59.926919,30.301403

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