DotNext 2018 Piter is a technical .NET conference that will take place on April 22-23, 2018, in St. Petersburg. Here, at DotNext, you can find such world's leading experts as Jon Skeet, Sasha Goldshtein, Dino Esposito, Andrey Akinshin, Mark Seemann, Karel Zikmund and other .NET community gurus; developers from Google, Microsoft, JetBrains, StackOverflow, and other companies; the top authors and leaders of the largest Russian developers' communities. The upcoming conference will bring together more than 30 speakers giving their talks devoted to the future of .NET platform, performance and concurrency optimization, CLR and .NET platform inner workings, .NET code profiling and debugging. Besides, the high-quality 1440p online-broadcast allows those who can't reach Saint Petersburg in person to take part in the conference, along with an opportunity to ask speakers any questions.

It has housed soldiers, scientists, and even ravers, but Fort Alexander near St Petersburg now lies abandoned. Magnificent drone footage shows the fortress, named after a Russian Emperor, in its current forsaken state. The structure was built between 1838 and 1845 on an artificial island in the Gulf of Finland. Dramatic drone footage shows the derelict Russian'Plague Fort' near St Petersburg in the Gulf of Finland During the Crimean war the fort guarded the Imperial Russian Navy base in Kronstadt against British and French fleets. But it was never involved in hostilities and lost its military value soon after construction.