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The main shops and businesses of St. Petersburg are located on and around Nevsky Prospekt, which has been compared to Paris's Champs-Élysées. While shopping and dining seem to be the major activities occurring along the Prospekt, there are, however, a lot of buildings of note along the way where visitors should stop and take a look, especially at the section between the Admiralty and the Anichkov Bridge.

Starting at the Admiralty, the first building at Nevsky Prospekt № 1 is a magnificent Art Nouveau Building. A bit further east, at №15, you see the Barrikada Cinema, known simply as the 'house with columns' for its colonnaded facade.

Just east of the Moika Canal there is the Stroganov Palace, a pink and white Baroque structure which was completed in 1760 and designed by Italian Court architect Rastrelli. It's where the famous beef dish of the same name was invented!

A bit further across the street there is a Lutheran church with a classical, twin-towered facade. Past the church, you can see the imposing Kazan Cathedral. Built in a semi-circle with ninety-six gigantic columns (visible from the rear due to the mandated westward-facing direction of the altar), this ornate Orthodox Church was once home to the Museum of Religion and Atheism.

Continuing east, there are two more churches on the east side of Nevsky Prospekt: St. Catherine's, an 18th century church and the Armenian Church, a picturesque blue and white structure built in 1780. Across the street you find Gostiny Dvor, a large department store housed in an impressive historic structure with long arcaded halls.

Next to Gostiny Dvor there is a building of the Russian National Library, the second largest in the country. The majestic statue of Catherine the Great graces the bordering square. The statue is placed in front of the Alexandrinsky Theater, designed in neo-Classicist style by Carlo Rossi. Across the wide Fontanka canal you see the beautiful facade of the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace.

The Anichkov bridge spanning the Fontanka canal features a series of four bronze statues of wild horses and their tamers which were, for sixty years, buried for safekeeping, finally being resurrected in 2001. Sculptures designed by Piotr Clodt became one of St. Petersburg's symbols.

Further west Nevsky Prospekt passes along Moskovsky Vokzal (Moscow Railway Station), a large train station originally built in 1851. The street ends at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, famous for its necropolis.