(Source: http://fresh-ru.ru/news/60)

The end of winter in Vyborg will be celebrated with the beginning of Spring Promenade, which is going to be held from 14 February to 10 May, 2014.

Starting mid-February, residents and tourists are welcome to attend master classes, exhibitions, tours and shows!

February 14-15. Paths of love.
The Promenade starts on St. Valentine’s Day. For lovers (and not only!) there are romantic journeys: the evening excursion "Vyborg – The Path of Love" and sweet get-togethers – Romantics.

February 22-23.
Jousting days in Vyborg.

February 24 - March 2. Pancake week.
Exciting program of the spring meeting with cheerful dancing and burning the Maslenitsa! One will enjoy a fair, wide and cheerful feast; funny seeing off the winter, illuminated with joyful expectation of oncoming warmth and spring renewal of nature. It includes Maslenitsa festivities with games, dances, burning the effigies of Maslenitsa and eating hot pancakes with sbiten.

April 1.
April Fool’s Day at Burger's Barton – an interactive combined tour with team games and contests.

April 26. Easter Week.
Easter flea market for the admirers of retro stuff in the courtyard of Burger's Barton. Clothing, souvenirs, furniture, kitchen items and jewelry!

May 1-10. May Marrymaking. Art Promenade.
All interested persons can attend master classes on various craft techniques at 7A, Progonnaya str.. Spring Promenade opens new exhibition at Art Hall and at "Karelian Isthmus. War of 1939-1944" Exhibition Center. Theatralized meeting with poets and bards of Vyborg and Vyborg District in the courtyard of Burger's Barton – “The Spring Carnival". Ecological path to the station of young naturalists.

Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, 130 kilometers (81 mi) to the northwest of St. Petersburg and 38 kilometers (24 mi) south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland. Vyborg serves as the administrative center of Vyborgsky District.

The Hanseatic city lies in the boundary zone between the East Slavic/Russian and Finnish / Scandinavian worlds and has changed hands several times in history, most recently in 1944 when it was taken by the Soviet Union from Finland during World War II. Vyborg's most prominent landmark is the Swedish built castle, started in the 13th century and extensively reconstructed in 1891–1894. The Round Tower and the Rathaus Tower date from the mid-16th century. The Viipuri Library by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto is a reference point in the history of modern architecture. There are also Russian fortifications, completed by 1740, as well as the monuments to Peter I (1910) and Torkel Knutsson. Tourists can also visit the house where the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin prepared the Bolshevik revolution during his stay in Viipuri from 24th of September to 7th October 1917. Sprawling along the heights adjacent to the Gulf of Finland is Mon Repos, one of the most spacious English parks in Eastern Europe. The park was laid out on behest of its owner, Baron Ludwig Heinrich von Nikolay, at the turn of the 19th century. Most of the garden structures were designed by the architect Giuseppe Antonio Martinelli. Previously, the estate belonged to the future king Frederick I of Württemberg (Maria Fyodorovna's brother), who called it Charlottendahl in honor of his second wife.