A delegation from Hanoi led by Phung Thi Hong Ha, Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee and Chairwoman of the Hanoi People’s Council, held a working session with the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg on May 18 during their working visit to Russia.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) will continue promoting people-to-people diplomacy to help deepen the special friendship between Vietnam and Russia through the effective implementation of high-level agreements, VFF Vice President and General Secretary Ha Thi Nga has said.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Dang Minh Khoi received Evgeny Grigoriev, Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of Saint Petersburg city, at the embassy’s headquarters in Moscow on February 17 on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.

A round-table discussion has been held in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, to brief participants on and analyse the outcomes of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), and at the same time, to celebrate the CPV’s 96th founding anniversary (February 3, 1930 – 2026).

The Ho Chi Minh Relic Site at the Presidential Palace and Saint Petersburg State University of Russia on December 2 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation for the 2025–2030 period, marking a new step forward in cultural, educational and research collaboration between the two sides.

The Department of Education and Training of Dien Bien province on July 14 hosted a delegation from Saint Petersburg to discuss prospects for cooperation in education and preparations for sending a group of local students to a summer camp in the Russian city this August.

Governor of Saint Petersburg Aleksander Beglov has signed a decree naming a square in the northern part of Russia’s second-largest city after President Ho Chi Minh.

VOV.VN - A seminar commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Russia (January 30, 1950 - 2025) took place in Saint Petersburg on January 22.

VOV.VN - Dien Bien, a province in north-west Vietnam, and Russia’s second largest city of Saint Petersburg have signed an agreement on trade-economic, science-technology cooperation and socio-cultural exchanges between the two sides.

The Committee for External Relations of Saint Petersburg city on January 23 organised an annual conference in celebration of the 74th anniversary of the Vietnam-Russia diplomatic relations (January 30, 1950-2024).