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A bartender at Baltika Brew bar pours a blue beer for a brave customer at the Octoberfest afterparty on Friday. The blue beer, made using seaweed, was one of several special brews offered in honor of the beer festival.

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Two people take advantage of relatively warm autumn weather to sit outside on Ulitsa Repina on Vasilyevsky Island this week. The first snow in the city is forecast for Friday, with temperatures expected to drop to 2 degrees Celsius.

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Visitors to Rosphoto exhibition center examine works by the German photographer Boris Becker on Friday. The exhibit, which runs through Dec. 16, includes series titled ‘Constructions,’ ‘Landscapes,’ ‘Architecture’ and ‘Bunkers.’

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Members of the I:volution youth organization test the accessibility of city infrastructure for disabled people on and around Nevsky Prospekt in an event titled ‘Access:Nevsky’ on Sunday. The route began at Ploshchad Ostrovskogo and ended at Ploshchad Vosstaniya.

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Actors from the Theater on Stilts brighten the rainy mood for passers-by on Malaya Sadovaya Ulitsa on Sunday.