"The police of St. Petersburg discovered a major theft of historical values ​​from scientific institutions," - quoted by RIA Novosti Volk.

According to her, on January 6, the police of the Central District received a message about the theft from the building of the scientific institute on the Palace Embankment of 26 items "discovered during archaeological research."

It is clarified that on suspicion of committing a crime on Nevsky Prospekt, the police detained a 23-year-old unemployed resident of the Vyborgsky district of the city.

“In the future, it was established that the attacker was involved in committing similar crimes on the territory of the Vasileostrovsky and Petrogradsky districts of St. Petersburg .... These thefts took place in late December 2020 - early January 2021,” Volk said.

She said that during the search a part of the stolen goods worth about 8 million rubles was seized from the suspect.

As kp.ru writes, on December 29, the wax seal of the 12th century - the Diploma of the Archbishop of Salzburg Eberhard I to the foundation of the hospital, which was stored in a plastic box on a restoration table in a building on the Exchange Line of Vasilyevsky Island, disappeared.

In December, in the Leningrad region, two suspects were detained in a series of thefts of expensive tobacco products and alcohol from grocery stores.