Young people of St. Petersburg, i.e. people of the age of 14 to 25 years, account for 1,052,600 people (22.9 per cent of the population of the city).

Institutions for children with limited health abilities:

• 399 pre-school augmenting institutions, including:
• 6 for children with hearing disability,
• 289 for children with speech disability (with normal hearing),
• 19 for children with vision disability,
• 19 for children with mental disorders,
• 22 for children with problems in motor development,
• 9 sanatorium-type institutions for children with tuberculosis, etc.,
• 55 secondary education institutions, including:
• 26 for children with mental disorders,
• 3 for children with vision disability,
• 4 for children with hearing disability,
• 4 for children with problems in motor development
• 4 for children with severe speech disability,
• 12 for mentally retarded children,
• 2 institutions for home education for invalid children.

Youth institutions for cultural and recreational activities

• 5 secondary education institutions (music and art)
• 70 music and art schools and lyceums
• 30 youth cultural and recreational centers
• 1 educational-methodological center
• 1 kindergarten with emphasis on music and art
• 44 youth centers
• 346 youth clubs for 78,700 children, teenagers and young people, including:
• 80 sports clubs (including 41 youth sports schools)
• 50 esthetic clubs
• 12 military-patriotic clubs
• 204 clubs of mixed specialization
• 143 clubs have places for free informal communication.

Institutions for information support of the youth

• 9 youth information centers

Institutions for youth recreation

• Around 230 youth healthcare institutions (camps), including:
• 101 countryside camps
• 99 daytime camps for schoolchildren
• 19 sports camps and healthcare sports camps
• 4 camps for work and recreation
• around 10 youth summer work centers
• 4 summer daytime work camps in nearby sovkhozes

In total, there are 214,254 children, teenagers and young people recreate annual in the city.