The official opening ceremony of the office of the Honorary Consul in St. Petersburg took place in the scopes of the visit of Sri Lanka’s official delegation to St. Petersburg. The event was attended by State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Promotion, Rural and Ayurveda Hospitals Development and Community Health S.Jayakody, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation J. Liyanage, Head of the territorial body - Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg V. Zapevalov, Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg Ev. Grigoriev and Chairman of the Committee for Press and Mass Media Interactions of St. Petersburg V. Ryabovol.