Getting to St.Petersburg

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Saint-Petersburg Transport System

Being an important tourist and business centers of Russia, St.Petersburg is a bustling metropolis with a thoroughly developed transport system allowing both citizens and visitors to get a place destination using minimal time and effort.

Getting to St.Petersburg

By air

There are two major airports located close to St.Petersburg: Pulkovo 1 and Pulkovo 2. Domestic flights and flights from CIS countries as well as international charter flights arrive to Pulkovo I, while Pulkovo II is an international airport located closer to St. Petersburg, about 5 km from Pulkovo 1 airport. Both airports have all the necessary facilities, including shops, banks, ATMs, currency exchange, airlines offices, business center, luggage storage (opened 24 hours); the Pulkovo II has been recently modernized.

To get to the Pulkovo I airport on your own, one should either take bus #39 from Moskovskaya Metro station, a marshrutka or take a taxi. To get to the Pulkovo II airport on your own, you should take bus #13 from Moskovskaya Metro Station (about 10-15 minutes ride), take a mini-bus marked "T-13" or take a taxi. There is also a marshrutka #K-213 from Sennaya Ploshad metro to Pulkovo 2 airport. A taxi to/from an airport costs about 25EUR/30USD or more, depending on the time of the day.

By Train

You may also come to St.Petersburg by train, which is relatively cheap. There are 5 train stations in St. Petersburg, all of them located in the center, near the metro stations, and are easy to access. To get from/to Scandinavian countries it's better to use a daily train that used to arrive to Finlandsky station (local trains directions: Vyborg, Repino, Zelenogorsk) and nowadays come to Ladozhsky railway station (directions: Helsinki (Finland), Petrozavodsk, Vologda, Arkhangelsk, Vorkuta, Urals, Kazakhstan.). To travel to/from Moscow by train, you will need to get to Moscovsky railway station (directions: Novgorod, north of Russia (Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Murmansk), Urals (Ekaterinburg), South Russia (Krasnodar), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan), Caucasus (Azerbaidzhan, Armenia, Georgia), which is in the middle of St. Petersburg main street - Nevsky Prospect.

Suburban trains to Pushkin and Pavlovsk, trains to Ukraine (Kiev, Odessa), Belorussia (Minsk, Brest), Moldavia, Novgorod and Smolensk, some local trains (Pushkin, Pavlovsk) depart from Vitebsky railway station; Varshavsky railway station which used to be the departure place of trains to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine (Lvov), Poland, is turned into a museum and entertaining center nowadays. Local trains to Gatchina, Lomonosov and a lot of other places arrive to Baltiisky railway station. All the train stations in St. Petersburg, have all the necessary facilities: luggage storage (24h), bank, ATM, post office, rent-a-car, business center (with internet access). It usually takes about 10-20 minutes to buy a ticket for a long-distance train, and 5 minutes to buy a ticket for a suburban train. You need to show your passport to buy a long-distance train ticket.

By boat

Travelling by boat can be one of the most exciting and easy ways to come to St.Petersburg – since a tourist does not need a visa while buying a cruise to the city as he/she would spend every night on board the cruise ship. Passenger sea vessels dock at the Maritime Passenger Terminal, located on the west side of Vasilievsky Island, in the very end of Bolshoi Prospect. In summer river cruisers between Moscow and Petersburg run along the Volga and across Ladoga Lake; and these ships dock at Petersburg’s River Terminal.

By bus

To get from / to Baltic and Scandinavia states it's convenient to use comfortable buses, offering a cheaper alternative to the train. There quite a number of coaches departing daily from the central St. Petersburg Bus Station, located on Naberegnaya Obvodnogo Kanala, 36, and Eurolines terminal situated near Baltiyskaya metro station.