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Airports & Transport

Where river cruises to Valaam, Kizhi, the Volga and Moscow board. Since the old River Station was demolished in 2012, ships leave…

Airports & Transport

The main intercity bus station of Saint Petersburg, on the Obvodny Canal since 1963, with routes to Pskov, Veliky Novgorod, Petrozavodsk and…

Airports & Transport

The terminus built in 1857 as the Peterhof station, modelled on the Gare de l'Est in Paris, now the main station for…

Airports & Transport

The terminus of the 1870 line towards Finland, where Lenin returned to Petrograd in 1917, now a station for suburban trains to…

Airports & Transport

The oldest railway terminus in Russia, opened in 1837 for the line to Tsarskoye Selo, rebuilt in 1904 as an Art Nouveau…

Airports & Transport

The newest of Saint Petersburg's five main stations, opened in 2003 on Zanevsky Prospekt: the city's only through station, with trains to…

Airports & Transport

The 1851 terminus on Nevsky Prospekt where Sapsan trains leave for Moscow, with a Konstantin Thon facade, a direct exit to the…

Airports & Transport

The only airport of Saint Petersburg, south of the centre in Moskovsky District: one modern terminal for all flights, linked to the…

Metro Stations

The northeastern terminus of Line 6, opened on 26 December 2025 in Kirovsky District and linked by an underground corridor to Kirovsky…

Metro Stations

A Line 5 station built in 2008 but opened only in December 2010, with platform walls of glass-ceramic panels showing old photographs…