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Buses: Explore St. Petersburg by marshrutka (minibus)
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  • By HORSCHECK on July 16, 2005
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  • Marshrutka at Nevsky Prospect - Saint Petersburg
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    Besides the local buses, St Petersburg's public transport also consists of marshrutkas (minibuses). They usually follow a fixed route between the city centre and the suburbs. You can hail one or get off wherever you want. The flat fare is displayed on the windscreen and depends on the route, but it is usully something between 10 and 30 Rubles (2005). Just hand the money over to the driver when entering a marshrutka. It can be a bit tricky to use them, but just watch and observe the locals before trying it yourself. If you are unsure feel free to ask the locals. They are usually friendly and helpful. I used a marshrutka together with VT member yumyum to Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin) and found it quite convenient and inexpensive for the 25 km.

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    Buses: Bus Nr 13
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  • Updated By filipdebont on May 26, 2004
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  • Bus Nr 13 - Saint Petersburg
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    After the necessary passport control, I left the airport building towards the bus stop. There I had to wait for a short time till Bus Nr 13 arrived. It was a small yellow bus, and quickly it was filled with travellers who wished to enter the city. Bus Nr 13 brought us from the St Petersburg Airport, Poelkovo 2 towards the Subway station Moskovskaya. Price for the trip from the airport towards the Moskovskaja Metro station : 14 Roubles. (1 Euro = 35 Roubles). By the way you do not need to buy a ticket, just pay the fee to the driver.

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    Buses: Trolley Busses
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  • By filipdebont on May 30, 2004
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  • Trolley bus near Kazan - Saint Petersburg
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    It must be a very special experience to use these Trolley busses. You can see them everywhere, and mostly they are very, very crowded. So it might be a bit dangerous as a tourist, as this a good place to work for the pickpockets. Same as on the busses you do not need to buy a ticket, you need to buy this on the bus.

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    Buses: Bus to Eastern Finnland (Southern Karelia)
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  • By yumyum on July 19, 2005
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  • Russian Bus - Saint Petersburg
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    If you don't want to go to Helsinki then there are other options. I used the bus StP to Lappeenranta and back. There are Finnish and Russian buses. I used the Russian ones on both occassions due to the timetable. Russian citizens get cheaper prices. Foreigners pay in 2005 Euro 31 for one way, or if you are a student at least on the Russian bus you only pay 22 euro. Don't expect anyone to speak English on the Russian bus. Travel time is about 5 hours. Going to Finnland there is a toilet possibility in Vyborg at Hotel Drushba and after passport control on the Finnish side. Coming to StP after the passport control on the Russian side. Don't miss it and you won't be told either.

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    Buses: Minibus
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  • Updated By Natalya2006 on October 20, 2006
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  • Minibuses ("marshrutka") go from every metro stations. This type of transport is private and prices vary from 12 to 17 roubles in the city and may be more if you go to suburbs. Prices and routes usually are indicated on a minibus. You can ask the driver to stop where you want. If you see a minibus and want to stop it raise your hand. Minibuses are good to go to suburbs, prices are about 30 roubles. To Pushkin and Gatchina minibuses go from the metro "Moskovskaya", to Lomonosov, Strelna and Peterhof go from "Avtovo" (number 300, 424 and others). The link below shows the routes of minibuses from metro stations (but only in Russian).

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    Buses: beware of the sardine bus!
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  • By Michael_D on January 14, 2005
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  • busses and trams - Saint Petersburg
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    I only got caught in what I came to call a "sardine bus" one time and I started taking ONLY uncrowded busses or marshrutkas. While some bus routes have new busses(like #150 for instance) many others have busses that are so old it miraculous they are still in service. This one sardine occaison it was raining horribly(which it did often in summer) and people kept JAMMING in every stop. I cant complain because few people own a car and some are so poor,,,I am actually the one who should take alternate transport to be politically correct. But I kept hoping whoever was jammed up my backside was at least a femaleLOL The bus had a leak in the cieling and water was dripping with regularity on one mans head and he actually didnt notice...at least he had a seat I guess LOL.

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    Buses: Saint Petersburg transport
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  • By Michael_D on February 12, 2005
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  • Busses often dont have what number bus stops at what stop. Its best to ask people standing in bus ques. Thats IF you speak Russian because almost surely they wont. I found a #150 bus even my host had never heard of and it stopped very close to the apartment and went to Nevsky by a cicuitous but visually wonderfull route.No one had ever heard of it. BY FAR the biggest irksome facit of St Petersburg transport is the signage for the trams. Look for peeple standing around waiting for transport and look up. IF you are LUCKY there will be a cardboard squares wired to the masses of crisscrossed cables overhead. Also if youre lucky you can make out a number IF thats where a tram stops. Many times the tram will stop at some illogical spot in the middle of a major street. Dont even bother trying to make any logic out of it, there is none. Often its best to just ride a tram to the end and back just to SEE where the stops are. I once spent all day searching/missing a #3 tram that kinda circles from the Vyborg side accross Liteny Bridge over to the university accross the bridge near Peter and Paul Fortress. I would have been better of bicycling. Take a mashrutka if you can.

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  • By Gili_S on June 30, 2007
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    If you can, avoid using buses and mini buses, they are bad, old, crowded and they take as many people as they can get in and you will need to queue and push to get in anyway.

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    Buses: Airport Express
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  • Updated By bugulma on March 27, 2007
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  • Recently I found the bus express to the city from Pulkovo airport. It starts once or twice per hour and the service is available 24 hours! The driver said to me that the time list is changed depending on the month or season, thus it is better to check time in www.airportexpress.ru in advance of your journey to St Petersburg. The bus starts with Pulkovo international, then stops in Pulkovo 1 and then goes to Vitebsky Railway Station (Pionerskaya Railway Station). The bus goes along Moskovsky Prospekt and have stops too near of metro stations Moskovskaya and Tekhnologichesky Universitet. The fee is RUR 70 (EUR 2) to the final destination (Vitebsky Railway Station) and RUR 50 (EUR 1.45) to Moskovskaya metro station.

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    Buses: Public ground transport
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  • By multi on July 25, 2003
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  • buses, trolley buses, trams. Public transport works from 6.00 till 24.00. To ride it one must buy a ticket from the conductor. The cost of one ride is 6 roubles.

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