{"id":567,"date":"2020-01-22T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/russiable.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2024-01-06T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T11:46:42","slug":"st-petersburg-public-transport-podorozhnik-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russiable.com\/st-petersburg-public-transport-podorozhnik-card\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg\u2019s Public transport: the Podorozhnik card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The best way to get around St. Petersburg is by public transport, either by metro or by bus. In this article I will tell you about the transport tickets that are worth buying to move around the city in public transport.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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1. Public transport in St. Petersburg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In St. Petersburg you can use the public transport and go to places by metro, bus, trolleybus and also by tram in some areas. In addition, there are some minibuses called Marshrutkas, as well as taxis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.1. The St. Petersburg Metro<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The best way to get around the city is by using the metro<\/strong>, as it is the fastest transportation method. Though the St. Petersburg metro is not as spectacular as the Moscow metro<\/a>, some of its stations are quite state-of-the-art and very worthy to visit<\/strong>: Ploshchad Vosstaniya, Tekhnologichesky Institut, Baltiyskaya, Narvskaya, Kirosvsky Zavod or Avtovo (see photo below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The St. Petersburg Metro is the deepest in the world<\/strong>, the second longest in Russia (after the Moscow metro) and it has 5 lines (with 67 stations), each of which has its own name, though they are often known by their color (the red line, the blue line,<\/p>\n\n\n

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The ticket cost is 55 rubles<\/strong>. The St. Petersburg metro still uses the token system<\/strong> (coins), which can be purchased at the underground ticket offices of each station. The easiest way to get a token is to go to the ticket offices, pay in cash (if you carry the exact amount, the better) and indicate with your hand the number of tokens that you want to buy. In theory, you need to buy another token (55 rubles) if you carry large suitcases, but it is a rule that nobody complies with. You can also buy tokens at vending machines.<\/p>\n\n\n

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