In addition to sea trips from St. Petersburg, travel agencies offer their customers the most interesting river cruises. Usually they begin in May, when the ice comes off completely, and the weather stabilizes. The end of the season is traditionally planned for mid-end October.

Such trips are extremely diverse in duration and routes. You can go on a weekend to the island of Valaam or Kizhi. Sometimes the duration of the cruise increases for a day or two, and tourists get the opportunity to visit other islands (Pellotsaari, Konevets), towns (Sortavala) and villages in the national style (Mandrogi).

There are longer and more intensive trips for the week , 10, 14, etc., days. During this time the ship will transport its passengers from St. Petersburg to Moscow, Kostroma, Tver, Kazan and other cities. Routes are most often planned in such a way that the road "there" through Rybinsk, Uglich, Myshkin, Plyos, Yaroslavl was different from the road "back" through Vytegra, Kizhi, Kuzino, Mandrogi.

From some cities, for example, from Nizhny Novgorod, you can return to St. Petersburg by rail.