Metro in St. Petersburg

Responses information department of "Subtlety of Tourism"
Metro of St. Petersburg is one of the most convenient types of public transport. Now it covers Peter not completely, to the third part of all areas on it not to reach. But the tourists are quite satisfied with the existing 5 metro lines and its 64 stations. So that the guests of the city can quickly navigate, where to go, in each train car there are subway maps, and on the platforms - information terminals.

To purchase the necessary station, you need to buy a token or a magnetic card. One trip (token) costs 25 rubles, a magnetic card for a week, during which you can take the metro 10 times, cost 210 rubles, a subscription for a month - 1195 rubles. Some of the cards have a ban on re-use within 10 minutes

The stations are opened from 5.30 to 7.00, closed between 22.00 and 0.45. Passengers on the metro are no longer allowed to start, already from 00.00-00.15, at 00.15 the transfer between the lines stops.

As for the design of the stations, it is somewhat inferior to the Moscow one. The most beautiful and original can be called Avtovo, Black River, Ploshchad Vosstaniya, Dostoevskaya, Parnas, Krestovsky Ostrov, Kirovsky Zavod, Zvenigorodskaya and some others.

October 4 2011

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