From the Northern capital, passengers can travel not only by trains and planes to distant destinations, but also by bus to various cities of Russia, as well as to neighboring countries. St. Petersburg bus stations are located in different parts of the city. Which of them are the largest, are more popular? Let's take a closer look.
Bus stations
Bus stations are special complexes that are built to service and organize the transportation of passengers by bus routes. This type of transport is used by many people. What are the requirements for a large bus station? It should serve suburban, city, as well as intercity flights, cooperate with linear and rolling stock. Some suppliers and drivers require cargo protection. At a large bus station, such a place should be provided. The main parts of the airport are: the station building, seats (aprons) intended for boarding as well as disembarking passengers, access roads to aprons (isolated from the common road). In turn, in the building of the bus station should be: a waiting room, ticket office, dining room or buffet, left-luggage office, office space for staff. Often near the station are kiosks, shops. The bus station should have special parking for rolling stocks that are waiting for their flight. A great addition would be your own sink for buses. Not all St. Petersburg bus stations, the addresses of which will be presented below, meet all these conditions. But the largest enterprises are equipped according to all requirements. There are a lot of bus stations in St. Petersburg, here are some data. Bus stations SPb:
- Bus station number 2, the embankment of the Obvodny Canal, 36.
- North in Murino.
- Bus station "Parnas" - 3rd Upper Lane, 23z.
- Ladoga station.
- Bus station on the street Belorusskaya, 15.
- Bus station "Piskarevka" - st. Bryusovskaya, 2.
- Bus station "Happy" - pr. People's Militia, 67-2.
- Bus station "Star" - st. Star, 15.
Central Bus Station
The bus station of St. Petersburg Obvodny is central in the city. Belongs to GUP "Passazhiravtotrans", referred to as station number 2. It is located on the embankment of the Obvodny Canal, 36. It works daily from 8 to 20 hours. You can call by phone: (812) 405-75-17, (812) 766-36-44.
Directions served by bus station 2 (St. Petersburg) are Leningrad Oblast, Moscow, the nearest regions (Pskov, Tver, Novgorod Oblast). Flight to the far region - Saratov region. Near abroad - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland. A total of 79 routes, of which 15 are international.
There is a website and email: info@avokzal.ru.
Get to the bus station
You reach the Obvodny Canal metro station, 400 meters from the metro station. Buses number 74 and number 76 go to the bus station. Tram number 25 and number 49.
Route 74 starts from Smolny, passes through the Moskovsky station, reaches the bus station and then follows to Kupchino. If you need to get from the Moscow station to Obvodnoye, then turn left from Uprising Square, cross Ligovsky Prospekt, before you stop at route 74.
Route 76 almost coincides with route 74. The only difference is that route 76 extends to the Moscow bus station, the opposite route ends in Kupchino, but at a different point.
Bus station "North" (St. Petersburg)
The bus station has the official name "Severny", it is located in the village of Murino, and the nearest metro station is "Devyatkino". It turns out that the people have three names, you can get confused. His address: Station Square, 1 in the village of Murino. Open from 6:30 to 22 hours. You can call by phone: (812) 635-81-58.
Served directions: Karelia (Petrozavodsk), Tikhvin, Primorsk, Priozersk, Lodeynoye Pole, Kirishi, Volkhov, Vyborg and other cities of the Leningrad region. The bus station has its own website.
You can get there by reaching the Devyatkino metro station. Geographically, it belongs to the Leningrad region (it seems that you are in the province). Exit, then a small area and the building in front of you is the Severny bus station (St. Petersburg). It is considered the central bus station of the Leningrad region. Station "Devyatkino" belongs to the St. Petersburg metro, but still the area is too provincial, you will not find much service here.
Discomfort for passengers
Until 2010, the nearest metro station to the bus station was Ligovsky Prospekt, reaching it for more than a kilometer. It was extremely inconvenient for passengers to walk to the bus with large luggage. It was possible to use a special shuttle bus, which was engaged in transporting people to the bus station. The opening of the Obvodny Canal station eased the task, it became much easier to get, the distance was halved. Bus stops for buses No. 3 and No. 26, trams No. 25, No. 46 and No. 16 are located half a kilometer from the bus station. Buses No. 74 and No. 76 will deliver directly to the bus station. At bus number 124, the bus terminal is “Bus Station”, it departs from Theater and Sennaya Square, from Vasilyevsky Island, from Vitebsky Station. 200 meters from the station there is also a bus stop number 170.
The location of the bus station in the center creates the problem of leaving the city. Buses spend more than an hour to leave the territory of the metropolis, overcoming traffic jams. There are projects on moving the bus station to the southern part of the city (Kupchino) and to the east (Kudrovo). For ease of movement, it is planned to open bus stations (St. Petersburg) in all parts of the city. So the Northern Bus Station, opened in 2007, copes with its task perfectly. Without delay, transport departs from it to the cities of the northern and eastern directions. After the St. Petersburg dam was opened, buses went west. In some points (for example, Tikhvin) you can leave from both stations. Buses departing from the North Station in the room have the letter “D” (Devyatkino).
Parnas, VoyageIntour
“Parnas” is a bus station (St. Petersburg), the telephone has the following: (812) 748-27-39. Located at the address: 3rd Verkhny Lane, 23z. What are the areas of service? Primorsk, Vyborg, Priozersk. The station is small, there is a ticket office and a small room for passengers. Convenient for all those who live nearby, no need to get far to the Central Station. The nearest metro station is Parnas.
The VoyageIntur company sends its flights to Tikhvin, also to Kostomuksha via Petrozavodsk from the Ladoga station. Phone: +7 911-823-33-43. The cash desk can be found on the 2nd floor of the Ladoga station. Metro station "Ladoga".
General recommendations
If you need to go on northern routes, it is best to use the services of Parnassus, since it will take you an hour to get out of the city from the Central Station, and if it’s traffic jams, it will take even longer. If you are in the city center, travel measuredly, you have nowhere to rush and there is no point in getting to the northern part of the city, then you will feel relatively more comfortable and cozy at Obvodniy station. Here, passengers are offered all the amenities: a comfortable waiting room, Wi-Fi, a buffet, a convenient location in the city center.