The distance from St. Petersburg to Yaroslavl is almost 800 kilometers. In a straight line it is 610 km, and on the highway - 770-790 km. There are many ways to overcome this distance. Their review should begin with the fastest.
Air Travel Option
Flights from St. Petersburg to Yaroslavl are made by S7 airlines. They depart from Pulkovo airport at 08:45 and 15:40, and at the Yaroslavl airport Tunoshna land at 10:15 and 17:10, respectively. Flight takes 1.5 hours. Flights are operated by Embraer 170 aircraft. Tickets are relatively inexpensive, starting at 3,300 rubles.
Return flights from Tunoshna to St. Petersburg will depart at 10:55 and 17:50.
Rail ride
Almost all trains from St. Petersburg to Yaroslavl leave from the Moscow station. Their schedule looks like this:
- 17:45. Passenger train to Ufa or Samara. He travels slowly, 14 hours on the way, but cars of all types, from sedentary to sleeping. stops can be short and long, up to 36 minutes, for example, at the station "Bologoe".
- 18:30. Named train to Ivanovo. The trip is 11.5 hours. It can depart at 19:22. There are no sitting cars.
- 20:00. Train of the 600th numbering. It follows precisely to Yaroslavl.
In addition, there is a rather rare train number 433, which follows from the Ladoga station of St. Petersburg to Kostroma. A trip takes 13.5 hours.
The ticket price depends on the type of car, and there are four of them:
- Sedentary. From 750 rubles.
- Reserved seat. From 890 rubles.
- The compartment. From 1500 rubles.
- Sleeping. From 5500 rubles.
Possible travel option from St. Petersburg to Yaroslavl with a change in Moscow. It can be useful for those who want to take a little walk around the capital, as well as in cases where there are no tickets for direct flights to Yaroslavl or if only the upper places are left, and someone wants to go on the lower one.
Many trains leave from St. Petersburg to Moscow every day. They can connect only two capitals or be transit, for example, through Moscow to Vladikavkaz.
Most trains leave from the Moscow station, but can depart from Ladoga or Vitebsk. This applies to trains that either transit via Petersburg (for example, from Helsinki) or their final stop is not Moscow, but Chelyabinsk, Izhevsk, Adler or Kislovodsk.
The trip can take 4 hours on a high-speed Sapsan and 9.5 hours on some transit train. Tickets are sedentary, reserved, compartment and sleeping. The cheapest ones cost from 750 rubles, but the price may fall even lower due to various shares of Russian Railways.
In Moscow, you can make a transplant directly on the square of three stations. Due to the small distance between cities, it is best to leave in a seated carriage. The schedule for departing trains with seated cars is as follows:
- 07:35;
- 10:05;
- 12:50;
- 14:45;
- 17:05;
- 19:05;
- 21:05;
- 23:20.
The trip takes 3-4 hours. Tickets cost from 500 rubles.
Bus ride
Direct bus flights from St. Petersburg to Yaroslavl, as a rule, are ordered and tourist, so you need to use the possibility of a transfer in Vologda. A trip to it takes about 9 hours, and tickets cost from 800 rubles. The bus departure point in St. Petersburg is the metro station "Dybenko Street", and in Vologda, buses stop near the bus station.
Buses run from Vologda to Yaroslavl from 8 a.m. to midnight. It takes three hours to go, and a ticket costs from 400 rubles. Buses drop off passengers in Yaroslavl at the bus station and at the Faraon shopping center.
Car ride
The road from St. Petersburg to Yaroslavl will take about 10 hours. From the northern capital you need to leave in the east on the E-105 highway and between Stara and Novaya Ladoga turn onto the A-114 highway, which leads through Tikhvin and Cherepovets to the M-8 highway near Vologda. After Vologda, the same route leads to Yaroslavl.
What to see in Yaroslavl?
A relatively large and interesting city, captured on a 1000-ruble note. It will appeal to lovers of archeology and museums. If you just want to take a walk, you can visit the promenade and the park on the arrow.
Of the architectural monuments, the following objects will be interesting:
- Church of St. John the Baptist.
- Church of Elijah the Prophet.
- Tolgsky monastery.
- Vlasyevskaya tower.
- Governor's garden and manor.
Other objects worth seeing are the Music and Time private museum, the Yaroslavl museum and the Tereshkova planetarium.