You can get to St. Petersburg both by train and by bus. In case of departure from a village or small town, you can use the train. In order for money spending to be minimal, and the comfort and pleasure of the trip to be maximized, it is necessary to plan the route correctly.
How to get to St. Petersburg by train
There are 5 operating stations in St. Petersburg, where trains arrive both from Russia and from abroad.
Electric trains and one express train from Luga station arrive at the Baltic station. As for the electric trains, they arrive from different starting points: Oranienbaum, Gatchina, Siverskaya, Kalische, etc.
You can come to Vitebsky railway station from Estonia, Ukraine, as well as from Belarus and the Baltic states - Latvia and Lithuania. Trains arrive in the northern capital of Russia from Riga and Vilnius, as well as from Odessa, Minsk and Brest. You can come to this station from the capital of Ukraine. Trains arrive from Novgorod-Veliky, as well as from smaller stations.
Ladozhsky railway station is one of the main railway stations in St. Petersburg. You can come to the northern capital of Russia from Murmansk, Yekaterinburg, Vologda, Petrozavodsk, as well as from Helsinki. Trains to this station arrive from Adler, Tyumen, and also from Moscow. From the stations Pupyshevo, Volkhovstroy, Svir and others, you can come to this station in St. Petersburg by train.
A lot of trains arrive at the Moskovsky railway station. Sukhum, Moscow, Makhachkala, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Bryansk, Adler - from these stations you can come to St. Petersburg at the Moskovsky railway station. You can get to this station by train from Tosno, Malaya Vishera, Volkhovstroy and others. It should be noted that trains arrive at the Moskovsky railway station from the south of Russia - you can come from Kislovodsk, Novorossiysk, Astrakhan.
There are 3 stations from which you can get to the Finland Station in St. Petersburg: Vyborg, Helsinki and Kuznechnoye. But it is at this station that a huge number of electric trains arrive. Kirillovskoe, Priozersk, Vaskelovo, Zelenogorsk, Petrokrepost - this is not a complete list of stations from which you can come to the northern capital of Russia by train to Finland Station.
How to get to St. Petersburg by bus
There are 5 points where buses to St. Petersburg arrive from different cities. The list of points from where you can get to the northern capital of Russia by bus is extremely extensive. It is worth mentioning such cities as Veliky Novgorod, Vinnitsa, Kiev, Yoshkar-Ola, Chisinau. In addition, bus routes pass through many small stations, from where you can also go to St. Petersburg in this way.
How to get to St. Petersburg by car
In Russia, the network of highways is very developed, and especially at the entrances to such large cities as St. Petersburg. You only need to plan your car route in accordance with its length.
