Bus / Trams / Trolleybuses (St. Petersburg): these surface transport lines start running by 5:45 am and stop by 12:30 am daily. The fare for these modes of transportation is RUB 25. Some buses have the commercial routes that can cost RUB 35-40. You can buy your ticket right from the driver or ticket collector. […]
Metro (local train) (St. Petersburg): St. Petersburg’s metro existed since 1955. Nowadays it has 5 lines and 67 stations, with this mode of public transport still growing. St. Petersburg’s metro is one of the deepest in the world (50-75 meters; the deepest station, “Admiralteyskaya”, is 86 meters under the surface). Like the Metro in Moscow, […]
Trolleybus: this is another traditional method of public transportation in Moscow – the blue & white colored trolleybuses, going back to the 1930s. These days, it’s considered a very ecological mode of transport. Fares are the same as buses and the Metro. More info on tramway routes can be found at: http://msk.rusavtobus.ru/en/
Tramway: this surface mode of transportation is fading with the past. At the present moment tram roads have been displaced from the Center and there are only 4.5 km of tram roads within the boundaries of the Garden Ring Road. The first trams had literal markings. The fabulous tram service “А” or “Annushka” as it […]
Bus: this is the most popular and most widely spread type of transport in Moscow after the underground (Metro). The first buses appeared in Moscow before Lenin’s revolution, and now 18 bus depots supply about one thousand of different routes. Modern, comfortable buses will not only deliver you to any place in the city but […]
Metro (local train) (Moscow) – this is the fastest, most reliable and least expensive way to get to every place in the capital. Built during the Stalinist era, the Moscow Metro is famous for its architecture and history. Anyone visiting Moscow goes down to the “underground palace” clad in granite and marble to admire mosaic, sculptures […]
Tretyakov State Gallery (10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Moscow) – Moscow industrialist Pavel Tretyakov originally established a gallery of his collection of fine Russian art in 1856, and donated nearly 2,000 works (mostly paintings, along with some drawings and sculptures) to the city of Moscow in 1892. Since then, this gallery, located just a walk away from […]
State Historical Museum (Red Square, Moscow) – this museum, located on the opposite end of Red Square from St. Basil’s Cathedral, lives in the latter’s shadow for most visitors to the Russian capital. Yet it has a strikingly broad and deep collection of exhibits ranging across the millennia and Eurasian history, in addition to its focus […]
Saint Basil’s Cathedral (Red Square, Moscow) – located within the Red Square area of Moscow, this famed cathedral was built to commemorate the capture of the Tatar stronghold of Kazan in 1552, which occurred on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. But the cathedral was popularly known as St. Basil’s Cathedral, after St. Basil […]
Red Square (Moscow) – this famed square separates the Kremlin from the historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. This makes an excellent geographic point of reference for visitors, since this is considered the central square of the Russian capital, and connects to its major highways. Despite its name, Red Square’s name pre-dated the Communist revolution (going […]