How to arrive in St. Petersburg

By Train from Moscow and some European Cities. For train timetable click here. The Railway Stations are located in the downtown. It takes less than half an hour to get to Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute all of them. The taxi fare is ~20 euro.

 

By Plane. The St. Petersburg's International airport "Pulkovo-2" has daily connections with the main world cities. For plane timetable click here.

Airport - "Saint-Petersburg" hotel transportation
  • Rent-a-car service is available at the airport.
  • Taxi fare from "Pulkovo-2" to the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute does not exceed 1200 roubles (~30 euro).
  • The cheap public transportation using a bus and subway:
    • Take the bus 13 to subway-station "Moskovskaya". It goes with an interval 15-20 minutes at a fare of ~20 roubles (~0.5 euro). The Google map with the bus stop is here.
    • Use the subway from station "Moskovskaya" to the station "Politekhnicheskaya" closest to the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute. The single trip fare is 20 roubles (~0.5 euro). The price does not depend on distance and number of changes. You take the line 2 (blue) and change it to the line 1 (red) at the station "Technologicheskiy institute". The total subway trip takes approximately 45 minutes. The subway map is here.

 

The larger Google map is here.
(The Google maps may not be shown correctly under MSIE 6.0 web browser. In this case see this picture.)