Parking: which side to approach Peter and Paul Fortress. The economic crisis forced parking of cars on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress Peter and Paul Fortress where to park

22.11.2023

Dear forum users, especially indigenous residents of the northern capital, please tell me what to do with parking in St. Petersburg?
And in particular we are interested in the following places: Strelka Vasilievsky Island - we want to arrange an evening or night photo shoot there (weekday), so it is very important to know where you can leave the car? (paid parking is also considered)
1. What is the best way to get to Peterhof? We are staying at a hotel on Kurlyandskaya, 35 (it’s better by car or by public transport, if it’s public, please help with directions) - again we’re talking about a weekday, morning, we want to get there around nine o’clock.
2. Tsarskoe Selo, the question is the same, if by car, can we park somewhere?
3. The Hermitage - the issue of parking.
4. Water park - Primorsky Ave., 72 - parking issue?
5. Where is the best place to see the bridge draw? Again, to have somewhere nearby to leave the car.
6. Where can you have a beautiful photo shoot and take a walk in the evenings?
7. We also plan a trip along the Road of Life (memorial complexes). Tell me how to go so as not to miss anything? Clean along the Road of Life highway?

1. From Kurlyandskaya it’s better by car. There's not much public transport there at all. And if you go in the morning, then just against the main flow of cars that are heading into the city at this time.
I don’t know about parking, but parking is very bad in the center. Especially in the very center, near the Hermitage and on Strelka.

Good afternoon Margarita. I welcome you to this forum. As I already said, parking in the center of St. Petersburg is a lost cause and a problem. There is such a topic where something is named and there are links to sites with addresses of paid parking lots. Unfortunately, they are all far from the center.
1. I already wrote to you - you can look for parking by car and around, where - I wrote or a place where to park. If you go with a navigator, look where the Alexandria Highway runs along the park. In fact, this is a narrow street where buses also park. I think on a weekday you can park your car there, free of charge and without security. There is no particular point in arriving at 9 am, because... launch of the main fountains at 11 am, daily.
2. In Tsarskoye Selo, not far from parks and palaces, there was a parking lot on Fermskoye Highway, not far from the Alexander Palace - see the map.
3. There are no options - drive in circles and look somewhere. Stopping is also prohibited on Nevsky.
4. It’s more free there, I think a place can be found, and there is parking at the shopping center and somewhere nearby on the streets.
5. The bridges are being raised from the Palace Embankment, the problems with parking are the same - drive and look. At night there may be a place on the unguarded free one on Konyushennaya Square.
6.The entire city center around the Neva and in the Nevsky area lives and works all night. Walk, look, choose. You can climb the colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral at night, or just walk along the embankments. Just don’t cross to the other side of the Neva, otherwise you’ll be stuck until the morning.
7. Most of the complexes there are just monuments and memorials - look at them from the outside. At the Ladoga Bridge (this is far outside the city, towards the lake, there is a memorial and a diorama there. But, in my opinion, it works only for excursions upon request. http://www.soldaty.spb.ru/index.php? id=47 It will take almost a day. I recommend that if you go, check first by phone.
If you are interested in the topic of the blockade, you can visit the Piskarevskoye cemetery, a monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad near the metro station. Moskovskaya and the Museum of Defense and Blockade in Solyanoy Lane.

In the evening, you can try to park your car behind the Exchange building on Strelka V.O.
Why go to Peterhof by 9 o'clock? The park opens at 10, the fountains start working at 11. It’s easy to drive - from Kurlyandskaya, turn right along the Old Peterhof Highway through the Obvodny Canal and Stachek Square, exit onto Stachek Avenue and drive along it without turning anywhere all the way to Peterhof.
It takes a long time to explain about Tsarskoe Selo, but there is a navigator, right?
There is no parking at the Hermitage, unless by chance it’s somewhere near the Pevchesky Bridge.
The water park is Piterland. There is free parking under the complex itself.
You need to watch it from Dvortsovaya or Admiralteyskaya embankment so you can go home later. But the parking situation is again an ambush - there will be a lot of buses and the same people wanting to do it.
A photo session can be arranged in Primorsky Park or nearby on Krestovsky Island overlooking the bay. The park itself is closed at night, but you can walk along the shore.
Along the Road of Life - again, it’s impossible to tell without GPS. But the drive is 40 kilometers away from you.

Regarding your question about river walks. I do not advise. Now they are heavily regulated by laws. You cannot enter the Neva after midnight. Therefore, all ships are forced to leave earlier and hang around in the Neva until 1 - 30 am, when the bridges begin to open and then you will be dropped off either at the Descent with Lions next to the Palace Bridge or at the Bronze Horseman - this is opposite St. Isaac's Cathedral. Tickets can be purchased without any problems right before the trip or on the day. There is no parking there, unless there is a parking lot on St. Isaac's Square on the Blue Bridge in front of the Legislative Assembly building. It’s easier and more interesting to watch from the shore, moving along the embankments as needed.

P.3 near the Hermitage there are a few places near the Razvodny Garden, but they are rarely free, you can stand opposite the Hermitage on the embankment, but now everything is busy there with tourist buses, you can on Millionnaya, next to Lenenergo there is parking on the Millionnaya side and along the Field of Mars (you will walk to the Hermitage along a beautiful street). You can stand on the English Embankment, if you go from Dvortsovaya towards the Blagoveshchensky Bridge, there is a small parking lot opposite the Bronze Horseman, and further on the embankment behind the intersection, but look at the signs - there are restrictions. You can also stand on Admiralteysky Prospekt; you can usually find a place there if you drive from Nevsky. There are parking spaces near St. Isaac's Cathedral.
But look at the signs everywhere - tow trucks are committing atrocities there.
P.4, go to the underground parking - there is always space.
Item 5 see item 3
On the VO switch, try on the Mendeleevskaya line, Birzhevoy proezd, on Universitetskaya embankment, in the evening, when there are no student cars, there should be places.

P.2 there is paid parking there, quite expensive. Everyone parks for free on Malaya and Srednyaya streets. Look on the map. Closer to the park. On a weekday, of course, it’s easier.

P.7 The idea of going along the Road of Life to the museum of the same name on Ladoga is excellent. Read my review of this trip.
https://www.otzyv.ru/read.php?id=173282
When I went there, I used a navigator. First I entered the address Vsevolozhsk, Life Road, building (for example) 1. Just for reference. Keep in mind that this road does not have an exit from the roundabout, as it might seem on the map. She walks along the bridge over the Ring Road.
Then the village of Kokorevo was found in the navigator. Where the Broken Ring monument is. From there, turning left, after some time you will arrive in Osinovets at the Road of Life Museum. There was no such settlement in my navigator. The museum is very interesting if you are interested in military topics.
Then we went to Dubrovka to Nevsky Pyatachok and to Kirovsk to the Breakthrough of the Blockade Museum using the navigator to Kirovsk.
Take some food with you.

Tell me, please, we will spend 3 full days in St. Petersburg, by car
Friday, Saturday, Sunday (this week)
planned:
- trip Peterhof-Oranienbaum, and m.b. Kronstadt
- Hermitage
- just walks
Is visiting these places fundamentally different depending on the day of the week? (people, traffic on the roads)
or not to worry, because... there will always be crowds))
Thank you

The last week has shown that there will be a lot of people this year, but I think there will be no critical situations anywhere. The most problematic place is the Hermitage, everything else is quite passable. So, don't worry, but have fun. Unfortunately, you will be able to see very little in 3 days, but the choice of what you can see will be huge.
Good weather is critical for Peterhof, so check the forecast the night before, and if sun is expected, go there first. Take food and drink, everything is outrageously expensive there. If you are driving on weekends, you may have problems with parking.

The Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage under the Government of St. Petersburg today, April 2, reviewed the project for constructing a parking lot on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The correspondent reports this IA REGNUM.

As the director of the museum, Alexander Kolyakin, explained, the decision to organize parking was “forced.” He said that the issue of the location of vehicles at the Peter and Paul Fortress was removed about two years ago, after the completion of the reconstruction of the site. Then, due to the lowering of the soil of the Cathedral Square by 40 cm, it was decided that parking in this area was impossible.

However, later the museum administration began to receive complaints from tour operators due to the fact that they had nowhere to accommodate “millions of tourists rushing to see the fortress.” “Today, due to the economic situation, we are obliged not only to reduce entry ticket prices, but also to organize parking,” he noted.

According to the recently announced forecasts of experts, the flow of incoming tourism will be reduced by approximately 50%, and instead of the traditional 3-6 days of stay in St. Petersburg, the duration of a visit to the city will be reduced to one day. According to Kolyakin, due to the fact that “tourists are the main income of the museum,” the leadership of the fortress was forced to make concessions and think about the organization of future parking. To date, according to the director of the museum, official passes to the territory of the fortress have been issued for 700 cars. “During the season, up to 40 buses arrive at the fortress at a time, and up to 200 buses a day,” he said.

The only possible parking option, according to him, is the area near the Kronverkskaya curtain: an area of 4.7 thousand square meters can accommodate about 30 buses. It is impossible to organize parking outside of Hare Island, as Kolyakin noted.

A reviewer of the project, the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments and Culture, Alexander Margolis, called the voiced idea “a prank and a sacrifice of the Peter and Paul Fortress.” According to him, the entry of cars from the Kronverksky Bridge onto Hare Island will radically change the life of the monument. “There have to be incredible reasons for making such a sacrifice,” Margolis said. The expert noted that theoretically there are other places on the island for the construction of parking. In particular, he proposed an area near the Alexander Ravelin, but explained that it would be difficult to create parking there due to the practice of “titled people playing town.”

In turn, Kolyakin confirmed Margolis’s words and said that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the country’s President Dmitry Medvedev are playing town in this area.

At the same time, Margolis believes that consideration of another parking area is still necessary, since otherwise “the monument will be given a death sentence.” The last argument against the construction of a parking lot near the Kronverk curtain was the fact that, according to his data, it was near these walls that prisoners of the fortress were shot. Moreover, Margolis noted that human remains with corresponding bullet holes had previously been found there.

As a result, members of the cultural heritage council voted to create a parking lot on the specified territory. Now the presented sketch will be finalized into an architectural design.

Let us remind you that the Peter and Paul Fortress is located on Hare Island in St. Petersburg. It was founded on May 16 (27), 1703 according to the plan of Peter I and is the historical core of the city. The fortress includes six bastions connected by curtains, two ravelins and a crownwork. The island was connected to the Petrograd side in 1703 by the Ioannovsky Bridge.

The museums of St. Petersburg are as much a calling card of the Northern capital as the White Nights or the economic forum, which brings together numerous VIPs. Portal website names the ten most interesting and famous museums in St. Petersburg and recommends the best parking spots next to them.

Hermitage

Briefly about the museum. The largest art, cultural and historical museum in Russia and one of the largest in the world. It has been open to the general public for almost 160 years: since 1852. The collection was formed on the basis of the private collection of works of art of Catherine the Great.

Where is? Palace Square, 2/Dvortsovaya Embankment, 34.

Where to park? It is impossible to park a car directly near the museum: parking is prohibited on Palace Embankment and Palace Square. You can park on Millionnaya Street and the river embankment. There are sinks, but there are no guarantees that a place will be found quickly. You may have to leave your car on the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal or on Malaya Morskaya Street. (Note: on all maps the museum is indicated in yellow, and possible parking areas are in green).

Located nearby: Pushkin Apartment Museum (embankment of the Moika River, 12).

State Russian Museum

Briefly about the museum. The world's largest museum of Russian art. Founded by the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II in honor of his father, Alexander III, to perpetuate the memory of the latter and create a complete collection of the artistic heritage of the Russian Empire. Opened to the public in 1898 in the highest presence.

Where is? Inzhenernaya street, 4.

Where to park? There are small parking spots directly on Arts Square (directly opposite the museum), but there are not many spaces in them. You can also park on Italianskaya and Klenovaya streets. In general, the situation is similar to the Hermitage: you may have to walk several hundred meters from the parking area.

Nearby are: Russian Ethnographic Museum (Inzhenernaya Street, 4/1).

Peter-Pavel's Fortress

Briefly about the museum. A fortress founded on Hare Island in 1703 according to the design of Peter I and the French engineer Joseph Lambert de Guerin. Historical center, the “heart” of St. Petersburg. The famous main political prison of Russia was located in the fortress. The fortress became a museum in 1924 and is part of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.

Where is? Hare Island opposite the Winter Palace.

Where to park? The best option is Kronverksky Avenue and the streets adjacent to it. On days with a special influx of tourists, you may have to leave the car a few blocks before Petropalovka.

Nearby are: Artillery Museum (Alexandrovsky Park, 7 - crownwork of the Peter and Paul Fortress).

Kunstkamera (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great)

Briefly about the museum. The first museum in Russia, established by Peter I. The collection is based on antiquities that show the history and life of many peoples inhabiting the territory of Russia. The Kunstkamera gained its greatest fame thanks to its collection of anatomical rarities and anomalies. The building in which the museum is located has been a symbol of the Russian Academy of Sciences since the time of Peter the Great.

Where is? Universitetskaya embankment, 3.

Where to park? Compared to other museums in St. Petersburg, the situation is quite good. It is possible to park in the square behind the exchange building, on Birzhevy Proezd and the Mendeleevskaya Line: on weekends there is always space there.

Nearby are: Naval Museum (Birzhevaya Square, 4), Zoological Museum (University Embankment, 1), Menshikov Palace Museum (Universitetskaya Embankment, 15).

Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ)

Briefly about the museum. The temple was erected on the site where Emperor Alexander II was mortally wounded as a result of an assassination attempt. The cathedral was built in memory of the Tsar-Liberator. Inside the temple, a fragment of the pavement and the fence of the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, stained with the blood of the emperor, are preserved. The cathedral has been operating as a museum-monument since 1997.

Where is? Nab. Canal Griboyedov, 2.

Where to park? You can park directly on the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal only with a fair amount of luck. A more realistic option is parking on Arts Square, Italianskaya or Inzhenernaya streets, Konyushennaya Square and the river embankment. Sinks.

Nearby are: Mikhailovsky Garden, Engineering Castle.

Museum of Political History of Russia

Briefly about the museum. The first historical and political museum of post-revolutionary Russia. Founded in 1919. The collection contains evidence of the political life of Russian society from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century and reflects the history of transformations of the state structure and political system of the country and the fate of the most prominent historical figures.

Where is? Kuibysheva street, 4.

Where to park? The most convenient option is on part of Kuibysheva Street and part of Chapaev Street, as well as Michurinskaya Street. If you want to visit the nearby Aurora and the House of Peter I, it is better to stand on Petrogradskaya Embankment on the weekend.

Nearby are: Museum on the cruiser "Aurora", House of Peter I (Petrovskaya embankment, 6).

Arctic and Antarctic Museum

Briefly about the museum. Founded in 1930 as a special department of the All-Union Arctic Institute. The museum's collection includes the personal funds of researchers, elements of expedition equipment, instruments, ship models, and dioramas. Among the exhibits are the ice reconnaissance aircraft "Sh-2", the steering wheel and model of the icebreaker "Taimyr", a lifebuoy from the steamer "Chelyuskin", a model of the first Russian icebreaker "Ermak", as well as the famous Papanin Mauser, glorified by Mikhail Weller in one of the " Legends of Nevsky Prospekt.

Where is? Marata Street, 24a.

Where to park? On weekends, the most realistic (and optimal option) is Kolokolnaya Street. But on weekdays, finding a place there is unlikely. You can often get up on Marat Street, but it depends on your luck...

Nearby are: Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky (Kuznechny Lane, 5), Museum of Bread (Ligovsky Prospect, 73).

Water Museum

Briefly about the museum. One of the youngest museums in St. Petersburg, organized in the city center in the water tower on Shpalernaya Street, built in 1859-1862. Dedicated to and talks about the history, current state and prospects of water supply and sanitation of the city, the use of water in everyday life, and the state of water resources.

Where is? Shpalernaya st., 56.

Where to park? The museum is located in the so-called “government” area of the city near Smolny, so directly on Shpalernaya Street, for example, parking is generally prohibited. You can get up at the intersection of Shpalernaya and Tavricheskaya streets, as well as (and this option is better) on Tverskaya and Stavropolskaya streets.

Nearby are: Smolny Cathedral, Suvorov Museum (Kirochnaya St., 43).

Railway Museum

Briefly about the museum. One of the oldest technical museums in the world. Founded in 1813. The collection contains more than 50 thousand items telling about transport science and railway technology, as well as showing the operation of machines and mechanisms.

Where is? Sadovaya st., 50.

Where to park? It’s better to get up either on Sadovaya Street or on Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue. Quite often there are places available right next to the museum, especially on weekends.

Nearby are: St. Nicholas Cathedral, Yusupov Garden.

Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad

Patriotic War. The collection includes samples of weapons of that time, household items of residents of the besieged city, propaganda posters, documents, maps, newspapers from the battle period, documentary evidence of living conditions in besieged Leningrad, paintings and sculptures of participants in the battle. The museum was closed as a result of the so-called Leningrad affair, many exhibits were destroyed. Restored in the late 80s.

Where is? Solyanoy lane, no. 9.

Where to park? There are practically no problems, there are plenty of parking spaces: on Gagarinskaya Street, Gangutskaya Street, the embankment of the Fontanka River. You cannot park directly on Solyany Lane.

Nearby are: Field of Mars, Summer Garden, Marble Palace.

The map is provided by the Yandex.maps service.

Parking in St. Petersburg is a problem, as in any city overloaded with transport. There are clearly not enough parking spaces for a city of five million.

In this regard, the city government has already adopted a bill stating that parking in the city center, including parking at the side of the road, will be paid.

Beware of leaving your car in the area covered by the “No Stopping” sign, even if other cars are already parked there. Your car may be towed to an impound lot.

Convenient parking spaces in the city center

There are several underground parking lots in the center of St. Petersburg. As a rule, they are located under large shopping centers (Stockmann, Gallery). The cost of 1 hour of parking is about 150 rubles.

This secure parking lot is convenient if you want to go sightseeing or go to one of the restaurants on Nevsky Prospekt. There are almost always spaces available here, unlike nearby free parking areas. The cost is 150 rubles per hour.

Parking on Konyushennaya Square

Paid guarded parking is located next to the Cathedral of the Savior on Spilled Blood and the largest souvenir market. The cost is 150 rubles per hour.

Parking in the parking lot of Pulkovo Airport or Pulkovo-2 will cost approximately 100 rubles per hour and from 700 rubles per day.

Some free parking spots in the city center

Fines for illegal parking

Current information on fines for other violations of traffic rules can be found on the traffic police website.

The cost of evacuation, which is about 3,000 rubles, is legally paid by the owner of the car.

Be careful: many places only allow parking on even or odd days of the week. Violation of this regime entails the same sanctions as parking in a prohibited place!

If you cannot find the car where you left it:

Try to find out about the location of the car by calling +7812 680-33-33 or 004. This number will tell you the address and telephone number of the traffic police department where you need to obtain permission to issue it.

By calling the traffic police department you need to find out where and when you can get permission to receive a detained car. You can obtain this permit after paying a fine for illegal parking.

If you have written permission from the traffic police to issue a vehicle, you can go to a specialized parking lot, also having with you an identity document and a document confirming the right of ownership of the detained vehicle.

Hermitage

Where is? Palace Square, 2/Dvortsovaya Embankment, 34.

Located nearby: Pushkin Apartment Museum (embankment of the Moika River, 12).

State Russian Museum

Where is? Inzhenernaya street, 4.

Nearby are: Russian Ethnographic Museum (Inzhenernaya Street, 4/1).

Peter-Pavel's Fortress

Where is? Hare Island opposite the Winter Palace.

Where to park? The best option is Kronverksky Avenue and the streets adjacent to it. On days with a special influx of tourists, you may have to leave the car a few blocks before Petropalovka.

Nearby are: Artillery Museum (Alexandrovsky Park, 7 - crownwork of the Peter and Paul Fortress).

Kunstkamera (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great)

Where is? Universitetskaya embankment, 3.

Nearby are: Naval Museum (Birzhevaya Square, 4), Zoological Museum (University Embankment, 1), Menshikov Palace Museum (Universitetskaya Embankment, 15).

Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ)

Where is? Nab. Canal Griboyedov, 2.

Nearby are: Mikhailovsky Garden, Engineering Castle.

Museum of Political History of Russia

Where is? Kuibysheva street, 4.

Nearby are: Museum on the cruiser "Aurora", House of Peter I (Petrovskaya embankment, 6).

Arctic and Antarctic Museum

Where is? Marata Street, 24a.

Nearby are: Literary and Memorial Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky (Kuznechny Lane, 5), Museum of Bread (Ligovsky Prospect, 73).

Water Museum

Briefly about the museum. One of the youngest museums in St. Petersburg, organized in the city center in the water tower on Shpalernaya Street, built in 1859–1862. Dedicated to and talks about the history, current state and prospects of water supply and sanitation of the city, the use of water in everyday life, and the state of water resources.

Where is? Shpalernaya st., 56.

Nearby are: Smolny Cathedral, Suvorov Museum (Kirochnaya St., 43).

Railway Museum

Where is? Sadovaya st., 50.

Where to park? It’s better to get up either on Sadovaya Street or on Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue. Quite often there are places right next to the museum, especially on weekends.

Nearby are: St. Nicholas Cathedral, Yusupov Garden.

Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad

Where is? Solyanoy lane, no. 9.

Nearby are: Field of Mars, Summer Garden, Marble Palace.

The map is provided by the Yandex.maps service.