Where to park on the palace square. Parking: which side to approach Peter and Paul Fortress. Fines for illegal parking
Why go? Big cities worlds in which there are real ancient fortresses can be counted on one hand, and you won’t have to take off your shoes. St. Petersburg is included in this short list, and not only is included, but proudly stands on the podium. Only Belgrade, Oslo and Lisbon can compete with it. The Tower of London is very small, the Finnish Suomenlinaa is located in the bay, right next to the devil's horns, go and see it in the distance. A Peter-Pavel's Fortress located right in the city center - look how many you can fit in.
How to get there. The Peter and Paul Fortress stretches in length from west to east. The most convenient way to get to its eastern entrance is from the Gorkovskaya metro station, passing through a pleasant park. Also, tram routes 3 and 6 and buses 46 and 49 pass through the desired area. The Sportivnaya metro station is located closest to the western entrance. From there you will have to walk about 10 minutes. Not far from the fortress gates there are bus routes 10 and trolleybus 7.
How to get. The fortress is surrounded, as expected, by water. You can get to its territory either through Ioannovsky or Kronverksky bridge. The fortress gates are open daily from 9:30 to 21 hours; you can walk around the ring of walls on Hare Island throughout the day, from 6 to 22 hours. Entrance to the fortress is free, you only need to pay for visiting individual attractions - the museum, the casemates of the Trubetskoy Bastion, the Nevskaya Panorama route along the ridges of the walls, etc. Individual tickets cost from 100 to 450. We were able to save money by purchasing a comprehensive two-day ticket for 600 rubles. With its help you can visit five important exhibitions. 
What to do. Walk through the gate (being careful not to hurt your feet on the historical paving stones) and plunge into the atmosphere of the past. The Hare Island on which the fortress was built was personally chosen by Peter I for its foundation. For this, ungrateful descendants erected an eerie monument by Shemyakin in the fortress. It’s hard to imagine what kind of wild imagination you need to have in order to portray a mighty emperor with a tiny head and skinny arms. The disgrace, to my surprise, is usually surrounded by tourists who, without a twinge of conscience, sit on Peter’s lap as if at home for the sake of taking a selfie. Another popular entertainment is a walk along the walls along the Neva. The Nevsky Panorama, as the route is called, allows you to see the panorama of the most beautiful piece of St. Petersburg. Just don’t go upstairs around noon: at exactly 12 o’clock, for many years now, blank cannons have been fired from the Naryshkin Bastion. If you happen to be nearby at this moment, you will be surprised by more than enough impressions.
Entrance to the route "Neva Panorama" I remember how, as a child, the most depressing impression on me was made by an excursion through the bowels of the Trubetskoy Bastion, turned by the tsars into a terrible prison. The conditions in which the prisoners of the fortress lived can impress anyone. 
The interior of the Trubetskoy Bastion looks depressing Having visited everything interesting objects, you need to go out through the gate and walk around the fortress in a circle, marveling at the thickness of the walls. The fortifications were built according to all the rules of military art of that time, Peter I personally monitored the progress of construction. The bastions were specially placed at an angle to each other so that they could shoot at the attacking enemy from all directions. The first fortifications were earthen, then they were covered with stone. As often happens, the efforts of the builders and all the expenses were in vain: during the entire existence of the Peter and Paul Fortress, it never had to go into battle. Nowadays it has become fashionable to relax in free space: in the summer, the beach facing the Neva resembles a seal rookery. In winter there are fewer people, but the “walruses”, who are not afraid of the frost, manage to sunbathe and swim in the ice holes. Nutrition. On the territory of the fortress there is a cafe and many kiosks selling drinks, food, etc. Prices can be judged by the fact that a half-liter bottle of Coca-Cola, the red price of which is 25 rubles, usually sells for 90.
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
Up-to-date information on fines for other violations of the Rules traffic 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 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.
Dear forum users, especially indigenous residents of the northern capital, please tell me what to do with parking in St. Petersburg?
And in particular the following places are of interest: Strelka Vasilyevsky 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 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 with public transport not very good 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 opening of bridges is viewed from 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 (take a 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 about 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. I didn't have this in my navigator locality. 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.
please tell me, let's have 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.
Critically important for Peterhof good weather, so check the forecast the night before, and if sun is expected, go there first. Take food and drink, everything there is outrageously expensive. If you are driving on weekends, you may have problems with parking.
Hare Island, where St. Petersburg began, today resembles a busy crossroads.
Several parking lots have been organized under the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress, traffic jams form on the Kronverksky Bridge, and tourists scurry between cars, which even manage to drive through the gates into the area where the paving stones are laid. The museum management explains this by the congestion of the streets, which are not under their control.
Getting to the fortress territory via the wooden Kronverksky bridge on a fine summer day is not easy. The narrow sidewalks on both sides of the bridge do not accommodate all pedestrians; cars and cars line the roadway bumper to bumper. sightseeing buses. A Novaya correspondent observed how, due to an unsuccessful turn, a bus descending from the bridge towards the fortress formed a huge traffic jam - cars heading out folded their side mirrors and squeezed a few centimeters from the curb. Behind, on the asphalt road along the Kronverksky channel, impatient drivers honked their horns, and tourists scurried about in the middle of this mess.
On the bones
The asphalting of the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the opening of parking lots here at the end of the 2000s was accompanied by a scandal. According to archival data, after the revolution, mass executions were carried out in the fortress, including civilians, since there was a liquidation prison here. From 1917 to 1920, more than a thousand people could have been shot here, and here, on the shore, from the fortress wall to the descent to the water, they were buried.
But the museum’s management, trying to increase the number of visitors, laid the asphalt despite the protests of historians and archaeologists, who argued that the remains of victims of the Red Terror lay in the ground. The construction buckets stopped only when they brought out skulls with bullet holes. However, the work stopped for a short time: a narrow asphalt path, rarely free of traffic, now stretches along the Kronverksky Strait and ends at the parking lot.
“It is absolutely clear that this route passes through part of the necropolis of the execution period Civil War“, says Alexander Margolis, chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments and Culture.
Until now, the question of whether there are remains of victims of the Red Terror under the busy highway and how many there are remains open. The museum has nothing against excavations, but wants those who want to continue searching for the remains to provide evidence that they are there.
“For example, archaeologist Kildyushevsky did not give us a single document that would justify further work,” said Deputy Director of the State Historical Museum Yulia Demidenko. Currently, an anthropological examination of the previously found bones is being carried out by order of the museum, but even their future is unclear: they are kept within the walls of the fortress, and so far no one is thinking about how to bury them and perpetuate the memory of the dead.
On Bridge
“We will lose tourists if we force them to walk with their feet,” says the museum’s deputy director for general issues Sergey Kondratyev. He does not consider the dominance of cars on the territory of the fortress under his jurisdiction to be critical and recalls the times when tourist buses parked towards them from Nevsky Prospekt.
As for the Kronverksky Bridge, which today is both pitiful and a little scary to look at - its wooden foundations are subjected to thousands of tons of pressure every day - Kondratyev is very categorical: “This is a federal facility that is not our responsibility. We can neither expand it nor increase it."
In August 2015, information appeared that Mostotrest recognized the Kronverksky Bridge as unsafe, and some of its elements were 80 percent rotten. In September, Vice Governor Igor Albin convened a meeting on the fate of the bridge, where he invited representatives of four committees (transport, urban planning, cultural and monument protection) and demanded that work be carried out to eliminate accidents before June 1, 2016. So that, at any time, an emergency does not happen .
According to one of the participants in this meeting, Chairman of the Culture Committee Konstantin Sukhenko, partial repairs were made so that the bridge could work. For transport, a limit of 7 tons per axle was established. Now not all buses can pass there, only two-axle ones, and the passage of heavy freight vehicles is prohibited.
By the way, Deputy Director of the State Medical Institute Sergei Kondratyev was also present at the meeting. In a conversation with Novaya, he did not say a word about this, insisting that the ability to get to the fortress by vehicle is an absolute benefit for citizens and tourists.
It is worth noting that excursion buses usually weigh 13.5-19 tons. At the same time, two buses and several cars can be parked at the Kronverk crossing, so the prospects for the monument of federal significance are not bright.
Igor Albin, in turn, believes that the situation today is not so dramatic. Mostotrest carried out repairs to the bridge from October to January without completely closing traffic. We replaced the wooden supports, changed the top layer of the deck, the connections between the beams and spans, and restored the connection between the asphalt and the bridge. Well, of course, we treated everything with an antiseptic. About 10 million rubles were spent for these purposes. These priority emergency measures make it possible to operate the bridge now. “Then we have a program of design, survey, construction and installation works until 2018. I will try to speed up the process as much as possible, because I understand the load the Peter and Paul Fortress takes on,” the vice-governor assured.
Entry into the territory of the fortress for passenger cars costs car owners two hundred rubles, tourist buses- three hundred. The museum and the city make good money from this. At the same time, they are not interested in the purpose of the motorist’s visit to the ticket office. For 200 rubles you can leave your horse for the whole day: from nine in the morning to eleven in the evening. It is unlikely that any parking lot in the city center can offer such conditions. And if paid parking appears on Kronverksky Prospekt in the near future (60 rubles per hour), then there will be a noticeable increase in the number of “museum recreation lovers” among St. Petersburg car owners.
When traveling to the center, car owners wonder where to park and preferably for free. Every year the government of St. Petersburg actively expands paid parking zones and every year the number of temporary parking lots in the city center is reduced.
However, there are still free parking in the center- not always conveniently located, but it’s better to walk 200-300 meters than to take the metro or find a car in a parking lot!
List of free parking lots in the center of St. Petersburg at the following addresses:
- pl. Ostrovsky- free parking on the even-numbered side adjacent to the Anichkov Garden. Lots of free places and CCTV cameras.
- st. Architect Rossi- plenty of parking on both sides of the street without charging a fee. Lots of free places and CCTV cameras.
- emb. Fontanka River- free parking spaces on the odd and even sides from Anichkov Bridge towards Gulf of Finland
- emb. can. Griboyedova- free parking from Gorokhovaya street to st. Lomonosov on the even side
- Bankovsky lane- cars can be parked along the St. Petersburg State Economic University buildings on the even and odd sides under cameras in 3 rows. Parking is especially convenient for students.
- Sadovaya street- free parking on the odd side along Gostiny Dvor and further to Gorokhovaya Street.
Free parking in the center on the map of St. Petersburg
I revealed my secrets and now I risk being left without free parking in the center of St. Petersburg, but, at the same time, I think that 50 rubles per hour of parking in the center is not a big fee... If you came to the center by personal car, pay and work or relax in peace!