Where to park your car in Palace Square. The economic crisis forced the parking of cars on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Museum of Defense and Siege of Leningrad
Parking in St. Petersburg is a problem, as in any city overloaded with transport. Parking spaces are clearly not enough for the city of 5 million.
In this regard, the city government has already adopted a bill that parking in the city center, including parking at the side of the carriageway, will be paid.
Beware of leaving your car in the area of the No Stop Sign, even if other cars are already parked there. Your car can be evacuated to an impound parking lot.
Convenient parking spots 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 car park is convenient if you want to walk around for sightseeing or go to one of the restaurants on Nevsky Prospekt. There are almost always places here, unlike the nearby free parking areas. The cost is 150 rubles per hour.
Parking on Konushennaya 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 or Pulkovo-2 airports will cost about 100 rubles per hour and from 700 rubles per day.
Some free parking spots in the city center
Incorrect parking fines
Up-to-date information on fines for other traffic violations 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: in many places parking is only allowed on odd or even 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 whereabouts of the car by calling +7 812 680-33-33 or 004. This number will tell you the address and telephone number of the traffic police department, where you need to get permission to issue it.
By calling the traffic police department, you need to find out where and when you can get permission to receive the detained car. This permit can be obtained after paying a fine for incorrect parking.
With the written permission of the traffic police to issue vehicle you can go to a specialized parking lot, having also with you an identity document and a document confirming the right of ownership of the detained vehicle.
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 that even manage to enter the gate, into the territory where the paving stones are laid out. The management of the museum explains this by the congestion of the streets, which are not in their competence.
It is not easy to get to the territory of the fortress along the wooden Kronverksky bridge on a fine summer day. Narrow sidewalks on both sides of the bridge do not accommodate all pedestrians, and there are cars and sightseeing buses on the roadway bumper to bumper. The correspondent of Novaya Gazeta watched as, due to an unsuccessful U-turn, the bus descending from the bridge towards the fortress formed a huge traffic jam - cars heading for the exit folded side mirrors and squeezed a few centimeters from the curb. Behind, on the asphalt road along the Kronverksky channel, impatient drivers honked, 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 are buried.
But the museum's management, trying to increase the number of visitors, laid asphalt in spite of the protests of historians and archaeologists, who argued that the remains of the victims of the Red Terror lay in the ground. The construction buckets only stopped when the skulls with bullet holes were pulled out into the light. However, the work did not stop for long: a narrow asphalt path, rarely free of traffic, now stretches along the Kronverksky Strait and ends in a parking lot.
« It is quite clear that this route passes through part of the necropolis of the firing squad period of the Civil War.", - said 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 road and how many there are remains open. The museum has nothing against the excavation, but they want those who wish to continue the search for the remains to provide evidence that they are there.
« For example, the archaeologist Kildyushevsky did not give us a single document that would justify further work.", - said Yulia Demidenko, deputy director of the GMI. At present, an anthropological examination of the bones found earlier is being carried out by order of the museum, but even their future is vague: they are stored within the walls of the fortress, and so far no one thinks how to bury them and perpetuate the memory of the victims.
On the bridge
« We will lose tourists if we make them walk.", - said the deputy director of the museum for general issues Sergei 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 to them from Nevsky Prospekt.
As for the Kronverksky Bridge, which today is both a pity and a little scary to look at - its wooden foundations are subjected to thousands of tons of pressure every day - here 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 emergency, and some of its elements rotted by 80 percent. 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 protection of monuments) and demanded that work to eliminate the accident rate be carried out by June 1, 2016 so that the hour is uneven, no emergency happens ...
According to one of the participants in this meeting, the chairman of the Committee on Culture Konstantin Sukhenko, partial repairs were made so that the bridge could work. Transport limits were set at 7 tons per axle. Now, not all buses can go there, only biaxial ones, heavy freight transport is prohibited.
By the way, Sergey Kondratyev, Deputy Director of the State Museum of Fine Arts, was also present at the meeting. In a conversation with Novaya Gazeta, he did not say a word about this, insisting that the ability to get to the fortress by car is an absolute boon for the townspeople and tourists.
It is worth noting that sightseeing buses usually weigh 13.5-19 tons. At the same time, there can be two buses and several cars at the Kronverkskaya ferry, 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 flooring, the connections between the beams and the spans, and restored the adjoining of the asphalt to the bridge. And, of course, they treated everything with an antiseptic. About 10 million rubles were spent for these purposes. These first-priority emergency measures allow the bridge to be operated now. “Then we have a program of design and survey and construction and installation works until 2018. I will try to speed up the process as much as possible, because I understand the workload of the Peter and Paul Fortress, ”the vice-governor assured.
Entry to the territory of the fortress of passenger cars costs car owners two hundred rubles, tourist buses- three hundred. The museum and the city make good money on this. At the same time, they are not interested in the purpose of visiting a motorist at the box 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 even one parking lot in the city center can offer such conditions. And if paid parking (60 rubles per hour) appears on Kronverkskiy Prospekt in the near future, then there will be a noticeable increase in the number of “lovers of museum recreation” among St. Petersburg car owners.
Why go. Big cities the world, in which there are real ancient fortresses, can be counted on one hand, and you won't have to take off your shoes. Petersburg is included in this short list, and is not just included, but proudly stands on the podium. Only Belgrade, Oslo and Lisbon can compete with him. The Tower of London is quite small, the Finnish Suomenlinaa is located in the bay, near the devil on the horns, go see it in the distance. And the Peter and Paul Fortress is located right in the center of the city - see how much it fits.
How to get there. The Peter and Paul Fortress stretches in length from west to east. The easiest way to get to its eastern entrance is from the Gorkovskaya metro station, passing through a pleasant park. Tram routes 3 and 6, buses 46 and 49 also pass through the desired area. The Sportivnaya metro station is located closest to the western entrance. From it you have to walk about 10 minutes. Not far from the gates of the fortress there are routes of bus 10 and trolleybus 7.
How to get. The fortress is surrounded, as it should be, by water. You can get to its territory either through the Ioannovsky, or through the Kronverksky bridge. The gates of the fortress are open daily from 9:30 am to 9:00 pm, you can walk around the ring of walls on the Hare Island during the day longer, from 6:00 to 22:00. The entrance to the fortress is free, you need to pay only for visiting certain attractions - the museum, the casemates of the Trubetskoy bastion, laid along the crests of the walls of the Nevskaya Panorama route, etc. Individual tickets cost from 100 to 450. We were able to save money by buying a complex two-day ticket for 600 rubles. With its help, you can visit five of the most important exhibitions. 
What to do... Walk through the gate (taking care 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 chosen for the foundation by Peter I. For this, ungrateful descendants erected an eerie monument by Shemyakin in the fortress. It is difficult to imagine what kind of wild imagination you need to have in order to portray the mighty emperor with a tiny head and skinny little hands. A shame, to my surprise, is usually covered with tourists, shamelessly sitting on Peter's lap like at home for a selfie. Another popular pastime is a walk along the walls along the Neva. The Neva Panorama, as the route is called, allows you to see the panorama of the most beautiful piece of St. Petersburg. Just do not go upstairs at about noon: at 12 o'clock sharp for many years from the Naryshkinsky bastion they have been firing an idle from a cannon. If you are nearby at this moment, there will be more than enough impressions from the unexpectedness.
Entrance to the route "Nevskaya Panorama" I remember how as a child I was most depressingly impressed by an excursion through the bowels of the Trubetskoy bastion, which was turned by the tsars into terrible prison... The conditions in which the prisoners of the fortress lived can impress anyone. 
The interiors of the Trubetskoy Bastion look depressing Having visited all interesting objects, you need to go out through the gate and go around the fortress in a circle, marveling at the thickness of the walls. The fortifications were built in accordance with all the rules of the military art of that time, Peter I personally followed the progress of construction. The bastions were specially placed at an angle to each other so that you could shoot at the attacking enemy from all directions. The first fortifications were earthen, then they were covered with stones. 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, she never had to fight. Now it has become fashionable to relax in free space: in summer, the beach overlooking the Neva resembles a seals' rookery. In winter there are fewer people, but "walruses", who are not afraid of frost, manage to sunbathe and swim in ice holes. Nutrition. On the territory of the fortress there are cafes and many kiosks selling drinks, food, etc. The prices can be judged by the fact that a half-liter bottle of Coca-Cola, the red price of which is 25 rubles, is usually sold for 90.
Museums of St. Petersburg - the same business card Northern capital, as well as White Nights or the economic forum gathering numerous "VIPs". Portal site names the ten most interesting and famous museums of St. Petersburg and recommends best places for parking next to them.
hermitage Museum
Briefly about the museum. The largest in Russia and one of the world's largest art, cultural and historical museums. For the general public has been open for almost 160 years: since 1852. The collection was formed on the basis of a private collection of works of art by Catherine the Great.
Where is? Palace Square, 2 / Palace Embankment, 34.
Where to park? It is impossible to park a car directly near the museum: Palace Embankment and parking on Palace Square is prohibited. You can park on Millionnaya Street and on the embankment of the river. Washers, 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 yellow the museum is marked, green - the places of possible parking).
Nearby are: Museum-apartment of Pushkin (Moika river embankment, 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 artistic heritage Russian Empire... Opened to the public in 1898 with the highest presence.
Where is? Engineering street, 4.
Where to park? There are small "spots" for parking directly on the Arts Square (directly opposite the museum), but there are not many places on them. You can also park on Italianskaya and Klenovaya streets. In general, the situation is similar to the Hermitage: it is possible that you will have to walk several hundred meters from the parking lot.
Nearby are: Russian Ethnographic Museum (Engineering street, 4/1).
Peter-Pavel's Fortress
Briefly about the museum. The fortress, founded on the Hare Island in 1703 by the project 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; it 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 Kronverkskiy prospect and adjacent streets. On days with a special influx of tourists, you may have to leave your car a few blocks before Petropalovka.
Nearby are: Artillery Museum (Aleksandrovsky Park, 7 - Kronverk of the Peter and Paul Fortress).
Kunstkamera (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography)
Briefly about the museum. The first museum in Russia, founded by Peter I. The collection is based on antiques showing the history and life of many peoples inhabiting the territory of Russia. The Kunstkamera is best known for 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 times of Peter the Great.
Where is? Universitetskaya emb., 3.
Where to park? Compared to other museums in St. Petersburg, the situation is quite good. There is an opportunity to park in the square behind the exchange building, on Birzheviy Proyezd and Mendeleevskaya Line: there are always places there on weekends.
Nearby are: Naval Museum (Birzhevaya Square, 4), Zoological Museum (Universitetskaya Embankment, 1), Menshikov Palace Museum (Universitetskaya Embankment, 15).
Church of the Savior on Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ)
Briefly about the museum. A temple erected on the site where Emperor Alexander II was mortally wounded in an assassination attempt. The cathedral was built in memory of the Tsar-Liberator. Inside the temple, a fragment of the pavement and fencing of the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, stained with the blood of the emperor, have been preserved. The cathedral has been operating as a memorial museum since 1997.
Where is? Nab. Griboyedov Canal, 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 embankment of the river. Washing.
Nearby are: Mikhailovsky Garden, Engineering Castle.
Museum of the 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 centuries and reflects the history of transformations state structure and the 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 a part of Kuibyshev Street and a part of Chapaeva Street, as well as Michurinskaya Street. If you want to visit the nearby "Aurora" and the House of Peter the Great, at the weekend it is better to get up on the Petrogradskaya embankment.
Nearby are: Museum on the cruiser "Aurora", House of Peter I (Petrovskaya emb., 6).
Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic
Briefly about the museum. Founded in 1930 as a special department of the All-Union Arctic Institute. The collection of the museum contains personal funds of researchers, items of equipment for expeditions, instruments, models of ships, dioramas. Among the exhibits are the Sh-2 ice reconnaissance aircraft, the steering wheel and model of the Taimyr icebreaker, the lifebuoy from the Chelyuskin steamer, the model of the first Russian icebreaker Ermak, and the famous Papanin Mauser, sung by Mikhail Weller in one of the Legends of Nevsky Prospect ".
Where is? Marata street, 24a.
Where to park? On weekends, the most realistic (and best option) is Kolokolnaya Street. But on weekdays, finding a place there is unlikely. You can often also get up on Marata Street, but this is how lucky ...
Nearby are: F.M.Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum (Kuznechny Lane, 5), Bread Museum (73 Ligovsky Prospect).
Water museum
Briefly about the museum. One of the youngest museums in St. Petersburg, organized in the city center in a water tower on Shpalernaya Street, built in 1859-1862. Dedicated to and tells about the history, current state and prospects of water supply and sanitation of the city, the use of water in everyday life, 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, therefore, 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 work of machines and mechanisms.
Where is? Sadovaya st., 50.
Where to park? It is 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: Nikolsky Cathedral, Yusupov Garden.
Museum of Defense and Siege of Leningrad
World War II. The collection contains samples of weapons of that time, household items of residents of the besieged city, propaganda posters, documents, maps, newspapers from the period of the battle, documentary evidence of living conditions in besieged Leningrad, paintings and sculptures of the participants in the battle. The museum was closed as a result of the so-called Leningrad affair, many exhibits were destroyed. Restored at the end of the 80s.
Where is? Salt Lane, 9.
Where to park? There are practically no problems, there are many parking places: on Gagarinskaya Street, Gangutskaya Street, Fontanka River embankment. You cannot park directly on Solyany Lane.
Nearby are: Field of Mars, Summer garden, Marble Palace.
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The Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage under the Government of St. Petersburg today, on April 2, considered a project for arranging a parking lot on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Reported by the correspondent IA REGNUM.
As the director of the museum Alexander Kolyakin explained, the decision to organize the parking was "forced". He said that the question 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 facility. Then, due to the lowering of the soil of the Cathedral Square by 40 cm, it was decided that it was impossible to park on this territory.
However, later, the administration of the museum began to receive complaints from tour operators in connection with the fact that they had nowhere to accommodate "millions of tourists who are in a hurry to inspect the fortress." "Today, due to the economic situation, we are obliged not only to reduce entrance ticket prices, but also to organize parking," he said.
According to the recently announced forecasts of specialists, the flow of inbound tourism will decrease by about 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 over the organization of future parking. By now, 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.
According to him, the only possible option for parking is the area near the Kronverkskaya curtain: on the territory of 4.7 thousand square meters, about 30 buses can be accommodated. It is impossible to organize parking outside the Hare Island, as Kolyakin noted.
The project reviewer, 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 sacrifice of the Peter and Paul Fortress." According to him, the entry of cars from the side of the Kronverksky Bridge to Zayachiy Island will radically change the life of the monument. "In order to make such a sacrifice, there must be incredible reasons", - said Margolis. The expert noted that theoretically there are other places on the island for the construction of parking. In particular, he proposed a territory near the Aleksandrovsky ravelin, but explained that it would be difficult to make parking there due to the practice of" games of titled people in the towns. " ...
In turn, Kolyakin confirmed the words of Margolis, and said that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev are playing in the towns on this site.
At the same time, Margolis believes that consideration of another parking area is still necessary, since otherwise "the monument will be sentenced to death." The last argument against the construction of a parking lot near the Kronverkskaya curtain, Margolis called the fact that, according to his information, it was near these walls that the prisoners of the fortress were shot. Moreover, Margolis noted that earlier there were found human remains with corresponding bullet holes.
As a result, the members of the cultural heritage voted to create a parking lot in the specified area. Now the presented sketch will be finalized to the architectural design.
Recall that the Peter and Paul Fortress is located on the Hare Island of St. Petersburg. It was founded on May 16 (27), 1703 according to the plan of Peter I, and it is the historical core of the city. The fortress includes six bastions connected by curtains, two ravelins and a kronverk. The island was connected to the Petrograd side in 1703 by the Ioannovsky bridge.