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Passenger Terminal or the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment Passenger Ter-
minal. Neither terminal has particularly great facilities, but both are centrally
located and you're within easy walking distance from the sights of the Historic
Heart.
One far less attractive possibility is docking at the
St Petersburg Sea Port
which is the main commercial and industrial port in the city. It's on Gutuyevsky
Island and a long way from anything. There are a few taxi drivers working out
of here, but they can go quickly if a cruise ship arrives, so you may have to
port to the Narvskaya metro station, but reckon on a 30-minute walk through a
fairly miserable industrial area. If you decide to walk, head up Obvodny Canal
and then turn right onto Staropetrogovsky pr and you'll see Narvskaya metro
station on pl Stachek.
Bus
Avtovokzal No 2
St Petersburg's main bus station is confusingly named
Avtovokzal No 2
nogo kanala 36)
, even though there's no Avtovokzal No 1. It has bus connec-
tions to cities all over western Russia, including Veliky Novgorod (
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), but most travellers won't use it. If you do happen to arrive here, it's a
short walk along the canal to the new metro station Obvodny Kanal (Line 5).
Bus Services
9am-9pm; Baltiyskaya)
runs buses from both Avtovokzal No 2 and from outside
the Baltiysky Vokzal. Its buses run very regularly to Tallinn (from R850, 12
daily) and Rīga (from R1000, three daily).
