Transport
You will find public transport of any kind in Saint-Petersburg. There are buses, trolleybuses, trams, trains, huge underground, numerous jitneys. In project there is creating of a river public transport.
On the whole Saint-Petersburg is the center of the local road and railway system, and has a seaport (in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea) and river ports. It is the terminus of the Volga-Baltic Waterway which links the Baltic with the Black Sea.
The city has five major railway stations serving various directions: Baltiysky Rail Terminal, Vitebsky Rail Terminal, Ladozhsky Rail Terminal, Moskovsky Rail Terminal and Finlyandsky Rail Terminal. Saint Petersburg has regular railway connections to Helsinki, Finland via Vyborg (on the Russian side) and Kouvola and Lahti (on the Finnish side). Two beautiful, old-fashioned trains - the Repin and the Tolstoi - as well as the more modern Sibelius operate exclusively on this route.
The city is served by Pulkovo Airport, which carries both domestic and international flights. Saint Petersburg has an extensive public transport system, including the tramway network that is considered the world's largest by track length. The Saint Petersburg Metro (subway/underground) system began operation in 1955 and now includes four lines.
