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How to get in Petrozavodsk
How to get in Petrozavodsk
The small Petrozavodsk Airport is located 12 km outside the city and have flights from Moscow-Domodedovo and Cherepovets.
The city is easily reached by train and is located nine hours north-east of Saint Petersburg. The are both day and night trains leaving from Ladozhsky station, a second class sleeper ticket will set you back about 1100 RUB. Moscow is 16 hours away on a over-night service, trains depart from the Leningradsky station with second class tickets costing from 2200 RUB. All trains bound for Murmansk makes stop-overs here so there are long-distance connections with Kaliningrad (44 h), Kiev (41 h), Minsk (24 h) and seasonal trains from Black Sea resorts as Sochi (55 h) which serves mostly tourists getting home. Slow regional trains also connects with various smaller cities in Karelia such as Kostomuksha (13 h) and Suoyarvi (4 h).
There are bus services from Saint Petersburg daily with Avokzal and a international connection from Helsinki with Incoming Finland on Fridays and Sundays. Buses departs from the railway station at 7AM and arrives in Petrozavodsk at 8:30PM. There is also a bus service from Tampere leaving the railway station at 8PM each Monday and Friday and arriving 8:30PM. A one-way ticket costs €40, return €75.
Petrozavodsk is along the M18 highway, also known as Kola Highway which links Saint Petersburg and Murmansk. The road is mostly in good condition but expect long driving distances and few gas stations along the way.
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