St.Petersburg-Helsinki by St.Peter Line Ferri, August 15

St.Peter Line Ferry Terminal, Saint-Petersburg

St.Peter Line Ferry Terminal, Saint-Petersburg

The St. Peters Line terminal is located on Morskoy Slava Square (the intersection of Bolshoy Prospekt and Cash Street), you can get there by metro to Primorskaya station, then go to Cash Street and take the minibus No. 690 or trolleybus No. 10...read more

Leningrad Marine Station, History and Architecture

Leningrad Marine Station, History and Architecture

The St. Peters Line terminal is located in a building that was built for the management of the Baltic Shipping Company and a hotel for sailors, as well as as a sea station for cruise ships arriving in Leningrad, so it is better known as the "Leningrad Sea Station" or "Old Sea Station"...read more

St. Petersburg-Helsinki Ferry Departure to Cruise

St. Petersburg-Helsinki Ferry Departure to Cruise

The ferry was scheduled to depart at 16: 00, but for some unknown reason it was delayed by an hour. However, this did not affect the time of arrival in Helsinki. Finally, I felt an almost imperceptible vibration on the deck, and brown smoke came out of the exhaust pipes as the main engines started up...read more

Bolshaya Neva Estuary, Saint Petersburg

Bolshaya Neva Estuary, Saint Petersburg

Ahead of the course is the mouth of the Bolshaya Neva, on the left bank of which the Admiralty shipyards are located. The building with a large white gate is an assembly and assembly shop, where the hulls of ships or their individual sections are assembled...read more

Port and Sea channel, Saint Petersburg

Port and Sea channel, Saint Petersburg

Our ferry "Princess Mary" left the terminal St. Peter Line astern and port tugs turned her nose to the Sea channel. The entrance to the channel is marked by a high mast, which is equipped with a radar station "Nevsky gate" and a laser swing lighthouse of the ship's fairway...read more

Kronstadt from Ferry Board

Kronstadt from Ferry Board

The Sea Channel runs along the southern shore of Kotlin Island, located 14 miles (24 km) from the mouth of the Neva River, better known as the Baltic Fleet base Kronstadt...read more

Ship passage structure C1 of the St. Petersburg Dam

 Ship passage structure C1 of the St. Petersburg Dam

The St. Petersburg Dam passes through the central part of Kotlin Island, a complex of protective structures that protect the Northern capital from flooding. On the south side of the island is one of the most important elements of the dam - the C1 ship passage structure...read more

St. Petersburg-Helsinki Ferry. Evening and Morning in the Baltic Sea

St. Petersburg-Helsinki Ferry. Evening and Morning in the Baltic Sea

On the ferry there is a place to spend the evening - there are cafes and bars for tourists, there is a small gambling corner. In the stern is the big club "Columbus", where I went...read more