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By bus
Numerous ferries leave for Sweden once a week
on Monday, for Germany once a week on Wednesday, and for Finland three times
a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. There is also a ferry to Tallinn,
Estonia. The journeys take about 14 hours; overnight cabins are available.
Ferries leave from the Sea Passenger Ship Terminal on Vasilyevsky Island.
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By boat
SEA TERMINAL
Morskoy Slavy pl., 1
Tel.: 355-13-10 (B5)
Metro "Primorskaya", trollies N 10,12
RIVERBOAT TERMINAL
Obukhovskoy Oborony pr.,195
Tel.: 262-02-39 (F3)
Metro "Proletarskaya"
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Sights to see
• Kazan (Kazansky) Cathedral
Built in 1801-1811 (architect
Voronikhin) to house the famous miracle-working icon of Our Lady of
Kazan (now kept in the Prince Vladimir Cathedral). Kazan Cathedral was
constructed in a shape of a Latin cross: the side facing Nevsky
Prospect shows a colonnade of 96 columns.
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