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How
to Phone and to Send a Post in St. Petersburg
st.
petersburg / how
to phone
BASICS.
The phone code of St. Petersburg is 812.
Abroad -
St. Petersburg.
If you're phoning to St.Petersburg, Russia from abroad you should
dial 00 for international access, 7 for the Russian country code,
812 for St.Petersburg code and then the 7-digit number.
St. Petersburg - Abroad. Dial 8, wait for a tone, then dial
10 (international access), then the code of the country, the area
and the phone number. The price of a phonecall to
Europe will be around 20 roubles ($0.7) a minute in the daytime.
In the nighttime and weekends the tariffs are 30 to 50% less.
Russia - St. Petersburg. If you're phoning to St.Petersburg
from some other Russian city, dial 8, wait for a tone, then dial
the St. Pete phone code 812, and then the 7-digit phone number.
The price of a phonecall from Moscow to St. Pete,
for example, is about 4 roubles a minute ($0.15).
St. Petersburg - Russia. If
you're phoning from St. Petersburg to some other Russian city, dial
8, wait for a tone, then dial the code of the city (e.g. Moscow
- 095, Novgorod - 8162), and then the local city number you need.
The price of a phonecall to Moscow will be around 4 roubles a minute
($0.15).
Inside St. Petersburg. If you're in St.Petersburg and calling
inside St.Petersburg, you should dial the 7-digit number without
any codes. The local phonecalls are free.
Calling to a Russian Mobile. Russian mobiles have either
direct (cities they were registred in) numbers, or indirect numbers.
The indirect number is of this form: 8 tone *** *******. The phonecalls
to mobiles registred in St. Petersburg from the local phones are
free. The outcoming and incoming phonecalls from and to a mobile
cost around $0.25 a minute or more.
PUBLIC
PHONES. The "phone" in Russian is "tele`fon".
The public phones are called "taxofon" ("таксофон").
The public phones in St. Petersburg work with chip cards, some pay
phones in the metro work with coins.
There are two systems of public phones in St. Petersburg, each requires
a different type of card.
The phones of one system are installed outside, they are in green
booths, and they work only with chip cards. One minute of a local
phonecall costs about 2 roubles ($0.08). You can buy a phonecard
for 25, 50, 100 units (each unit is one minute) at any metro station
ticket sales offices, or at the newstands. Besides, on each phone
there's info on where's the nearest place to by the card.
The phones of another system are installed in the metro only. They
use either cards or coins (two different types). Don't buy the cards
for these phones, beacuse you'll be limited to using it only in
the metro. Use
coins better - the same price.
HOW TO PHONE
FOR FREE IN ST. PETERSBURG. There's a great option to
phone for free: there's a cafe chain called "Ideal Cup"
(see our Eating Out section), the cafes are
spreaded all around the city. Each cafe has a free phone inside,
which you can use for not more than 3 minutes. Besides, the phones
have phone numbers (obviously), so somebody can phone you at specific
time as well. There are also message desks next to every phone,
so you can leave a message for your friends.
st.
petersburg / how
to send the post
BASICS.
If you want to send something by post from Russia, you can
do it either through government post service or courier services
- the difference is price and speed.
STATE POST SERVICE. The government post system in whole
Russia is unexpensive, not quality enough and slow, either if you
send it inside or outside of Russia. Besides, sometimes the letters
don't come. It'll be ok in the most cases with the parcels though.
How to send
it. You should buy the post stamps at the post offices,
which you can find by "Почта" (Pochta) sign. Post offices
usually work monday - friday from 9.00 to 19.00 and saturday - 9.00
to 17.00, sunday is day off. It costs around 12 roubles (0.5$) to
send a letter in western Europe. For that price your letter will
arrive in around 3-4 weeks.You can send your letter or a postcard
using any of light blue post boxes on the streets or directly at
the post office (better). Sending an average (around 500gm) parcel
costs around $15.
Where to send it from:
Central City Post Services (Pochtamp). International and domestic
post. Less expensive, than courier services. Open: mon-sat 9.00-19.45,
sun 10.00-17.45. Address: Pochtampskaya St., #9 (metro Nevsky Prospekt,
near St.Isaac cathedral and Astoria hotel). Phone: 312-8302
COURIER SERVICES.
Much more reliable, fast, and much more expensive. The
price for a letter if you want it to arrive the next day is $30-$50.
Here are addresses of some courier post service providers in St
Petersburg:
1.
West Post. Least expensive courier services. English speaking,
American managed. St.
Petersburg: #86, Nevsky pr. 191025, telephone +7-812-327-3211,
fax +7-812-275-0806
Internet: http://www.westpost.ru |||
2.
City Express. Saint-Petersburg,
Shpalernaya ul., #24, tel (812) 327-3883 ||| 3. DHL Saint-Petersburg,
Izmailovski prospekt, #4, tel (812) 326-6400 / 326-6410 ||| 4.
EMS Garantpost,
Saint-Petersburg, Konnogvardeiski boul, #4, tel (812) 311-1120
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5. TNT Saint-Petersburg, Moika river embankment (direction
of St Isaac cathedral), #58, tel (812) 118-3330 ||| 6. UPS.
Saint-Petersburg, Shpalernaya ul., #51, tel. (812) 327-8540
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