China city how to get there from education. Reviews of TC Kitai Gorod on Vyborg Highway in St. Petersburg

Staying with friends, late flight or train leaving at three in the morning? We tell you how to get from one end of the city to the other at night using public transport.

Every night - from 00:00 to 05:30 - buses and trams take to the streets on 10 routes: nine buses and one tram. There are also 24-hour routes. Usually the service interval is half an hour, only bus B runs every 15 minutes at night.

They all intersect with each other in convenient places and run along main roads and metro lines. Thus, late passengers can get to their home at the other end of the city, train stations or airports.

How to get there, where to change trains?

The common interchange hub for night buses H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 and M7 is located on Slavyanskaya Square near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. Other routes intersect with them along the way.

You can take the H1 bus, which runs from 00:00 to 05:00, from Ozernaya Street in the south of Moscow to Sheremetyevo Airport. Along the way, you can get off at the Yugo-Zapadnaya, Leninsky Prospekt, Lubyanka, Kitay-Gorod, Tverskaya, Mayakovskaya and Belorusskaya metro stations. Then the route goes along Leningradsky Prospekt parallel to the green metro line.

Route H2 (00:00-05:30) connects the center with Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Mozhaisk Highway, and bus route H3 (00:00-05:30) runs from the Kitay-Gorod station to Ussuriyskaya Street parallel to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya metro line .

By bus H4 (00:00-05:30) you can travel from the center to the Novokosino district in the east of the capital.

Buses N5 (23:35-06:00) run from the Kitay-Gorod metro station to the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with Kashirskoye Shosse. Along the way there are the Taganskaya, Kuzminki and Tekstilshchiki stations, and then the bus turns south to Maryin and Domodedovskaya.

By bus N6 you can get from the Kitai-gorod metro station to the northern stations of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line and Ostashkovskaya street. There is also a 24-hour bus number 15 in Moscow. It runs from the VDNH metro station through the center to the Novodevichy Convent.

Bus B runs around the clock on the outer and inner sides of the Garden Ring, and bus M7 runs from Lubyanka through Kitay-Gorod to Vykhino.

Night tram number 3 can be used from 01:00 to 05:30. It runs from the Chistye Prudy metro station past the Paveletsky station, Tulskaya and the ZIL platform to Akademika Yangelya Street in South Chertanovo. During the daytime, tram No. 3 runs from the Chistye Prudy metro station to Balaklavsky Prospekt.

Simple and convenient

Travel on night transport in the capital is paid for with regular city tickets “United”, “90 minutes”, “TAT”, and a “Troika” card. Cost - from 55 to 65 rubles. All established benefits apply on buses, trolleybuses and trams.

By the way, since the beginning of summer, the number of passengers on night flights has increased by 20 percent compared to the spring months. Since June, about 250 thousand people have already used night routes.

The China City shopping center is located in St. Petersburg at Vyborg highway 503 building 1. How to get to the shopping center "Kitay-Gorod"? You can get there by free minibus and public transport. Free minibuses depart from the Prospekt Prosveshcheniya and Ozerki metro stations.
1. Departure time from Prospekt Prosveshcheniya metro station: 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:40, 14:20, 15:00 , 15:40, 16:00, 16:30, 17:00, 17:30, 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, 21:00, 21 :thirty.
2. Free minibuses depart from the Ozerki metro station according to the schedule: 10:20, 10:50, 11:20, 11:50, 12:20, 12:50, 13:20, 14:00, 14:40, 15 :20, 16:00, 16:20, 16:50, 17:20, 17:50, 18:20, 18:50, 19:20, 19:50, 20:20, 20:50, 21:20 , 21:50, 22:05.
In addition, public transport buses and minibuses stop on request near the China City shopping center: No. 555; 676; 444; 259; 434; 673.

The new shopping center opened in October 2016. It is located on the lower floor of the building, where there used to be free parking. China city attracts buyers with cheap prices for essential goods. Approximate price list for everyday goods:
1. A women’s jacket costs from 2800 rubles, a men’s jacket 3-5 thousand rubles.
2. Trousers for men and women from 700 rubles. Jeans 700 - 1000 rubles.
3. Women's jacket from 600 rubles, men's jumper - from 700 rubles.
4. Women's blouse from 300 rubles, men's shirt - from 400 rubles.
5. Women's tights from 80 rubles. Men's socks from 30 rubles.

The main tenants are Chinese entrepreneurs who decided to develop the St. Petersburg retail market. Starting with dumping of the main groups of industrial goods, they quickly won the sympathy of St. Petersburg residents. You can buy any product 20 - 40% cheaper than a similar item sold in large shopping centers of the northern capital. The secret of cheapness is simple - there are no resellers, the goods come straight from China. When buying, you can bargain; usually sellers drop 50 - 200 rubles, depending on the price of the product.
"China City" stores:
1. Women's outerwear
2. Blouses, dresses, sundresses
3. Men's jackets (all-season), parkas, demi-season coats.
4. Children's toys
5. Fabric store
6. Fishing store. Hunting accessories, clothing.
7. Department of hats, gloves, mittens, tights.
8. Haberdashery. Women's bags, backpacks, purses, belts.

Reviews of TC Kitai Gorod on Vyborg Highway in St. Petersburg

Marina Shanina: Kitay-gorod is an ordinary shopping center, located on the ground floor, where there used to be a parking lot. Among the features I can note are the large retail areas of the stores. Buyers do not jostle with their butts, but can calmly see the goods. The main tenants are Chinese traders, but there are also Russian entrepreneurs, they mainly sell in the aisles. There are a lot of people on weekends and there are clearly not enough parking spaces.

Tatyana Romashkina: The shopping center "China City", or in common parlance "Panda", recently opened on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. “The folk path does not overgrow with him.” At the entrance, a huge Panda greets you. Panda is everywhere. Lots of cute panda toys. The departments are large and spacious. There are a lot of goods. The prices are very reasonable - they make me happy. You can bargain, sellers make discounts, without any promotions. Everyone finds something for themselves, for their family. There are a lot of people. No one leaves without shopping. Buses help out. On weekends it is difficult to find a place for a car.

Sonya Regit: I liked the prices in Kitai-gorod, they are much lower than in St. Petersburg. We bought a jacket for my husband for 4 thousand rubles, in other stores jackets of the same quality cost 8 - 10 thousand rubles. I bought a handbag for my beloved, which I had been eyeing for a long time in the MEGA Parnas shopping center, but the price there was steep. There is a large selection of goods here, the quality is Chinese, like everywhere else, but the price is 30-40% less. There is a good department of bed linen, a lot of shoes, but almost no household appliances.

Kira Novikova: We went to Kitay-Gorod to look at the new shopping center. Overall the review is positive. The goods are really cheap. Right at the entrance there is a hat shop, where I bought a women's mouton hat for 2,100 rubles. In the next store we bought a good quality children's sweater. It must be said that all retail blocks have a large area, so you can choose from a large number of goods. My friend bought children's clothes, but when trying them on at home, some of them did not fit. I was afraid that they would not accept it back, but the sellers returned the money without talking.

Katerina Mirkina: We went on Saturday to check out the new shopping center "China City" (Panda). Immediately there was a problem with parking; there was clearly not enough space for cars. The very center is spacious, wide corridors with shopping islands, and there is a free toilet. There are clothes for every taste, a lot of shoes, children's clothes and toys. If you came with the specific purpose of buying something, you won’t leave without buying something. The prices, of course, were pleasantly surprising; the child bought a transformer for almost 2 times cheaper than in “Children’s World”. Sneakers for my husband again cost 1,800 rubles less than the equivalent from Sportmaster. Small household items like a bath mat cost a penny, I’m even surprised that such prices can exist.

Photo: China Town shopping center, Prisma, Decathlon.

Photo: shops in the China City shopping center.

Area: Vyborg

Address: St. Petersburg Vyborg highway 503 bldg. 1

How to get there: by bus, by minibus

parking: free in front of the shopping center facade

Kitay-Gorod is a large settlement that surrounded the Kremlin from the east. It starts from Red Square (previously considered part of it), borders in the north with Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya Square and Teatralny Proezd, in the east - with Lubyanka and Staraya Squares, in the south - with the Moskva River. Scientists have been arguing for many years and interpreting the name of China Town in different ways. The most important thing is that it clearly has nothing to do with China and translating it into English as “China Town” is wrong. Many are inclined to believe that this is a “medium” city or a “fortress” city like that of the Pechenegs and Polovtsians. In Podolia, where Elena Glinskaya (mother of Ivan the Terrible) is from, the word “china” or “kytai” means fortress. Moreover, in 1538, by her decree, to protect against the invasion of the Tatars and Lithuanians, a large wall was erected around the entire Posad, which included, in addition to the houses of many noble citizens, all merchant shops, trades, or markets, holy churches and Red Square. The wall was built in three years, had a length of approximately 2.5 km, a wall thickness of up to 6 m, a height of about 6.5 m. The wall had 14 towers, the most famous of which are Neglinnaya or Iverskaya (so named after the chapel built later), Troitskaya, Vladimirskaya, Ilyinskaya, Varvarskaya and Moskvoretskaya. The wall stood for almost 400 years and was dismantled in 1932-1935. There are two pieces of the wall left - from Revolution Square behind the Metropol Hotel and from Varvarskaya Square to the embankment. We will start our walk around Kitay-Gorod from the Kazan Cathedral, which opens to Nikolskaya Street.

We look opposite, at the GUM building

Let's go to Vetoshny Lane, to house 7

We will go along the alley to house 11

Let's return to Nikolskaya street

Let's go to the neighboring monastery

Let's turn into Epiphany Lane to look at the beautiful cathedral of the ancient Epiphany Monastery

Let's go back to Nikolskaya Street

We look at the interesting building opposite

The famous Slavic Bazaar hotel borders the building.

Let's turn to the building opposite

Undoubtedly, Tretyakovsky Proezd, which is also closely connected with trade, attracts attention.

We look at the building with columns next to the passage

The last house on Nikolskaya has a very sad history

From here we turn into Bolshoi Cherkassky Lane, so named after the possessions of the Cherkassky princes

Opposite the courtyard is a beautiful house, now occupied by the Central Election Commission

We move on to the next house in the alley

Immediately behind this building is the courtyard of the Koznov-Baskakov merchants

Let's take a look at the corner building

We approach house 5 in Staropansky Lane

Opposite it is the oldest church of Cosmas and Damian

We walk along the alley to Birzhevaya Square

We look at the building on the left

We approach the Exchange building on the other side of the square

We go out onto Ilyinka - the most important banking street in Kitai-Gorod.

A little ahead and to the right we have the Old Gostiny Dvor

• Trade on Ilyinka has been going on since ancient times. Ivan the Terrible resettled all the merchants to Kitay-Gorod, where he ordered the Gostiny Dvor with wooden benches to be built for them. The site of this courtyard, or rather the stone Gostiny Dvor, which appeared to replace the wooden one, was taken up in 1791 by the architects S.A. Karin and I.A. Selekhov to build a new Gostiny Dvor. The project by Giacomo Quarenghi was sent from St. Petersburg. The elegant Gostiny Dvor in the classical style occupied the entire space between Ilyinka and Varvarka, including the old shopping arcades and the former courtyard building. It became a model for Gostiny Dvors in all trading cities of Russia. A giant quadrangle, surrounded by an arcade, towered over the low buildings of Kitay-Gorod. Individual shops were grouped together, but isolated inside by thick walls. Large warehouses and comfortable shops met all the requirements of the Moscow merchants. Only wholesale trade was carried out here.

  We approach house 8 on Ilyinka

• "Embassy Compound"

  Behind the Exchange building, which we have already talked about, there is the building of the Volga-Kama Bank, built by the architect Freudenberg, in a very magnificent style of beautiful eclecticism. In the 17th century on Ilyinka, on the site between the Church of Dmitry Solunsky in Rybny Lane and Nikolsky Lane, was built The Embassy Courtyard is a huge building intended for foreign ambassadors and their retinue. The name “Embassy Court” remained for this site until the revolution of 1917. The courtyard stood here for more than a hundred years and is described in detail in the memoirs of foreigners who visited Moscow during this period. At the end of the 18th century. the property ended up with the merchants A. Pavlov and N. Kalinin. The merchants decide to build a large apartment building. The building project is being developed by architect M.F. Kazakov. On the site of the old Ambassadorial Courtyard, a spacious commercial and residential building appears, built in a classical style - with a portico, Corinthian columns, reminiscent of the Ambassadorial Courtyard with the arched vaults of the first floor windows. The building belonged to two owners and was therefore divided by a main wall into two unequal parts. The building stood in this form until 1888, when the Moscow Merchant Society acquired a plot of land for the construction of two buildings that could be rented out to various commercial enterprises. The reconstruction project was entrusted to the architect B.V. Freudenberg. The building was leased by the Volzhsko-Kama Commercial Bank, which existed here until 1917.

Instructions

There are several flights from Moscow to China. Three of them are Moscow-Beijing, departing from Sheremetyevo Airport. Another Moscow-Sanya. He flies from Domodedovo. Sanya is on the tropical island of Hainan. The flight from Domodedovo is quite popular among tourists who prefer a seaside holiday.

It also runs from Moscow to Beijing. It departs from Yaroslavsky railway station. The train travels for five and a half days. It crosses the entire territory of vast Russia. This trip will be of interest to those who want to take a mini-tour across half the continent.

To buy a ticket to Beijing, you need a foreign passport. It is the only way to sell international tickets. They begin sixty days before the train departs. You can purchase tickets at international ticket offices. They are at every station, but at Yaroslavsky - there will definitely be tickets to China. You can also contact the IRA (International Railway Agency). It is located in Moscow, at the address: Maly Kharitonyevsky lane, 6/11. Ticket sales for the current day begin at eight in the morning.

You can travel from Khabarovsk and Vladivostok to China by ferry along the Amur River. The ferry stops in several cities in China, and most often ends its journey in Seoul. Also from these large Russian cities there are regular flights to Beijing and Seoul. Planes take off every day. Travel time is about three hours.

You can get to China from another Far Eastern city - Ussuriysk. From there there is an international connection to the Chinese border city of Suifenhe. The bus station is located next to the railway station. Therefore, it’s quite easy to get to Suifenhe via Ussuriysk from Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk. This Chinese city is very popular among Russian tourists. There are shopping malls with inexpensive clothing, hairdressers, and massage parlors.

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China is not only one of the largest countries in the world and the most densely populated part of the planet. China has centuries-old traditions, these are special rules of behavior and communication, and therefore those who are going to visit this country as a tourist are simply obliged to familiarize themselves with them.

China attracts tourists from all over the world, first of all, with its centuries-old culture, customs and cultural values. Tourism in China is focused on attracting the attention of the world community to the cultural heritage of the people, the features of unusual architecture, because this country is rightfully considered the cradle of civilization, which has made a huge contribution to the development of world culture. In China, traditions have not changed for many centuries; certain ceremonies are observed, which are radically different from similar ones in other countries. In addition, indigenous people are characterized by special religious canons and beliefs. They have their own, unique view on some things, on the worldview as a whole.

Peculiarities of behavior in China

An attempt to photograph the interior of temples or private houses is considered a much more serious offense, but you can do this in a museum. You can photograph people as much as you like, but only outdoors.

In some cities of the country it is not customary to tip; this can offend the owner of a restaurant or cafe. In Hong Kong, taxi drivers do not give change and do not know English at all, and the tourist must provide them with a note with the address of the place where he needs to go.

Both in small markets and in large markets, it is necessary to bargain; agreeing to buy an item at the appointed price is considered bad form. And you definitely need to smile - the Chinese are very friendly and almost conflict-free people, they are confident that any problem can be solved simply by discussing it and expressing their opinion.

What else do those traveling to China need to know?

When walking along city streets, you need to be extremely careful, since neither motorists nor cyclists, as a rule, follow traffic rules.

And one more feature - you cannot take expensive lighters to China, since they are allowed in there, but not allowed out.

Sources:

• What those traveling to China need to know
• What should a tourist traveling to China know?

China is one of the most interesting countries in the world for independent tourists with an unforgettable atmosphere that combines ancient traditions and cutting-edge technologies. When planning a trip to China, there are a number of tips you should follow.

Obtaining a visa

To travel to China, Russians need an entry visa, which can be obtained through an agency when purchasing a tour or at the consulate if you plan to travel independently. To obtain a visa, you need to submit an application and the following documents: international passport, photo, application form, documents confirming hotel reservations, original and photocopy of insurance certificate (coverage of at least $15,000), photocopy of air tickets or printout of electronic tickets. Visa issuance times vary from 3 to 7 days depending on the urgency of the visa.

Choosing a holiday region

In order to successfully travel around China, it is worth deciding on the direction of your vacation. For a beach holiday and a smooth introduction to the culture of the Middle Kingdom, you should choose Hainan Island. Firstly, a visa to Hainan can be issued upon arrival at the airport, and secondly, Hainan is a tourist area where you can communicate in English or even Russian (there are Russian-speaking travel agencies on the island). When traveling around mainland China, you should immediately take a phrasebook with you, or download an online translator, since residents of the country do not speak English in 90% of cases.

Transport for travel

The choice of transport on which the trip will take place is quite important. Renting a car in China is quite dangerous due to the very chaotic traffic. China has developed buses, excellent rail connections (with high-speed trains), and in addition there is a network of low-cost airlines. If you have a specific plan for visiting attractions and resorts, it is best to select modes of transport for it. Don't forget that smoking is allowed on Chinese buses and trains.

Food while traveling

When traveling around China, you should pay close attention to the national cuisine, known throughout the world. In all populated areas of the country there is a huge number of eateries of different levels: from expensive restaurants designed for tourists to eateries “for their own people”. Since the names of dishes in English will not be on the menu, you can choose from a picture or simply point to the dish you like, which is being eaten at the next table.

Accommodation reservation

Booking accommodation in Chinese cities is also not difficult: in fact, all hotels are listed on two global booking systems Booking.com and Agoda, room rates start from 300 rubles per day for a guesthouse room. You don’t have to book a hotel in advance: in every major city there are entire streets dedicated to travel agencies, hotels and hostels.

Safety

The level of security in Chinese cities is standard for Asia, so it is not recommended to carry all your money and credit cards in one place.