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ANTARCTIC GEODESY SYMPOSIUM 2001 AGS 01 SAINT-PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 17-21JULY 2001 LOCATION The Symposium will be held at the Conference Hall of the

1 ANTARCTIC GEODESY SYMPOSIUM 2001 AGS 01 SAINT-PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 17-21JULY 2001 LOCATION The Symposium will be held at the Conference Hall of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI). ADDRESS AARI is located at 38 Beringa str., near the Primorskaya metro station. AARI ==================>>

2 REGISTRATION Registration will be conducted on Tuesday 17 th Icebreaker Party. July at 3 p.m. at the AARI site prior to the ICEBREAKER PARTY The Icebreaker Party will be held at AARI on either Tuesday 17 th July at 6 p.m. or on Wednesday 18 th July prior to the starting of the Symposium. HOTELS Please note: All prices are tentative. Prices include buffet breakfast and all taxes. All prices are quoted in US dollars per room per night. ASTORIA HOTEL (5 stars) Single $250 Double $300 GRAND HOTEL EUROPE (5 stars) Single $340 Double $385 SHERATON NEVSKY PALACE (5 stars) Single $300 Double $370 PRIBALTIYSKAYA HOTEL (4 stars) 10 minutes on foot from the place of the venue Single $120 Double $140 MOSCOW HOTEL (3 Stars) Single $67 Double $98 OKTYABRSKAYA HOTEL (3 Stars) Single $40 Double $50 ROSSIYA HOTEL (2 stars) Single $30 Double $36 KIEVSKAYA HOTEL (2 Stars) Single $22 Double $34 NEVA HOTEL (2 Stars) Single $28 Double $42 MORSKAYA HOTEL (2 stars) Single $21 Double $28 TRAVEL INFORMATION Arrival at Pulkovo-2 Airport International flights arrive at the Pulkovo-2 Airport. It would be good if you have a direct flight to Saint-Petersburg. If there is no direct flight, we advise you to fly through Helsinki, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt to our city. We don t recommend you flying through Moscow. For more information on Pulkovo-2 Airport, see:

3 From the Airport to Hotels From the Pulkovo-2 Airport you can reach the Moskovskaya metro station by bus? 13. Then by this metro line you go up to the Nevsky Prospect station. From here you can go: 1) on foot (3-5 min.) to the Grand Europe Hotel (1/7 Mikhailovskaya str., ); 2) on foot (20-25 min.) or by trolleybus? 5 and buses? 3, 22 to the Astoria Hotel (39 Bolshaya Morskaya str., front@astoria.spb.ru); 3) on foot (15 min.) or by any mean of public transport to the Sheraton Nevsky Palace (57 Nevsky pr., reservat@sheratonnevskij.ru), or changing for the Gostiny Dvor metro station, it is the line 3, you go one stop up to the Mayakovskaya station and from here it takes 5 minutes on foot to reach the hotel; 4) from the Gostiny Dvor station, go up by the line 3 to the Primorskaya station from which you can reach on foot the Pribaltiyskaya Hotel (14 Korablestroiteley str., market@pribalt.spb.ru); 5) from the Gostiny Dvor station taking the line 3 you go up (2 stops) to the Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo metro station. From there you can go on foot (2 minutes) up to the Moscow Hotel (2 Alexandra Nevskogo sq., business@hotel-moscow.ru); 6) At the Mayakovskaya metro station you change for the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. From here it takes 3 minutes to go on foot to reach the Oktyabrskaya Hotel (10 Ligovsky pr., fax: +7 (812) ); 7) from the Moskovskaya metro station (for the location, see below) by the line 2 you go one stop up to the Park Pobedy station. From here it takes 10 minutes to go on foot to reach the Rossiya Hotel (11 Tchernyshevskogo sq., fax: +7 (812) ); 8) from the Gostiny Dvor metro station you go up to the Mayakovskaya station. Then you change there for the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. From here you go by trolleybus? 42 or bus? 74 up to the Kievskaya Hotel. It will take some minutes but the hotel is located quite near our office. (49 Dnepropetrovskaya str., fax: +7 (812) ); 9) from the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station you go one stop up to the Tchernyshevskaya station. Then you go by trolleybus? 8 up to the Neva Hotel (17 Tchaykovskogo str., fax: +7 (812) ); 10) from the Primorskaya metro station you go on foot minutes to reach the Morskaya Hotel (1 Morskoy Slavy sq., fax: +7 (812) ); 11) if you inform us a date of arrival to Saint-Petersburg and a flight or train number, we will meet you.

5 Arrival at Railway Stations A train goes from Helsinki, Finland, to Saint-Petersburg that arrives at the Finlandsky Railway Station. You can go from the Ploshchad Lenina metro station (adjacent to the above-mentioned railway station building) up to the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station, here change for the line 3 at the Mayakovskaya station, it is one stop to the Gostiny Dvor and three to the Primorskaya stations. If you come from Germany and Poland, a train arrives at the Warshavsky Railway Station, located near the Baltiyskaya metro station. From there you can go taking the line 1 up to the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station, then change for the Mayakovskaya station. A further route is given above. Taxies From the Airport and Railway Stations you can go to the hotel by taxi. The above-mentioned 5-star hotels maintain their own fleets of cabs for their clients but they charge a considerably high fare. We do not recommend using the services of private car owners. Money GENERAL INFORMATION It is against the law to pay in foreign currency on the territory of the Russian Federation. Your money you can exchange for Russian rubles at the airport, railway stations, hotels, in the larger stores or in currency exchange bureaus. Weather It is unstable in Saint-Petersburg: warm and fine weather is often changed to a cloudy one. An average summer temperature is 21 C, max 32 C. July has long days: about 16 hours 50 minutes of sunlight each day. More general information can also be found at:

Concept on the Provision of free public transport in Saint-Petersburg for the 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA

1 Concept on the Provision of free public transport in Saint-Petersburg for the 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 5. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 7. 7.1. 7.2. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Introduction