The Passenger Port of St. Petersburg (russian: Пассажирский порт Санкт-Петербург) is a passenger

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Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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. It was completed on 27 May 2011 and was officially handed over to the

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. It is located on reclaimed alluvial territories of the

Marine Facade The Sea (Marine) Facade is a project of additional expansion of St. Petersburg, on Vasilievsky Island at the Neva river's mouth. In these new territories the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg will be created along with a considerable amount of resi ...

of Vasilevsky island fronting the

Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland ( fi, Suomenlahti; et, Soome laht; rus, Фи́нский зали́в, r=Finskiy zaliv, p=ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif; sv, Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and E ...

on the

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History

The necessity of building a new passenger terminal was caused by the inability of the existing Marine Terminal for cruise ships longer than 200 meters. As a consequence, large passenger ships arrived in the commercial port of St. Petersburg. In 2002, the St. Petersburg administration has proposed to build a modern complex for the reception of cruise ships. The corresponding government order to begin construction of the marine passenger terminal was signed in 2005,

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Mikhail Fradkov Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov ( rus, Михаи́л Ефи́мович Фрадко́в, p=mʲɪxɐˈil jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ frɐtˈkof; born 1 September 1950) is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007. An In ...

. In 2006 Marine facade Company has built: * 35 hectares of reclaimed land; * The technological channel on water area of seaport for building of moorings; * Access technological road; * The dividing dam. By July 2007, 28th the educational sailing vessel named "

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" was moored at berth number seven. In 2008 two moorings, building the cruise terminal and coastal constructions necessary for work are constructed and transferred in the summer. On September, 10th, 2008 the port accepted the first passenger cruise liner a 16-deck Italian vessel named "

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". In 2009, On August a

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line to Peterhof and

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was started. In 2011 work on the passenger port was completed and the newly completed Marine Facade sea passenger port was officially handed over to the city government.

References

{{Ports of Russia Gulf of Finland Ports and harbours of Russia