Smolny Outlines St. Petersburg's Construction Plans

On January 20, at the TASS press center, heads of the St. Petersburg construction complex held a press conference, where they summed up the results of 2025 and outlined plans for the future.

Last year, the city commissioned 2.687 million square meters of housing, which is 4.2% above the planned indicator of the Ministry of Construction (Minstroy). Among this volume, over a thousand objects were individual residential houses.

St. Petersburg surpassed Moscow in the number of commissioned social facilities — schools, kindergartens, and polyclinics. In 2025, 113 such buildings were constructed here, while in the capital — 110. Currently, 116 social facilities are under construction, and this year, 84 are planned to be commissioned, of which 34 will be funded from the budget, and 50 by developers.

Regarding comprehensive territorial development (KRT), no territory for KRT of residential development has been approved in St. Petersburg yet. Locations for other types of comprehensive development — undeveloped and non-residential territories, as well as on the initiative of right holders — have already been included in the new rules of land use and development.

«According to the rules of land use and development, as required by legislation, not a single territory for KRT of residential development has been approved. We will continue to prepare comfortable support for this process in the future, that is, we will make the procedure as clear as possible, focused solely on the interests of citizens,»

Together with Rosatom, the committee for urban planning is developing an accurate three-dimensional model of the city«s development. In 2026, it is planned to expand it by 40% of the total area of St. Petersburg, which will allow, among other things, to introduce a notification procedure for placing signs on facades.

In the current year, the development of a concept for the improvement of the Gulf of Finland coast in the Kurortny District will begin.

«It»s time to work on our recreational zone to make it comfortable, to protect it from disorderly development, and to define recreation areas for residents and guests of the city,«

Metro

By 2030, St. Petersburg plans to complete seven new metro stations, including «Teatralnaya». Main efforts are focused on continuing the brown line from «Putilovskaya» to «Karetnaya» with four stations, where three tunneling shields are working, and a fourth will soon join.

Simultaneously, a shield is advancing from «Karetnaya» to «Ligovsky Prospekt – 2» to ensure access to the future high-speed rail terminal. On the green line, the double-track shield «Nadezhda» has covered 4 out of 4.6 kilometers, and the stations «Bogatyrskaya» and «Kamenka» should open in 2029.

The city company Metroproekt is conducting surveys to build at least one exit from the «Teatralnaya» station, which is also expected in 2029.

Design for the continuation of the orange line through «Gavan» to «Morskoi Fasad» will begin in 2027–2028, so commissioning will occur after 2030. The extension of the line to «Kudrovo» requires federal co-financing, as well as resolution of property issues with the Leningrad Region.

The section of the brown line from «Karetnaya» to «Suvorovskaya» is under development, with its routing defined. However, on the segment from «Yugo-Zapadnaya» to «Sosnovaya Polyana», a paleovalley has been discovered, which calls into question tunnel laying and may lead to the exclusion of the «Brestskaya» station from plans.

Smolny has approved the planning project for extending the purple line to «Kolomyazhskaya», but construction timelines have not been set yet. In the area of future stations in Kamenka, land use rules allow for the construction of residential complexes up to 200 meters high, but this requires approval of deviations from maximum parameters, and construction will not begin there in 2026.

Roads and Bridges

In 2025, 160 kilometers of roads were repaired in St. Petersburg at 90 addresses. On Nevsky Prospekt, a new technology with a reinforcing grid was applied to increase the durability of the pavement.

This year, a section of Nevsky from Vosstaniya Square to Alexander Nevsky Square will be updated using a similar method. Also on the repair list are Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, Sredny Prospekt on Vasilyevsky Island, Universitetskaya Embankment, and Lesnoi Prospekt.

Over the past year, 21 kilometers of tram tracks were repaired, and by 2028, the entire city tram network is planned to be brought to normative condition.

Among the objects built in 2025 are the Bolshoi Smolensky Bridge, the Southern Latitudinal Highway, the Tsimbaliinsky Overpass, the interchange on the M-32 highway, as well as the street and road network in Kronstadt and on the reclaimed land of Vasilyevsky Island.

In 2026, authorities intend to start the reconstruction of Sovetsky Prospekt, construction of the first stage of the Porkhovskaya Interchange, reconstruction of the KAD and Dachnoye Interchange, renewal of Manchester Street and Spirin Street. Additionally, the active phase will begin for the construction of the Makarova Embankment to the Betancourt Bridge.

The project for the Latitudinal High-Speed Highway with a bridge across the Neva has approved documentation, but the choice of general contractor remains with the concessionaire. The object«s commissioning is planned for 2031.

The Bolshoi Smolensky Bridge has a movable span installed, which will begin operation in the 2026 navigation season. Working traffic on the crossing will open in 2027.

For the Novo-Admiralteisky Bridge, a task has been issued to develop a planning project, and the project for the Arsenalny Bridge is included in the planning for the M-7 highway, which is being developed by AO ZSD.

«With the implementation of this concept, every resident will subsequently be able to reach any in-demand part of the city using the framework of continuous movement within 15 minutes,»

«This is the goal.»

Megaprojects

Large infrastructure projects are being implemented with investor involvement. Among them are the marine resort «St. Petersburg Marina» in Gorskaya, the development of Pulkovo Airport, the second stage of the «Slavyanka» tram line to Slavyanka, which should be operational by the end of 2026, the next stage of the Shkiperskaya Interchange of ZSD, ITMO Highpark, and «Island of Forts», whose construction will gradually be completed in 2026.

Separate attention is given to historical buildings, such as the Apraksin Dvor and «Krasny Treugolnik». According to the head of the investment committee, Ivan Skladchikov, one of the buildings of Apraksin Dvor has been transferred for work, and four more are undergoing historical and cultural examination. The territory of «Krasny Treugolnik», which is not a cultural heritage object, will be developed within the framework of comprehensive territorial development.