Six preferential categories of residents of St. Petersburg will be able to enjoy the right to free year-round travel in the suburban railway transport. The Act was signed today by the Acting Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov.
Changes to the Social Code of St. Petersburg were reviewed by deputies on the initiative of Alexander Beglov.
Previously, these categories of citizens enjoyed the right to 10% of the cost of the tariff in the summer season.
“The law begins to operate from April 27, and it will work year-round. Absolutely all six categories of residents can ride free on the trains, ”said Alexander Beglov. The head of the city thanked the deputies of the Legislative Assembly for the prompt resolution of the issue. “They did their best; they took the Fa in three readings at once,” the Governor said.
In accordance with the changes in the city legislation, since April 27, the right to free commuter rail transportation throughout the year has been granted to:
1) to persons who have worked in the rear during the period from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945 for at least six months, excluding the period of work in the temporarily occupied territories of the USSR, persons awarded with orders or medals of the USSR for self-sacrificing work during the Great Patriotic War,
2) labor veterans and military service veterans,
3) to citizens who, in accordance with the current federal legislation, are recipients of pensions or have reached the age of 60 and 55 years (for men and women, respectively), who have worked in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) for at least 20 years and have a work experience (in calendar terms) not less than 45 years for men and 40 years for women, excluding periods of work performed by convicts held in prisons and prisons,
4) to persons subjected to political repression and subsequently rehabilitated, and to persons affected by political repression,
5) women who have been awarded the honorary title “Mother-heroine”, women who have given birth and raised 10 or more children, as well as one of the parents (adoptive parents) awarded the order “Parental Glory”,
6) to citizens who, in accordance with the current federal legislation, are recipients of pensions or have reached the age of 60 and 55 years (for men and women, respectively).
Alexander Beglov noted that changes to the Social Code will allow the use of benefits from the budget of St. Petersburg in the amount of the full cost of travel throughout the year.