At the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport, the operation was first underwent to pay for the service with digital rubles using a QR code, the press service of the Air Gate of the Northern Capital said.

To make a payment, the visitor scanned the QR-code of the smartphone with a camera, chose an option for paying for parking at the airport in digital rubles in the VTB Bank, and confirmed the operation. POS-The terminal received a signal about the successful transaction and printed a cashier’s check.

According to Igor Ostreiko, senior vice president of VTB, the technology allows bank customers to make calculations without a commission using QR codes and payment links.

“We are sure that over time, the digital ruble will become a common way of payment, but today it was the St. Petersburg airport that was the first to introduce this technology for passengers,” said Olga Korokhkin, chief financial director of the “air gate of the Northern capital”.

Pulkovo wants to expand the scope of the use of a new payment option, allowing you to pay a digital ruble to visit the business shafts and the accelerated passage service of control “Fast Track“, Said the company. VTB is a co -owner of the “air gate of the Northern capital.”

Earlier, the same Russian State Bank and the Former company PIK held the first real estate deal using digital rubles to calculate. The VTB client booked an apartment in the New Ochakovo residential complex in Moscow, paying for the digital currency of the Central Bank.