During the Christmas holidays, from January 6 to January 8, about 300 additional long-distance trains were launched in Russia on the most popular routes. This was reported on January 6 in the press service of the Russian Railways holding (RZhD). “From January 6 to January 8, about 1 million Russians will use long-distance trains. Almost
The railway connection is planned to be launched between the Rostov region, Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), according to the governor of the Russian region, Vasily Golubev, on the sidelines of the international industrial exhibition Innoprom. “Obviously, it is planned [to launch a railway connection between the Rostov region, the DPR and
The Face Pay service for paying for travel using face recognition has been launched on October 15 on all lines and stations of the Moscow metro, according to the city’s Deputy Mayor for Transport Maxim Liksutov. “On behalf of the Mayor of Moscow, we are launching Face Pay – paying for travel using face recognition.
On August 9, the ‘Victory Train’ mobile museum arrived at the Omsk railway station. In eight carriages of the train, expositions on the theme of the Great Patriotic War reflecting different periods of the 40s are presented, om1 reports. It is noted that all the tickets for the expositions in Omsk were sold immediately, in
Moscow Mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, and ‘Russian Railways’ General Director, Oleg Belozerov, have opened a new “Vostochny” railway station for long-distance trains, RIA Novosti reports. “Today is a big event, I would say that for the first time in a hundred years, a full-fledged new station is opening, which unites the Kursk direction of the
A thematic train arrived at the Volgograd-1 railway station as part of the campaign “We are the country’s army! We are the army of the people! ”, Held by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the press service of the ministry reports. Guests of the event can visit 17 thematic cars, inside of
On May 1, a cruise train on the route “Hospitable Caucasus. The Great Silk Road” departed from the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow for the first time, RIA Novosti reports. It will be on the way for seven days and six nights and will pass through Novorossiysk, Kislovodsk, Yessentuki, Grozny, Makhachkala, Derbent, and Volgograd. There
The innovative train “Volga” will start running between Nizhny Novgorod and St. Petersburg. The first flight is scheduled for May 8, 2021. The train will include 11 red-grey carriages with a capacity of up to 500 people, NN.ru reports. It is expected that the new train will be able to move freely from one car
The first trip of the “Tavria” (“Taurida”) double-decker train on the route connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg was made today, on May 1, 2021, TASS reports with reference to the Deputy Head of a Separate Subdivision of Grand Service Express in St. Petersburg Margarita Krasnoshchekova. According to Sergey Korneev, the Chairman of the Committee
Military-patriotic action “We are the Army of the Country! We are the Army of the People!” will be held in Tula on Victory Day, RIA News reports with reference to the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Andrey Kartapolov. “In Karelia, on April 29, we will write the “Victory Dictation”, on Victory Day in the city of
The new cruise train Moscow – Rostov-on-Don – Elista – Moscow will start operating on April 22, 2021, according to the press service of Russian Railways. The new tour will be launched as part of the work on increasing the tourist attractiveness of the distinctive regions of Russia. The new cruise train will depart from
For the first time in Russia, contactless fare payment was introduced in suburban traffic on the Moscow-Tver route, the press service of the Russian Railways reports. It is specified that passengers will be able to pay for travel at the turnstile with a bank card or a smartphone with a contactless payment system. It is
Russian tourists named the best trains they had to travel on in 2020, RIA News reports with reference to the Tutu.ru travel service. The company’s specialists studied more than 100 thousand responses that passengers left after travelling from January 1 to December 31, 2020, on 258 routes, and made a rating of the best trains.
