The trailer will move: railway routes in Russia and trains that are worth a ride at least once

It just so hap­pened that when choos­ing trans­port for trav­el, we first of all think about the plane, and when trav­el­ing short dis­tances — about the car. But, as a rule, in any case, we for­get about the train. Trav­el expert Denis Zavazal­sky decid­ed to cor­rect this mis­un­der­stand­ing by talk­ing about the unique trains that run around Rus­sia and the rail­way routes that deserve atten­tion.

“RED ARROW”

The brand­ed and very famous train has been con­nect­ing Moscow and St. Peters­burg since 1931. The first car­riages of the Red Arrow were made of wood. The com­po­si­tion then includ­ed 12 blue cars. In 1962, their col­or­ing was changed to dark red. The Red Arrow is the first Sovi­et train to fea­ture high-class sleep­ing cars (the so-called SV). In the pre-war years, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the author­i­ties trav­eled by train. For them, a con­ve­nient depar­ture time was set — 23:55. Dur­ing this time, the sched­ule has not changed for a minute. Now the speed of the train reach­es 160 km/h, and it cov­ers the dis­tance between the two cap­i­tals in eight hours.

“RUSKEAL EXPRESS”

A reg­u­lar pas­sen­ger retro train that runs on a steam loco­mo­tive, link­ing the shore of Lake Lado­ga and the Ruskeala field. It con­sists of five cars — includ­ing a din­ing car. Inside, the Express is dec­o­rat­ed in the style of the inte­ri­or of the car­riage, on which the archi­tect Auguste Mont­fer­rand (Isaac’s Cathe­dral and the Alexan­der Col­umn in St. Peters­burg were built accord­ing to his designs) came to Ruskeala. By the way, the mod­ern rail­way from Sor­tavala to Ruskeala runs along the route of the land road, along which mar­ble was deliv­ered from Lake Lado­ga.

“GRAND EXPRESS”

Spa­cious com­part­ments, a high lev­el of ser­vice, com­fort and man­u­fac­tura­bil­i­ty — all this is “Grand Express”. The cre­ators of this train have tak­en into account the max­i­mum num­ber of nuances to take the expe­ri­ence of pas­sen­ger trans­porta­tion to a whole new lev­el. The train has eight ser­vice class­es: Stan­dard, Stan­dard+, Busi­ness, Busi­ness Com­fort, Busi­ness Pre­mi­um, Grand, Grand Impe­r­i­al Sin­gle, Grand Impe­r­i­al. The train runs from Moscow to St. Peters­burg and back at night, which is quite con­ve­nient. Trav­el time is just under nine hours.

TRAIN “TAVRIA”

New car­riages of sin­gle-deck and dou­ble-deck trains “Tavria” fol­low to the Crimean penin­su­la and back. The train of the 3rd class of ser­vice has a SV, a com­part­ment and a reserved seat. In a com­part­ment for two pas­sen­gers — two sofas 60 cm wide each, with indi­vid­ual light­ing. When buy­ing a whole com­part­ment, small ani­mals or a large dog can be trans­port­ed at no addi­tion­al charge for car­riage.

RAILWAY TOURS

Trav­el con­scious­ly, respect­ing the tra­di­tions and cul­ture of the region where you are going.