Russia - General Information

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Introduction

This page is a skeleton containing only basic information about the Russian railway system. Detailed information is available only for the Kaliningrad Oblast General Information. If you can help with information on Russia, please contact us.

Country Name

Russia (Россия)

National railway system

RŽD: Rossiyskiye Železnye Dorogi (РЖД: Российские железные дороги).

Official Website

eng.rzd.ru/.

Language

Russian [Cyrillic characters].

Currency

1 Rouble = 100 Kopeks.

UIC code

numeric: 20; alpha: RUS

Timetable

Journey Planner

Downloadable Timetable

None.

Printed Timetable

No public timetable is published; as far as is known details are merely posted at stations.

Engineering Information

None known.

Maps

On-line Map

(Cyrillic place-names) www.uz.gov.ua/?m=all.road.mapa; sections of Dmitry Zinoviev's "Supermap" of the railways of the former USSR, for example parovoz.com/maps/supermap/supermap.php?X=E&Y=2&LANG=en (see hyperlinked English legend for key to colour-coding and types of line used).

A very small scale map of main passenger routes is available on the RŽD website.

Printed Map

None known.

Gauge

Broad (1520 mm).

Electrification

3 kV dc

Rule of the road

Right.

Other Railways

None.

Tourist Lines

Many cities have a “Pioneer” public narrow-gauge railway that combines a hobby activity for teenagers with practical training in railway operation.

Metro

Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Lebedyan, Moskva, Nizhni Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Samara, St. Peterburg, Volgograd

Trams

Achinsk, Angarsk, Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Biysk, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets, Cheryomushki, Dzerzhinsk, Ekaterinberg, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Izhevsk, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Kolomna, Komsomol, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnotur, Kupan, Kursk, Lipetsk, Magnitogorsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Nizhni Novgorod (Gorki), Noginsk, Novokuznetsk, Novotroitsk, Novocherkassk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orjol/Oryol, Orsk, Osinniki, Perm, Prokop'yevsk, Pyatigorsk, Rostow-na-Donu, Ryanaz, Samara (Kyubyshev), St. Petersberg, Salavat, Shakhty, Smolensk, Sochi, Taganrog, Tomsk, Tula, Tver', Ufa, Ulan Ude, Ul'yanovsk, Usol'ye Sibirskoye, Ustinov (see Izhevsk), Ust'-llimsk, Ust'-Katav, Vladikavkaz, Vladivostock, Volzhskiy, Volchansk\, Volgograd, Voronezh, Yaroslavl', Zlatoust

Recent and future changes

None known.

Special notes

Passenger services on the RŽD railway network are either local or long distance; in principle, two classes of accommodation, known as 'hard' and 'soft' are available. Local services stopping at most or all stations and halts en route do not require reservations, so they have separate ticket office windows.

Long-distance services consist of several coaches divided into compartments, which can be converted into sleeping accommodation for use overnight, and hauled by locomotives. Advance reservation is required for all travel by these trains; intending travellers must present an identity card/passport when making reservations (this is a precaution against 'ticket touts').

Passenger train numbering

Throughout the broad-gauge network of the former Soviet Union, long-distance passenger trains are numbered in the range below 1000, in many cases followed by a letter. The most important trains are numbered below 100. In principle, each train whose destination is to the south and/or west of its origin bears an odd number; the corresponding return working bears the following even number. Note that some run only on alternate days (always odd or even dates at a particular station en route). The schedule for each can be consulted on-line by entering the train number. Local passenger trains are generally numbered in the 6xxx range.

See also