Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Kievsky vokzal
Kievskaya) serves Kyiv and western Ukraine, as well as points further west, such as Mol-
dova, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Prague, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Greece.
This is also where you'll catch the Aeroexpress to Vnukovo International Airport.
Yaroslavsky vokzal
Komsomolskaya pl; ; Komsomolskaya) serves Yaroslavl, Arkhangelsk, Vorkuta, the
Russian Far East, Mongolia, China and North Korea; some trains to/from Vladimir, Nizhny
Novgorod, Kostroma, Vologda, Perm, the Urals and Siberia; and suburban trains to/from the
northeast, including Abramtsevo and Sergiev Posad.
Kazansky vokzal
Kazan Station
(
http://kazansky.dzvr.ru/en/
; Komsomolskaya pl; ; Komsomolskaya),
at Komsomolskaya pl, serves trains to/from Kazan and points southeast, as well as some
trains to/from Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, the Ural Mountains and Siberia.
GETTING AROUND MOSCOW
Metro
The
Moscow metro
(
www.mosmetro.ru
)
is by far the easiest, quickest and cheapest way of
getting around Moscow. Plus, many of the elegant stations are marble-faced, frescoed, gil-
ded works of art. The 150-plus stations are marked outside by large 'M' signs.
Reliability
The trains are generally reliable: you will rarely wait on a platform for more
than three minutes. Nonetheless, they do get packed, especially during the city's rush hour.
Ticket
Magnetic tickets (R40) are sold at ticket booths. Queues can be long, so it's useful
(and slightly cheaper) to buy a multiple-ride ticket (11 rides for R320 or 20 rides for R520).
The ticket is actually a contactless smart card, which you must tap on the reader before go-
ing through the turnstile.
Maps & Signage
Stations have maps of the system at the entrance and signs on each plat-
form showing the destinations. The maps are generally in Cyrillic and Roman script, al-
