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Double-decker train launched between Moscow and Novorossiysk
The train departed on its maiden voyage from the capital's Kazansky railway station on October 14.
On October 14, a double-decker train Moscow-Novorossiysk opened. The route includes stops in Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar and other cities.
Novorossiysk is the last city in the south of Russia where double-decker trains do not run from the capital, the Russian Railways press service reports.
Trains 266/265 depart from Moscow daily at 10:00 and arrive in Novorossiysk at 13:02 the following day. The train is scheduled to depart in the opposite direction at 16:55 and arrive in Moscow at 21:05:00 the following day.
The train consists of compartments and SV carriages equipped with air conditioning, drying rooms, individual sockets and other amenities.
The most popular railway routes in Russia last summer were such cities as Anapa, Sochi, Novorossiysk and Kislovodsk, as well as the Crimean coast. The train made 25.4 thousand trips between them. This is 2.5% more than in the same period last year. And a record number of passengers used it - 13.8 million.