Volgograd is an important transportation hub in the south of Russia. It has a significant airport, a river transport route, highways and railway lines pass through the city. At the railway station of Volgograd, trains make a long stop. During this time, it is really possible to fully examine it.
It can be useful for transfers to other trains, especially during the holiday season, when tickets are few.
Local train
The timetable of the Volgograd railway station can be divided into two parts - trains for which the city is a departure and arrival station, as well as passing trains. Local trains are:
- At 17:16, the Day Express departs. He follows to Astrakhan. The trip takes 5.5 hours. A ticket in a sitting car costs from 600 rubles, in a reserved seat - from 770, and in a compartment - from 2000.
- Passenger train to Grozny. It leaves at 21:55 and is in transit 25 hours. Thus, he arrives in Grozny at 10 pm, which is not very convenient. A ticket to Grozny in a reserved seat costs from 1000 rubles, in a compartment - from 1900.
- At 02:07. A fast train leaves for St. Petersburg. Drive to the Northern capital 36 hours. A ticket to the reserved seat costs from 1800 rubles, and in a compartment - from 3600.
- 07:24. Passenger train to Moscow. Ride a day, he arrives at the Paveletsky station. It rarely goes.
- 16:30. Branding for Moscow. The journey is 18 hours. From 1800 there is a ticket in the reserved seat, from 2700 in a compartment, and 8700 in a sleeping car.
- 18:13. Fast train to Moscow, non-branded, on the way is 21 hours. It has cheap seating cars, from 1,100 rubles per ticket. In the reserved seat ticket costs from 1200, and in the compartment - from 2400.
- Composition at Nizhnevartovsk. It leaves at 00:10 and is in transit 63 hours. A ticket to the reserved seat costs from 2900, and in a compartment - from 7200.
Transit trains
There are many of them, especially in the summer months, when seasonal passenger trains to Kislovodsk and the cities of the Black Sea coast follow through the city.
The train schedule of the Volgograd railway station for the south-west direction is as follows:
- 02:16. Summer train to Anapa from Izhevsk or Saratov.
- 05:30. Summer trains from cities in the Asian part of the country to Adler.
- 08:23. Alternating summer and year-round trains to Novorossiysk from Nizhny Novgorod and Saratov.
- 08:41 and 12:38. Summer from Chelyabinsk to Adler and from Ulyanovsk to Anapa.
- 23:55. Year-round from Saratov to Rostov.
Foreign trains
At 22:43 from the railway station of Volgograd, trains of Azerbaijani formation depart. One from Moscow, the second from Kiev. They alternate, rarely, once a week. Drive to the capital of Azerbaijan for 29 hours.
In the opposite direction, that is, to Moscow or Kiev, these trains leave Volgograd at 06:06.
At 03:52, trains from Central Asia to Moscow leave for the capital. This may be a train from Tashkent of the Uzbek formation, as well as rare trains from Dushanbe, Kulyab and Khujand. They are formed by the railways of Tajikistan, they are mainly visited by migrant workers, so it is better not to take tickets for them.
In the opposite direction, that is, trains of the Tajik formation leave for Central Asia at 13:10, and the Uzbek train at 20:59.
Station building features
Like many similar objects, the address of the railway station in Volgograd is Privokzalnaya sq., 1. The station building was re-built after the Second World War - in 1950-1953. It is an example of architecture in the style of the Stalinist Empire. The main entrance is made of granite, bas-reliefs depicting the battles of the Great Patriotic War and the Civil War are installed on its sides.
Inside the station there are two large halls, their streams are decorated with paintings.
The station building has everything you need for passengers: wi-fi, sockets, toilets and a prayer room, as transit through it to Muslim regions takes place.
What to see near the station?
Volgograd train station is located near the Volga embankment and the city center. Opposite it is a memorial historical museum. Immediately after the museum begins Gogol Street. It leads to the beautiful building of the Intourist Hotel and zero kilometer of Volgograd. In the same part of the city you can see the monuments to the tram and Alexander Nevsky. From the zero kilometer you can easily reach the Komsomolskaya station of the local underground tram. Not far from the station there is a bus station from where buses leave for different cities, for example, to Derbent and Grozny.