Rail transport is rightly considered the cheapest and safest transport for traveling long distances. If you look at the statistics, it’s easy to make sure that traveling by train is much safer than by plane or bus. It is not surprising that this type of transport is very popular.
If you are going to the sea or returning, you will most likely choose between compartment and reserved seats.
Russian railways also offer tickets to the so-called "sleeping cars" or CB. CB cars, for the most part, run in foreign directions. A ticket in them is more expensive than a compartment car (30-40 percent), so they are not particularly in demand by Russian passengers who choose to rest on the Black or Azov Seas.
One of the most difficult trials, especially in the summer, during the holiday season, can be a trip in a stuffy hot carriage, where it is impossible to open the compartment windows. Moreover, to your indignation, such a situation is likely - in the next compartment they enjoy coolness, and you are exhausted from the heat, unable to understand which compartments the windows do not open and in which they can be omitted.
Let's clarify this point. So, in which compartment windows do not open? Oddly enough, the answer is the same, regardless of whether you selected a reserved seat or compartment car. If the car is old, without air conditioning, then absolutely all windows should be opened in the car, with the exception of the side windows.
In addition, those compartments with emergency windows are “locked”. In the reserved seat car this is the third and sixth compartment - emergency exits are located there. The same goes for the compartment car. In the third and sixth compartment, the windows do not open.
Pay attention when you purchase tickets - these are seats 9 to 12 and 21 to 24. Side coupons 49-50 and 43-44 correspond to these compartments.
The new cars are equipped with air conditioning and if you are driving in such a car, the question of which compartment the windows do not open does not arise. After all, windows do not open at all anywhere. Air ventilation is carried out using an air conditioner.
The big disadvantage is that air conditioning only works when the train is moving. In addition, not all passengers know that the conductor can change the temperature of the supplied air, so there’s absolutely nothing to freeze at +18 or to faint from the heat at +27 degrees.
The question of which compartments windows do not open in is by no means the only one that should be taken into account when preparing a trip. Remember that odd numbers are lower shelves, respectively, even numbers are upper. The notorious “upper lateral at the toilet” has number 38. Number 37 is the lower lateral at the toilet, and it is completely unclear what is more comfortable. From the 37th number, the numbering of the side seats begins.
If your height is more than 185 cm, then it is better to buy a ticket for the side shelf - otherwise your legs will stick out into the aisle. And in the first and last compartment, in places 1-2 and 35-36, the legs will even abut against the wall. In this case, the shelf will be shortened by an average of 10 cm. Imagine how you have to crouch?
And take care of the safety of your belongings and shoes - if you occupy the top shelf, then place things and shoes on the third. Have a nice trip!