The city of Yaroslavl is included in the famous Golden Ring of Russia. This is one of the oldest and most beautiful Russian cities. We see its sights whenever we look at a banknote of 1000 rubles.
Yaroslavl Station Yaroslavl-Glavny is a real calling card of the ancient city. Anyone who intends to visit him will benefit from the following information.
Directions
There are two railway stations in the city. The main one is the Yaroslavl-Glavny station. In addition, there is Yaroslavl-Moscow.
At the main station of the city there are 4 railway platforms, 3 of which are island and 1 lateral. Access to the first platform is through the station building, and to the rest - through an underground tunnel.
This large transport hub has direct communication with many cities of Russia and abroad. Long-distance trains go through Yaroslavl to Moscow and Abakan, St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk, Anapa and Novorossiysk, Minsk, Labytnangi, Chita, Ufa and other settlements. Travel time to Moscow is 3.5-5 hours.
Suburban trains also depart from here. Electric trains are sent to Kostroma, Ivanovo, Danilov, Alexandrov and Rybinsk.
Opening hours and services provided
The address of the railway station Yaroslavl-Glavny cannot be forgotten, because it sounds almost identical: Yaroslavl-Glavny square, 1A.
The station receives passengers around the clock. Train travel documents can be issued at the long-distance ticket offices or at the self-service terminal . Cash desks work on schedule with technological interruptions.
At the box office number 7, in addition to tickets for long-distance trains, you can issue a travel document for international routes. The cash desk is open from 11 to 19 hours with technological breaks. Weekends: Saturday and Sunday.
Ticket offices are located in the main building.
At the Yaroslavl-Glavny train station, travelers can use the standard services:
- to issue or hand over the travel document;
- to leave luggage and hand luggage for storage;
- get a certificate of fare and rail transportation (including written);
- use the rest room and the room of the mother and child;
- reserve a room for receiving an official delegation;
- make photocopies, etc.
Also in the building of the station are cafes, shops, ATMs, a linear police department, a first-aid post, and a toilet. Wi-Fi is running and the free video mail service "Video Newsletter". To get the necessary information, you can call the reference station Yaroslavl-Glavny.
How to get there
Getting to the place is not difficult. For example, a traveler using public transport will spend 30 minutes non-stop on the road from the bus station. By car, the same distance can be reached in 15 minutes.
The public transport stop is located directly in front of the railway station, where the following routes arrive:
- trolley buses No. 1, 3, 5;
- buses No. 8, 9, 11, 17, 30, 44, 49, 55, 55k, 72, 76, 93g, 121a, 127a, 139, 140;
- fixed-route taxis No. 45, 81, 99, 143, 176.
What to see nearby
If during the trip you have free time before sending the train, spend it on sightseeing. At a distance of only a few kilometers from the station, you can see a lot of interesting things.
Twenty minutes by bus to Epiphany Square - and in front of you is a monument to Yaroslav the Wise, the founder of the city. It is he who is printed on the front side of the thousandth bill. Nearby is the Transfiguration Monastery, the main architectural monument of the city.
Not far from the square at the crossroads of Pervomaiskaya and Nakhimsona streets, a monument to the symbol of the city - the bear - was erected. The sculpture is interactive, every hour it makes a sound resembling the roar of an animal.
If you drive a little further to the river, you can stroll along the wonderful Volga embankment, admire the ancient merchant houses, listen to the singing fountains, and visit museums nearby.
Station History
The railway in the city was opened at the very beginning of 1870, stretching from Yaroslavl to Sergiev Posad. From this moment begins the construction of tracks in other directions. They were supposed to connect Yaroslavl with Kostroma, Vologda and Rybinsk.
In 1898, a one-story wooden station of Vspolye was built - the future station of Yaroslavl-Glavny. If you look into the explanatory dictionary of V. Dahl, we will find out that the outbreak is the beginning of the field, a place around the outskirts.
In 1913, they paved the way from Moscow to Vyatka through the Vspolye station. Since that time, it becomes the main one in the city and in 1916 receives a new, more spacious building. In the 1920s, an area was set up in front of the railway station.
Gradually Vpolye becomes the central station of the city. The building in which the station is now located was commissioned in 1952. The architects were N. Panchenko and M. Shpotov. The style of the building is the neoclassicism, popular at that time, or the Stalinist empire. In 1977, the station ensemble was replenished with an underground passage and a ticket office building.
The Yaroslavl-Glavny railway station got its modern name in 1958. Full decoration of the nearby square and adjacent buildings was completed by 1985. In 2008, reconstruction was carried out.
Northern Railway
Railway station Yaroslavl-Glavny is part of the structure of the Northern Railway. This is one of the 16 railways of our country with a length of more than 8.6 thousand km. In addition to Yaroslavl, the road passes through Kostroma, Vologda, Arkhangelsk, Syktyvkar, Ivanovo and Vorkuta.
In 2016, more than 58 million tons of cargo were transported by the Northern Railway, including construction materials, timber, ferrous metals, paper, coal, oil. Each year, passengers on the highway make more than 16 million trips.
The Yaroslavl branch of the Northern Railway crosses several regions: Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Tver and, of course, Yaroslavl.