Saratov is a city with almost a million inhabitants. You can get to it from the cities of Russia and the former USSR by different means of transport - air, aviation, automobile and river. Thus, it is useful to know the features of Saratov stations.
Bus station features
The bus station of Saratov is located on the street. Moscow in d. 170, that is, next to the railway station, on the north side of the tracks. You need to get off the train, for example, not towards the Railway Station Square, but vice versa.
The bus station is open from 05:30 to 22:00. The building is modern, equipped with ramps for the disabled.
How to get to it? If you go to the railway station of Saratov, then from different areas of the city go:
- Minibuses: 3, 45, 55, 60, 64, 65, 76, 79, 82.
- Buses: 75, 246, 247, 253, 284, 491.
- Trolleybuses: 1, 2, 10, 15, 16.
If you move from the railway station part of the city, you need to get off on Yemlyutin street from minibus No. 63. You can get off at the bus stop on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, but you need to walk a bit along it along ul. Moscow. There are minibuses 15, 41, 81 and an 18d bus to this stop.
There are three types of buses from the Saratov bus station:
- Intraregional.
- Interregional.
- International
The latter include, for example, a flight to Yerevan. You can drive to the capital of Armenia for 3,700 rubles. It does not depart every day, at 07:30 on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
In addition, there are flights:
- To Zaporozhye via Kharkov and the Dnieper. The flight leaves on Sundays at 11:00. A ticket costs 3000 rubles, and to Kharkov - 2200.
- To Uralsk departure at 07:30, 840 rubles per ticket.
There are many interregional flights, of which it is worth noting the bus to Simferopol, which will run from mid-April 2019. He leaves at 16:30 on odd days. 3200 rubles is a ticket, and to Krasnodar - 2200.
In Rostov-on-Don, the bus leaves at 15:30 on odd days. Ticket price - 1700 rubles.
Buses depart from Saratov and to the city of Chernozemye:
- Voronezh - at 18:30, 1150 rubles per ticket.
- Kursk - at 20:20, 1,500 rubles worth the trip.
- Belgorod - at 13:00, 1500 per ticket.
Of the long-distance flights to the south, it is worth noting the bus to Elista departing at 20:00 and 17:50 and to Derbent the passing flight from Kazan at 05:45. In the opposite direction, he leaves at 19:50.
In addition to those listed, flights are sent to Volgograd, Ulyanovsk, Yoshkar-Ola, Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Pyatigorsk, Perm.
Flights to Moscow depart at 15:00, 16:00, 16:30, 17:00, 18:30, 19:00 and 20:30. Before her 1600 rubles is a ticket.
Many buses go to the regional centers of the Saratov region, for example, to Ershov, Rtishchevo, Petrovsk and other cities.
Railway Features
From the railway station of Saratov, local trains leave for Moscow and Sochi. There are also many trains passing through the city to other cities of Russia, from Makhachkala in the south to Vorkuta in the north and Chita and Tynda in the east.
To the west from the railway station of Saratov you can go to Brest, Baranovichi and other Belarusian cities. The train leaves there at 21:36.
In addition to the train to Belarus, there are trains to Tashkent and Almaty. The first leaves at 16:48 once a week and travels to the capital of Uzbekistan for 2 days and 18 hours. A reserved seat costs about 6,000 rubles, a coupe - from 8,000. The train is formed by the railways of Uzbekistan.
In Almaty, on even days at 19:51, a train of the Kazakh formation departs. Tickets for it are very expensive, since the fare is international, from 7000 for reserved seats and from 9800 for coupes. Therefore, it is better to get from the Saratov railway station to the first large station in Kazakhstan (for example, Ozinki), and then travel by cheap trains of the Kazakh railways. This train makes stops in the regional centers of Kazakhstan - in Uralsk, Aktobe, Kyzylorda, Taraz, Shymkent.
Schedule of trains from Saratov to Moscow:
- 9 a.m.
- 14:41.
- 15:17.
- 6:04 p.m.
- 20:06.
- 20:36.
- 21:36.
- 23:55.
The cheapest tickets in a seated car - from 960 rubles, in a reserved seat from 1700, in a compartment from 2000, in a bedroom - from 5000.
To Saratov on the Volga
The Saratov River Station is located on the Cosmonauts Embankment, that is, not far from the Museum of Local Lore. Its building was built in the late 1960s, during the years of the USSR it was actively used, since river transport was developed. Now part of the Saratov river station has been turned into a shopping center. River cruise ships go along the Volga to Astrakhan and to Kazan in the north. Through the system of reservoirs they sail to St. Petersburg, Moscow and Perm.
Saratov Airport
The airport in the city is small, there are few flights, only to Moscow and Surgut. Therefore, it is more profitable to fly from Samara. At the moment, the airport building is operating on Sokolovaya Gora, but soon a new airport building named after Gagarin will be built. It will be modern and there will be more flights.