According to the Grand Service Express carrier company, new railway services from Arkhangelsk to Sevastopol (additional carriages to the Murmansk-Sevastopol train) and from Belgorod to Simferopol (additional carriages to the Simferopol-Smolensk train) will open this summer. In addition, for the first time the Tavria train will go on the St. Petersburg − Theodosia route.
- 5 trains from Moscow: to Simferopol (two trains), Sevastopol, Eupatoria and Theodosia;
- 3 trains from St. Petersburg: to Simferopol, Theodosia and Eupatoria.
10 trains (taking into account additional carriages) will also go from the regions:
- from Perm (via Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd and Rostov-on-Don);
- from Omsk (via Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Saransk, Penza, Rostov-on-Don);
- from Murmansk (via Vologda, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Saransk, Penza, Rostov-on-Don);
- from Pskov (via Velikiy Novgorod, Tver, Ryazan, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don);
- from Arkhangelsk (via Vologda, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Nizhniy Novgorod, Saransk, Penza, Rostov-on-Don);
- from Smolensk (via Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar);
- from Belgorod (via Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar);
- from Astrakhan (via Volgograd, Krasnodar);
- from Kislovodsk (via Krasnodar);
- from Adler (assigned also to pick up passengers to and from Sochi airport).
By the way, the longest Murmansk − Simferopol route has become even longer this year. According to the carrier company, now it goes to Sevastopol and makes 62 stops. The length of the route is 4,620 kilometers.
The number of carriages on Crimean trains will increase this summer from around 400 to over 600.
