Use your e-ticket to board the train (select routes only)

Starting June 1st, 2009, Russian Railways is allowing travelers to board their trains without a special boarding pass. You no longer have to exchange your e-ticket for a boarding pass and can use it to directly board the train.

Carriage stewards on the trains listed below now have special scanners to check you in:

• Moscow - St. Petersburg - Moscow (trains number 55, 56, 23, 24, 3, 4, 159, 160, 165 and 166);
• Moscow - Gorkiy - Moscow (trains number 61, 62, 119 and 120);
• Moscow - Kazan - Moscow (trains number 49 and 50).

To use this convenient feature you should do three things:

1. purchase an e-ticket (which you can easily do on this site);
2. bring your e-ticket print out with you to the station; and
3. have passports for all the passengers listed on your e-ticket print-out.

Please note: this new procedure is available for select trains and routes only. If your train is not on the list, you will need to use the old procedure - exchange your e-ticket for a boarding pass at a train station. For that we recommend you arrive at the train station at least half an hour before your departure time.

We wish you a wonderful journey across Russia!