How to get

BY TRAIN | BY AIR | BY CAR | BY BUS | BY BOAT

BY TRAIN

Kostroma Railway Station is called “Kostroma Novaya”. Kostroma has got several regular communications:

1. Moscow (all trains from Kostroma arrive at the Moscow’s Railway station “Yaroslavskiy”, the underground station “Komsomol’skaya”).

Number Train route Departure from Kostroma* Arrival in Moscow Departure from Moscow Arrival in Kostroma Transit time  
147 Kostroma – Moscow 23-00 5-43 — — 6 h 43 min Daily
148 Moscow - Kostroma — — 23-10 5-38 6 h 28 min Daily
*Moscow time

2. Kostroma is situated along the Trans-Siberian Railway. From here moving by train you can reach the very Eastern points of Russia – Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. Moving to the west by these trains you may reach Moscow also.

Number Train route Departure from Kostroma* Arrival in Kostroma Departure from Moscow Arrival in Moscow Transit time  
240 Moscow - Vladivostok 7-15 6-45 00-35 — 6 h 10 min Even dates 31/1 – 30, 1, 3, 5, 8
239 Vladivostok – Moscow 4-30 4-00 — 11-03 6 h 33 min Odd dates 30/1 – 31, 2, 4, 6, 9
44 Moscow – Khabarovsk 7-15 6-45 00-35 — 6 h 10 min Odd dates 30/1 – 31, 2, 4, 6, 9
43 Khabarovsk - Moscow 4-30 4-00 — 11-03 6 h 33 min Even dates 31/1 – 30, 1, 3, 5, 8
*Moscow time

3. St. Petersburg

Number Train route Departure from Kostroma* Arrival in St. Petersburg Departure from St. Petersburg Arrival in Kostroma Transit time  
695 Kostroma – St.Petersburg 18-22 11-15 — — 16 h 53 min Daily
696 St. Peresburg - Kostroma — — 17-40 9-04 15 h 24 min Daily
*Moscow time

4. Yaroslavl

Number Train route Departure from Kostroma* Arrival in Yaroslavl Departure from Yaroslavl Arrival in Kostroma  
6403 Kostroma - Yaroslavl 8-03 — — — Daily, except Thursday
6404 Kostroma - Yaroslavl 9-07 — — — Daily
6409 Kostroma - Yaroslavl 16-50 — — — Daily
6410 Kostroma - Yaroslavl 19-46 — — — Daily
6413 Yaroslavl - Kostroma — — 11-20 — Daily
6414 Yaroslavl - Kostroma — — 14-30 — Daily
6405 Yaroslavl - Kostroma — — 18-55 — Daily
6406 Yaroslavl - Kostroma — — 21-58 — Daily, except Wednesday
*Moscow time

For more information, please call: +7 4942 49 02 25, Kostroma Railway Station, Shirokaya Sq., 2, or visit www.rzd.ru

BY AIR

The airport “Sokerkino” carries out passenger and cargo transportation within neighboring regions. The regular communications are established with St. Petersburg, Moscow, Anapa and other cities.

For more information, please call: +7 4942 51 73 22, Kostroma Airport, Kostromskaya St., or visit
kostroma-avia.ru

BY CAR

You can take the northeastern direction of the federal motor road Moscow-Kholmogory (M-8) to travel from Moscow to Kostroma. Once you have reached the Yaroslavl, please take right and move along the motor road A-113. The distance of 330 kilometers will take about 6 hours of travel. The road passes through the ancient Russian towns of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy and Rostov.

BY BUS

There are bus trips daily to/from Moscow’s Shchyolkovsky bus station (underground railway station “Shchyolkovskaya”), plus you can take buses stopping in transit. Most of these stop at Pereslavl-Zalessky and Yaroslavl.

There are also daily trips to/from St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kazan’, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Nizhny Novgorod and others.

For more information, please call: +7 4942 22 02 33, Kostroma Bus Station, Kineshemskoye Highway, 21.

BY BOAT

In summer from the river station there is a range of passenger services on the Volga to places as distant as Astrakhan. From about early June to early October, long–distance Volga passenger ships stop in Kostroma every couple of days on their way between Moscow and cities like Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Astrakhan. Cruise ships like Dmitry Pozharksy, George Zhukov, Alexander Suvorov, Michael Frunze and others are presented.

For more information, please call: +7 4942 31 39 12, Kostroma River Port, Nizhnyaya Debrya St., 24, or visit www.kostroma-port.ru