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    Train stations in Russia: luggage storage, Wi-Fi and other services

    By Irena Domingo
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    In this article, I will explain you the services offered by Russian train stations, such as baggage storage, free Wi-Fi, services for people with disabilities, ATMs, shops or the VIP lounge.

    This is step 3 of my guide to planning a trip to Russia in 10 steps, where you’ll find everything else in order.

    IMPORTANT: due to international sanctions it is currently not possible to buy train tickets with foreign cards on the website of the state-owned Russian Railways (RZD), so you have to resort to intermediaries such as Russiantrain. Additionally, in order to access the RZD website it is necessary to use a VPN service.

    Services Train stations in Russia

    0. Information about train stations in Russia

    RZD, the national railways company of Russia, currently manages a total of 353 railway stations throughout Russia (in the annex you can find a link to the official website of each of these stations), with an annual passenger traffic of around 340 million people.

    I often receive questions about the services offered by Moscow railway stations, St. Petersburg or other Russian cities, such as:

    • Do they have luggage rooms?
    • Do they have Wi-Fi service?
    • Can I buy a Russian SIM card at the station?
    • Do they have ATMs to withdraw money?
    • Do they have a taxi service?
    • Are they accessible to people with disabilities?
    • …

    Train stations in Moscow, St. Petersburg or other large Russian cities, usually offer various services: left luggage facilities, free WIFI, ATMs, shops, public toilets (usually paid), information services, services for people with disabilities, taxi service, parking for vehicles, etc.

    However, to know exactly the services offered by each of the train stations, there are two options:

    • Call any of the RZD information toll-free numbers, which also offer customer service in English: 8 (800) 775-00-00 (general information) and 8 (800) 510-11-11 (help center to provide mobility for people with disabilities). The first operator that will answer you will do it in Russian, so you have to be kind enough to say in English that you don’t speak Russian so he/she can attend you in English, or communicate you with an operator who speaks it.
    • Access the official website of Russian Railways (RZD). In RZD’s official website you can consult the list of all Russian railway stations websites; however, this list is in Russian and with links to the Russian version. For this reason, in the annex to this article I include a link to the English version of the official website of each of the train stations in Russia.

    Let’s see an example. If you want to know the services offered by Leningradsky station in Moscow, you will have to access the RZD website of this station (in English): http://leningradsky.dzvr.ru/en/.

    • You can check the general information of this station (name, address and help hotlines), photographs, as well as a list of the services offered. Also, as you can see in the side menu of the screenshot below, you also have a location map of the station (“Getting here” section), a map of the station’s interior (“Station scheme”), as well as the train schedules that depart from said
    Services Train stations in Russia

    1. Left luggage facilities

    The stations in which “Luggage room” is specified offer a luggage storage service. If you arrive early to the city and you can’t check in at the hotel until later, or you just want to visit a city during the day and then continue your train journey without staying (as it can happen in any of the stops on the Trans-Siberian route), a good option for not having to carry suitcases is to leave them at the train station luggage storage.

    In large cities, they are usually open 24 hours a day. To find them you must follow the instructions that come with a drawing of a suitcase and a key, along with a sign in Russian (“Камера хранения”) and, sometimes, also in English (“Cloakroom”):

    Luggage storage services - Leningradskiy Station 1

    At the Leningradsky station, for example, as in many train stations in Russia, there are two types of storages:

    • Manual luggage storage, attended by staff, in which they will scan your bags, they will ask for your passport and they will give you a receipt with which you will have to return to pick them up. The cost is about 180 rubles per package per day.
    Luggage storage services - Leningradskiy Station 2
    • Automatic luggage locker, in which you must also present your passport at the entrance and follow the instructions to deposit your luggage. These storage premises are usually a little more expensive, depending on locker size and the period of time you use (between 250 and 500 rubles a day).
    Automatic luggage locker - Leningradskiy Station in St Petersburg

    Although train station storage deposits are safe, it is advisable not to leave any valuables in them (jewelry, documents, credit cards or electronic equipment of value).

    It is also important to know that on RZD trains, each ticket entitles you to carry a hand luggage up to 36 kilos (or 50 kilos if you are travelling in a compartment with bunk beds). The volumetric weight of carry-on baggage must not exceed 180 cm. You can also store baby strollers or bicycles, as long as they are folded or in their packaging.

    You can find detailed information about the luggage that you can take on RZD trains, you have it at this link: http://pass.rzd.ru/static/public/en?STRUCTURE_ID=5116

    2. Wi-Fi and Russian SIM card

    Most stations have free wifi. You just have to check if they come with the WIFI sign. If there is no Wifi sign in the station or if you want to be permanently connected to the Internet during your trip in Russia, in many stations you can buy a Russian SIM card. These SIM cards can be bought in stores or in small mobile phone kiosks of the stations.

    A way to know if these stores exist is by entering the virtual tour offered by some stations, through which you can virtually enter the station and go from one room to another. You can access the virtual tour through the link “Panoramas”:

    Free Wifi - Russian Sim MTC in Leningradsky Station in Moscow

    3. Services for people with disabilities

    To know the services offered in each station for the disabled, you must click on the “Electronic passport availability station” section. You will see which adapted station services are available for people in wheelchairs, people with mobility difficulties, people with hearing impairment or blind people.

    Services for the disabled - Leningradskiy Station Saint Petersburg
    Special sale of tickets for the disabled

    4. Other services

    The Russian railway stations also offer many other services, some free and others paid, among which include:

    • Information & Services
    • ATM / Cash machine
    • Hotel on the station
    • Shops
    • Coffee
    • Taxi/Cab
    • Parking
    • Pay Toilets
    • Sanitation services
    • Police Department
    • Mother & Child Room
    • Luggage trolleys
    • Lost Baggage
    • Vip lounge
    Kazanskiy Station - VIP Room

    Annex. Russian railway stations Websites

    Moscow

    Things you should consider:

    • If you buy a train ticket from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the departure station that will probably appear on the ticket will be the Oktyabrsky station in Moscow, a name previously held by this station, now called Leningradsky. The arrival station in St. Petersburg is Moskovsky.
    • On the attached map you have the location of Moscow train stations, along with the nearest Metro station. There are three stations that are close to the Komsomolskaya Metro station, that are not to be confused: Leningradsky (from where the trains depart in the direction of St. Petersburg, northwest Russia, Estonia and Finland), Kazansky (trains to Central Asia, Ryazan, Ufa, Samara and Novorossiysk) and Yaroslavsky (trains to Siberia, Far East of Russia, Mongolia and China).
    Moscow train stations - Facade

    St. Petersburg

    Novosibirsk

    Yekaterinburg

    Samara

    Nizhny Novgorod

    Omsk

    Kazan

    Rostov-on-Don

    Irkutsk

    Sochi

    Kaliningrad

    Saransk

    Ulan Ude

    Other Russian cities

    Chelyabinsk

    Ufa

    Volgograd

    Perm

    Krasnoyarsk

    Voronezh

    Saratov

    Krasnodar

    Tolyatti

    Tyumen

    Ulyanovsk

    Barnaul

    Vladivostok

    Yaroslavl

    Veliky Novgorod

    Rest of Russian train stations

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