In the southern region of the country, travel by train is especially popular. Travelers travel by rail to suburban settlements, remote cities, and during the holiday season they travel to the sea. In Rostov-on-Don, the railway station is the most intense and significant transport hub on the North Caucasian Railway. Every day, it serves thousands of travelers heading to different destinations. Hundreds of trains pass through this station. There are two stations in the city, but most directions long distance it serves exactly the railway station Glavnyy Rostov-on-Don.
Rostov on Don railway station - Glavny - brief information
The first station building in the city appeared when a line was laid for one of the main railways of the country in the late 60s. 19th century. It served only a few years, and a large station building was erected in its place, which was later destroyed by the Nazi aircraft. The modern station complex was built in the 70s.
The multi-storey building houses all the services and services necessary for serving passengers:
- ticket offices;
- hotel;
- a cafe;
- information desk of the Rostov-on-Don railway station (phone numbers are listed on the website);
- waiting rooms.
There is a business center in the building, where you can order a transfer, plane tickets, book a hotel room or call a taxi.
From the main building, following the signs, you can go to shopping facilities, a room for mothers with children, cameras, storage, access to the platforms. The Rostov-on-Don train schedule is duplicated in different rooms and displayed on electronic boards. There is a large square with stops next to the station public transport, shops and car parks. An underground gallery leads to the platforms.
Schedule of the Main Railway Station of Rostov-on-Don
From the station you can go on a trip to different cities of Russia. Trains departing from the station platforms arrive in cities such as:
- Ekaterinburg;
- Moscow;
- Krasnodar;
- Anapa;
- St. Petersburg;
- Samara;
- Kislovodsk;
- Sochi.
You can buy tickets in all directions at 16 ticket offices, which work around the clock in accordance with the schedule of the Rostov-on-Don railway station. Travel documents for suburban and international destinations are also issued here. The international ticket office is open only during the daytime. In addition to Russian cities, travelers on trains can go to Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria. All information about international flights presented on the website of the Rostov-on-Don railway station.
This section provides information on the movement of suburban and passenger trains of all categories, following from the stations of the city of Rostov-on-Don.
Rostov-Glavny station is the largest railway junction within the North Caucasian railway. The capacity of this station is more than a hundred trains passing through it every day in all directions. Rostov-Glavny consists of a passenger station with three straight platforms - one side and two island, as well as a suburban station with a fully autonomous infrastructure and the same number of platforms of the same type.
A number of trains depart from the Rostov-Glavny passenger station international traffic... They connect the city with Baku in Azerbaijan, Gomel and Minsk in Belarus, Kiev in Ukraine and Sukhumi in Abkhazia.
Long-distance passenger trains connect Rostov-on-Don with many cities Russian Federation. Direct message the city has with Adler, Anapa, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Vladikavkaz, Vorkuta, Yekaterinburg, Grozny, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Kislovodsk, Krasnoyarsk, Makhachkala, Mineral Waters, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Tagil, Novorossiysk, Novosibirsk, Perm, Samara, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Sochi, Stavropol, Togliatti, Tomsk, Tuapse and Chelyabinsk.
The infrastructure of the Rostov-Glavny railway station includes an administrative building, a railway station building, where preliminary ticket offices and train timetables are located, comfortable waiting backs, left-luggage offices and several service centers. The station provides a full range of transport passenger and freight services.
From the Prigorodny station of the station, electric trains depart in the direction of the stations Azov, Bataysk, Kuberle, Kushchevka, Salsk, Starominskaya-Timashevsk and Tikhoretskaya. Special suburban express trains run to Kurgannaya and Krasnodar-1 stations.
Suburban railway station has its own station building, waiting room, ticket offices, train timetables and auxiliary infrastructure. For the suburban railway station, despite the formal relationship to the Rostov-Glavny station, its own numbering of platforms and tracks operates, and an autonomous system of announcements of information on the arrival and departure of electric trains and express trains has been created.
Information about the timetable of trains and electric trains for Rostov-on-Don station:
The schedule of trains and electric trains for the Rostov-on-Don station today includes 311 long-distance trains, commuter trains and electric trains (including diesels) - 83, 324 of them are passing and 70 - start or end their journey in this locality... Most trains arrive in the morning. The first, according to the schedule, departs at 00:05 in the direction of the Yekaterinburg-Pass station, and the last arrives at 23:59. The average time spent on the platform is 0:28.
Some trains passing through Rostov-on-Don station do not run every day (they have a special schedule).
The timetable of trains and electric trains for the Rostov-on-Don station presented on this page takes into account seasonal changes, that is, the winter and summer versions of the timetable are always available.
Tickets for trains and commuter trains at Rostov-on-Don station can be purchased online or at the box office.
The list of mandatory services provided at the Rostov-Glavny railway station:
- reference and information services;
- issuance, refund, reissue of tickets, e-ticket, electronic registration, payment travel documents bank cards;
- medical service;
- maintaining public order.
Additional services:
- porters services;
- use of storage rooms;
- use of the luggage compartment;
- clearance of carriage hand luggage in excess of the established norm;
- conclusion of a voluntary insurance contract;
- paid sanitary and hygienic services with the provision of basic necessities;
- ordering a taxi before the arrival of the train;
- car for rent, transfer;
- booking a hotel room in any city;
- long-distance and local telephone communication services, satellite communication;
- office services - fax, internet, Email, copying services, lamination;
- charging mobile phones and other devices.
Services for people with disabilities are also provided: the medical center is equipped with wheelchairs, there are separate seats in the waiting room.
History:
The history of the North Caucasian railway is inextricably linked with the history of the construction of the Rostov-on-Don railway station. In 1869, a branch of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov line was laid from Taganrog to the Rostov station.
In 1875, the construction of the station was completed. Rostov-Vladikavkaz, and January 15, 1876 is considered the official date of foundation of the Rostov-Glavny railway station.
For its time, it was incredibly large, and, moreover, a three-storey complex, which was erected as if for the future, with an eye on the fact that the city would actively develop and turn into a major transport hub.
Over the entire period of its existence, the Rostov-on-Don station has been completed many times, supplemented with various buildings, and rebuilt. The station was especially damaged during the Great Patriotic War, but was nevertheless restored.
In the 70s of the last century, the construction of a complex of new station buildings began here, which was completed only in the 90s. In 2000, the reconstruction of the station building itself began, which ended four years later.
Branded trains:
- Arrives at Rostov-Glavny station brand train"Quiet Don" by route Moscow - Rostov-on-Don - Moscow) №099 / 100.
- Visit the Tobacco Factory Center for Contemporary Art.
- Take a walk along the city embankment.
- See the fountain on Teatralnaya Square, which is not only the largest in Rostov, but is also considered an excellent example of Stalinist Empire architecture.
- Visit the Armenian Church of Surb Khach, which is the oldest building in the city.
- Take a ride on the children's railroad in Ostrovsky Park.
- Take a walk around Rostov botanical garden and see with your own eyes plants from all over the world.
- Go to the historical and archaeological museum-reserve "Tanais", where the ruins have been preserved ancient city, founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. by the Greeks.
- Walk along Bolshaya Hellova Street, the largest and most beautiful in the city.
- See how the railway bridge rises across the Don.
- Visit the "Cossack Farm" and learn about the life and traditions of the Don Cossacks.
