Night trains from Moscow
7 sleeper routes · Russia
7 night trains serve Moscow in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to Vladivostok, Vorkuta, Murmansk, Adler, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Saint Petersburg. The longest is the Trans-Siberian Railway at 9,289 km (≈ 7 days); the oldest service on this list has run since 1916. Board in the evening, wake up 9,289 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Trans-Siberian Railway
The longest railway on Earth: 9,289 km, eight time zones and seven nights between Moscow and the Pacific.
Wikipedia ↗ - Vorkuta
Two nights up the Stalin-era Pechora mainline to Vorkuta, a coal city beyond the Arctic Circle that no all-year road reaches; train № 41 is its lifeline to Moscow.
Wikipedia (RU) ↗ - Arktika
Russia’s polar flagship crosses the Arctic Circle on the 1916 Murman railway: 35 hours north to a port where winter trains arrive in round-the-clock night.
- Premium
The southern flagship since 1964 (first Ritsa, then Sochi, Premium since 2009): 1,761 km from Kazansky station to the subtropical Black Sea platforms of Adler in 23 hours.
- Yantar
Running since 1964, the Yantar threads Moscow to Russia’s Baltic exclave via Minsk and Vilnius, the last corridor where Russian passenger trains still cross the EU.
Wikipedia (RU) ↗ - Moscow–Kazan Double-Decker
Two storeys of berths slip out of Kazansky station at 23:08 and pull in below the Tatar kremlin by breakfast. Russia’s double-deck night-train boom, eastbound.
Wikipedia ↗ - Red Arrow
Departing at 23:55 nightly since 1931 to the strains of ‘Hymn to the Great City’: the crimson Soviet flagship that outlived the state that built it.
Wikipedia ↗
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons; each route page credits the author & licence
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