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Train routes operated by RZD

10 routes · high-speed 1 · night train 8 · heritage 1

RZD runs 10 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 22,486 km of railway across 3 countries. The longest is the Trans-Siberian Railway at 9,289 km; the fastest is the Sapsan, running up to 250 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1916. 1 of its routes crosses an international border.

The company itself dates to 2003, filed on Wikidata as a state-owned enterprise of Russia. What this page says about the company comes from RZD's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q660770 ↗

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Routes here: 10
Total length: 22,486 km
Countries: Russia, Belarus, Lithuania
Fastest: Sapsan · 250 km/h
Oldest line here: 1916
Company founded: 2003
Longest: Trans-Siberian Railway · 9,289 km
Type: state-owned enterprise of Russia

High-speed (1)

Sapsan
Moscow → St. Petersburg · 650 km · 3 h 30 min

RZD · Siemens Velaro RUS

The “Peregrine Falcon” races the dead-straight 1851 Nikolaev alignment between Russia’s two capitals.
Wikipedia ↗

Night train (8)

Trans-Siberian Railway
Moscow → Vladivostok · 9,289 km · ≈ 7 days

RZD · Rossiya № 1/2

The longest railway on Earth: 9,289 km, eight time zones and seven nights between Moscow and the Pacific.
Wikipedia ↗
Baikal–Amur Mainline
Tayshet → Komsomolsk-on-Amur · 3,800 km · ≈ 4 days

RZD · RZD sleeper trains

Brezhnev’s ‘Project of the Century’, the Trans-Siberian’s wilder northern twin: 3,800 km of permafrost, seven ranges and towns that exist only for the line.
Wikipedia ↗
Vorkuta
Moscow → Vorkuta · 2,278 km · ~41 h

RZD · Firmenny № 41/42

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
Moscow → Murmansk · 1,940 km · ≈ 35 h

RZD · Arktika № 16/15

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
Moscow → Adler · 1,761 km · ~23 h

RZD · Premium № 101/102 (ex-Sochi)

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
Moscow → Kaliningrad · 1,285 km · ~20 h

RZD · Firmenny № 29/30

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
Moscow → Kazan · 793 km · ≈ 11 h 30 min

RZD · Double-deck sleeper № 23/24

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
Moscow → Saint Petersburg · 650 km · ≈ 8 h

RZD · Krasnaya Strela № 1/2

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 ↗

Heritage (1)

Ruskeala Express
Sortavala → Ruskeala · 40 km · 1 h 10 min

RZD · Steam retro train № 921/922

Russia’s only daily steam service: blue retro cars behind a vintage locomotive from Sortavala to Ruskeala’s flooded marble canyon, staged down to conductors in 1900s dress.
Wikipedia (RU) ↗

Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence

How many train routes does RZD run?

10 of the routes in this atlas are RZD services, covering 22,486 km across 3 countries (Russia, Belarus, Lithuania). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.

What is the fastest RZD train?

The Sapsan, Moscow to St. Petersburg, at up to 250 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 3 h 30 min over 650 km.

Does RZD run night trains?

Yes — 8 sleeper services in this atlas: Trans-Siberian Railway (Moscow – Vladivostok), Baikal–Amur Mainline (Tayshet – Komsomolsk-on-Amur), Vorkuta (Moscow – Vorkuta), Arktika (Moscow – Murmansk), and others.

When was RZD founded?

Wikidata records the company's inception as 2003, and files it as a state-owned enterprise of Russia. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1916 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.