Luxury route
Zhemchuzhina Kavkaza
Moscow → Moscow · Russia
Zhemchuzhina Kavkaza in pictures
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- Distance
- 4,500 km
- Fastest time
- 7 days
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- RZD Tour
- Train
- Tourist train № 929/930
- Countries
- Russia
- In service since
- 2021
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A hotel on rails looping from Moscow around the North Caucasus — Maykop, Kislovodsk, Vladikavkaz, Grozny, seaside Derbent and Nalchik — seven days, one ticket, since 2021.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 45.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 286 m); the longest stretch away from it is 43 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Russian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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