The city of Yaroslavl is part of the famous Golden Ring of Russia. This is one of the oldest and most beautiful Russian cities. We see its sights whenever we look at a 1000-ruble bill.
Yaroslavsky railway station Yaroslavl-Glavny - this is a real business card of the ancient city. Anyone who is going to visit it will be useful to the following information.
Directions
On the territory of the city there are two railway stations. The main one is the Yaroslavl-Glavny railway station. In addition, there is still Yaroslavl-Moscow.
At the main station of the city there are 4 railway platforms, of which 3 are island and 1 side. To the first platform, the exit is through the station building, and to the rest through the underground tunnel.
This major transportation hub has a directcommunication with many cities in Russia and abroad. Through Yaroslavl, long-distance trains go to Moscow and Abakan, St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk, Anapa and Novorossiysk, Minsk, Labytnangi, Chita, Ufa and other locations. Travel time to Moscow is 3.5-5 hours.
There are also commuter trains from here. Electric trains go to Kostroma, Ivanovo, Danilov, Aleksandrov and Rybinsk.
Mode of operation and services provided
The address of the railway station Yaroslavl-Glavny cannot be forgotten, because it sounds almost identical: Yaroslavl-Glavny Square, 1A.
The station accepts passengers around the clock.Travel documents for trains can be issued at long-distance ticket offices or self-service terminals. Ticket offices work on schedule with technological interruptions.
At ticket office number 7, in addition to tickets for long-distance trainsfollow, you can issue a travel document for international routes. Cashier is open from 11 to 19 hours with technological interruptions. Weekends: Saturday and Sunday.
Ticket offices of electric trains are located in the main building.
At the station Yaroslavl-Glavny travelers can take advantage of standard services:
- issue or hand over a travel document;
- leave luggage and hand luggage;
- obtain a certificate of fare and rail transportation (including written);
- use the rest room and the mother’s and child’s room;
- reserve a room for the reception of the official delegation;
- make photocopies, etc.
Also in the station building there are cafes,shops, ATMs, linear police department, medical center, toilet. Wi-Fi and free video post service “Video message” are working. To obtain the necessary information, you can call the reference station Yaroslavl-Glavny.
How to get there
Get to the place is not difficult.For example, a traveler by public transport will spend 30 minutes without transfers on the road from the bus station. By car the same distance can be reached in 15 minutes.
The public transport stop is located right in front of the railway station building, where the following routes arrive:
- trolleybuses number 1, 3, 5;
- buses Nos. 8, 9, 11, 17, 30, 44, 49, 55, 55k, 72, 76, 93g, 121a, 127a, 139, 140;
- route taxis number 45, 81, 99, 143, 176.
What to see nearby
If during the trip you will havefree time before sending the train, spend it on sightseeing. At a distance of just a few kilometers from the station, you can see a lot of interesting things.
Twenty minutes by bus to EpiphanySquare - and in front of you is a monument to Yaroslav the Wise, the founder of the city. It was he who printed on the face of the thousandth note. Nearby is the Transfiguration Monastery, the main architectural monument of the city.
Not far from the square at the crossroads of Pervomaiskaya and Nakhimson streets there is a monument to the symbol of the city - the bear. The sculpture is interactive, every hour it makes a sound resembling the roar of an animal.
If you drive a little further to the river, you can stroll along the wonderful Volga Embankment, admire the old merchant houses, listen to singing fountains, visit museums nearby.
Station history
The railway in the city was opened in the verybeginning of 1870, stretching from Yaroslavl to Sergiev Posad. From this moment begins the construction of tracks in other directions. They were supposed to connect Yaroslavl with Kostroma, Vologda and Rybinsk.
In 1898 a one-story wooden building was built.Vopolye station - the future station Yaroslavl-Glavny. If you look into the explanatory dictionary of V. Dahl, then we learn that the field is the beginning of the field, the place around the outskirts.
In 1913, paving the way from Moscow to Vyatkathrough the station Vpol'e. Since that time, it becomes the main in the city and in 1916 receives a new, more spacious building. In the 1920s, an area settled in front of the railway station.
Gradually Vspolye becomes centralstation of the city. The building, which is now located station, was commissioned in 1952. The architects were N. Panchenko and M. Shpotov. The style of the building is the neoclassicism or the Stalin Empire style that was popular at that time. In 1977 the station ensemble was replenished with an underground passage and a building for ticket offices.
Yaroslavl-Glavny Railway Station received its modern name in 1958. Complete decoration of the nearby area and surrounding buildings was completed by 1985. In 2008, the reconstruction was carried out.
Northern Railway
Жд вокзал Ярославль-Главный входит в структуру Northern Railway. This is one of the 16 railway lines of our country with a length of more than 8.6 thousand km. In addition to Yaroslavl, the road passes through Kostroma, Vologda, Arkhangelsk, Syktyvkar, Ivanovo and Vorkuta.
In 2016, the Northern Railway transportedmore than 58 million tons of cargo, including construction materials, timber, ferrous metals, paper, coal, oil. Every year, passengers on the highway make more than 16 million trips.
The Yaroslavl Branch of the Northern Railway crosses several regions: Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Tverskaya and, of course, Yaroslavl.
