Hrodna Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

From the main bus station (723 724), there are some 20 daily buses and marshrutky to Minsk (BR25, 000, four to 5½ hours) and between three and six buses or marshrutky per day to Brest (BR25, 000, four to 5½ hours).

To Lithuania, there are twice-daily buses to Kaunas (BR8200, four hours) and one daily bus to Vilnius (BR28, 000, five hours). Express buses run by Intaks (720 230) go six times daily to Bialystok (BR14, 000, 3½ hours), twice daily to Warsaw (BR16, 000, six hours) and twice weekly to Rīga (BR45, 000, 13 hours). The Intaks ticket counter is outside the main bus station building, facing the platforms; it also sells tickets for express marshrutky to Brest.

Train

From the train station (448 556) there are at least five trains a day to Minsk (BR17, 000, 6½ hours), plus one overnight train to Brest (BR19, 000, 12 hours) and a daily train to Vitsebsk (BR18, 000, 11 hours).

About three trains a day head across the border to Warsaw (BR55, 000, seven hours), stopping in Bialystok along the way. Three trains a week go to St Petersburg (BR89, 000, 22 hours) and one a day goes to Moscow (BR74, 000, 17 hours). Buy your tickets in advance from cashiers seven to 14.

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Air

Gomel Avia (0232-531 415 in Gomel) operates a weekly flight to/from Kaliningrad (US$88 one-way), landing at the little-used Obukhovo airport (445 382), 15km from Hrodna.

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