Vitsebsk Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Vitsebsk is on one of the major railway lines heading south from St Petersburg into Ukraine. There are two or three daily trains to Minsk (BR12, 000 to BR18, 000, 4½ to six hours) and one to St Petersburg (BR95, 000, 13 hours). On even-numbered days of the month trains run to Kyiv (BR56, 000, 16 hours). There's also a daily train to both Moscow (BR40, 000, 11 hours) and Brest (BR25, 000, 16 hours), and on odd- numbered days to Hrodna (BR20, 000, 12 hours). Domestic electric trains connect Polatsk and Vitsebsk (two hours, BR8000) five times daily, but most southbound or westbound trains also stop at Polatsk.

There are at least seven daily buses and marshrutky to Minsk (BR23, 000, four to 5½ hours). Buses head two or three times daily to Polatsk (BR8000, two hours).