Barnaul Getting there & around

Getting there & away

There are flights to Moscow (R7300, twice daily), Krasnoyarsk (R1730 to R3100, four weekly), St Petersburg (R7030, Friday) and Vladivostok (R8190) via either Irkutsk (R5925, Thursday) or Abakan (R1620, Tuesday). For more choice fly from No- vosibirsk. Near the main Aerokassa (368 181; ul Sovetskaya 4; 8am-7pm Mon-Fri, 8.30am-5pm Sat & Sun), English-speaking KrasAir (242 251; ul Sovetskaya 10; 8am-7pm) provides free airport taxis for air-ticket customers.

Trains leave daily to Novokuznetsk (from R210 platskart, 7½ hours), Almaty (Kazakhstan, approximately R1250, 31 hours) and most usefully overnight to Tomsk (R442, 15 hours) on odd days at 3.23pm. On even days a train to St Petersburg runs via Moscow. Buses are better for Novosibirsk (R160, five hours, 20 daily), Biysk (R138, three hours, hourly) or Gorno-Altaisk (R200, five hours, seven daily).