Bratsk Getting there & around

Getting there & away

The three main train stations are an hour's ride apart. Padunskie Porogie is closest to Energetik and Padun. Gidrostritel is several kilometres east of the dam. For Tsentralny, get off at Anzyobi and transfer by bus or elektrichka.

Eastbound there are afternoon and night trains to Severobaikalsk (R760, 15 hours) via Lena-Ust-Kut (R650, eight hours). On odd days a useful 3pm train runs overnight to Krasnoyarsk (16 hours). For Irkutsk there's daily train 87 (R970, 18 hours), buses (R500, 11 hours) from the Tsentralny bus station (ul Yuzhnaya) and, in summer, hydro- foils (13 hours, three per week) down the Angara River from a river station in southeast Tsentralny.