Nerchinsk Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Nerchinsk is up a 10km dead-end railway spur from Priiskovaya on the trans-Siberian mainline. A single Nerchinsk-bound platskartny carriage from Chita (R209, 10 hours) is attached to the Erofey Pavlovich-bound train 392 departing Chita at 10pm daily. For much more choice, taxi-hop back to Priiskovaya, where connections include the 1.20pm train to Blagoveshchensk, the 8.55pm to Khabarovsk or the 6.11pm back towards Irkutsk: all run on odd days only. Taxis from Priiskovaya evaporate when there's no train due, so don't hang around too long if arriving there.