Astrakhan Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Flights go to/from Moscow (R4850, 2½ hours, three daily). Daily trains go to Moscow (R1500, 30 hours), Volgograd (R620, eight hours) and Rostov-on-Don (R950, 24 hours). Trains also head south to Makhachkala in Dagestan (R550, 12 hours) and to Baku in Azerbaijan (R950, 24 hours).

Astrakhan is the end point of cruises on the Volga; the river station (ul Kremlevskaya 1) is located on the naberezhnaya. There are no regular passenger boats to the other Caspian Sea ports.

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