Kazan Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Flights go to Moscow (R1800 to R2300, 1½ hours, three daily), and Lufthansa has twice-weekly flights to/from Frankfurt. The river station for cruises along the Volga is at the end of ul Tatarstan.

The long-distance bus station (930 400) is at the intersection of uls Tatarstan and Portovaya (take tram 7 from the train station). Buses go to Ulyanovsk (R230, five hours, five daily) and Samara (R290, 10 hours, daily).

The beautifully restored original train station on ul Said Galeeva now serves as a waiting room. Long-distance tickets are sold in the sleek new building, north of the tatty, suburban train station. The 2nd floor has a service centre that is useful if the ground-floor ticket counters are crowded. Frequent trains link Kazan to Moscow (R1150, 13 hours), Nizhny Novgorod (R640, nine hours) and Yekaterinburg (R1275, 15 hours). Trains going to Perm (R706, 16 hours) travel along a winding, scenic route through the mountains. They run every second day, daily in summer.