Oryol Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Oryol is on the Moscow-Kharkiv railway, with numerous daily services to the capital (R550, 4½ hours). Backed by neoclassical colonnades, the train station (762 121) is your first clue to the upmarket character of Oryol. Left luggage costs R40 per day, per bag.

All buses, including Moscow-bound buses (several daily, six hours), leave from the less pleasant bus station (721 111), several kilometres south of town, at the opposite end of the Moskovskaya ul and ul Komsomolskaya axis.

Only prigorodny trains run from Yelets (R105, 6½ hours). To Kursk there is a fast train (R340, two hours), the elektrichka (R160, 3½ hours) and bus service (R90, 2½ hours). There is no direct rail service to Smolensk, but there is one daily bus (R305, eight hours).