Pskov Getting there & around

Getting there & away

The train station (536 237) has limited amenities, although you can check a bag here (per bag, per day R40). The only dir- ect trains to St Petersburg are night trains (R450, six hours) to the Vitebsk Station; during the day you have to travel to Luga and transfer. One night train goes to Moscow (R1130, 12 hours), Rīga (R1265, eight hours) and Vilnius (R1130, 10 hours).

There are no easy train connections to Novgorod, but two buses daily (R206, 4½ hours) leave from the central bus station (24002). Buses for Pushkinskie Gory via Izborsk leave regularly (R94, two hours). Buses to Pechory (R44, 1½ hours) also leave every three hours. There's one daily bus to Smolensk (R370, seven hours), two to Rīga and one to Tallinn.