Smolensk Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Smolensk is on the Moscow-Minsk- Warsaw railway with several daily trains to/from Moscow (R500, six hours), Minsk (R400, four hours) and Brest (R1970, eight hours); as well as regular trains to Warsaw (R2136, nine hours), Prague (R3130, 24 hours) and Berlin (R3740, 41 hours). International rail tickets are sold from window 12 at the train station(395 268; 9am-6pm Mon-Thu, 9am-5pm Fri).

Smolensk's bus station(218 574; 10am-5pm Mon-Fri, 3-6pm Sat), just south of the train station, serves most of the region's smaller towns and offers frequent daily services to Moscow. International bus tickets are available from window No 7. Buses to Moscow also leave from the train station across the footbridge.