Vladivostok-Moscow: a trip across Russia for 6 days

Vladivostok is the capital of Primorsky Krai with a huge trading port. It was laid in 1860 as a Russian Far Eastern outpost on the Pacific coast and is still fulfilling this mission.

Vladivostok is the pearl of Primorye

The city with a population of more than 600 thousand people is located on a peninsula, very prominent in the Sea of Japan and washed by the Amur Bay from the west, and from the east - Ussuri. It is built on the slopes of the hills, and its central part extends along the northern shore of the world famous Golden Horn.

The size of the city: from north to south about 30 kilometers, and from east to west - 10.

Vladivostok and Sochi are at the same latitude, watermelons with apricots are also here, but the climate in Primorye is more severe. The coldest winter month is January, its average temperature is minus 13 ° C, but with a furious, burning wind it seems like all 30 ° C of frost. Spring is quite cold, prolonged, until June. In summer, most of the annual precipitation falls. The warmest month is August, its average temperature is above 20 ° C. Autumn is passing quickly. Townspeople are used to frequent typhoons and strong winds from the west, then from the east.

The city has many attractions:

• The building of the railway station, built in the Neo-Russian style, like the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow (they both symbolized the starting and ending points of the Trans-Siberian railway).
• Viewing platforms, from where you can endlessly admire the excellent views of the embankments, bridges across the Golden Horn and the ocean.
• Funicular, built in the 70's of last century. He slowly, step by step leaves the Old Town and approaches the modern extravagant high-rise buildings, bringing tourists to the top of the hill, where a magnificent panorama of Vladivostok opens.
• Vladivostok Arbat - Admiral Fokin Street, which leads to the embankment and has become one of the favorite places of the city residents.
• Rope park, where you can imagine yourself as Tarzan, cleverly flying from one tree to another.
• Oceanarium, where in one place you can see the entire Pacific fauna and flora.
• The only dolphinarium in the Far East.
• Japanese garden of stones, making you stop and think about the eternal.
• Monument to Vladimir Vysotsky.
• The Wax Museum.

How far is Vladivostok from Moscow?

Vladivostok - Moscow - the distance when driving by car along the motorway is 9302 kilometers, and along a straight line (on the map) - 6417 kilometers.

For comparison, the distance to Vladivostok from:

• Novosibirsk - 5727 km.
• Krasnoyarsk - 5196 km.
• Yaroslavl - 9020 km.

Vladivostok - Moscow: the difference in time

Moscow is located east of Greenwich and is in the 2nd time zone, which differs from the worldwide coordinated time by three hours (UTC +3).

The Primorye Territory and, therefore, Vladivostok belong to the 9th time zone (UTC + 10).

Thus, local time in Primorye = Moscow time + 7 hours.

Schedule Vladivostok - Moscow: train

The schedule for 2015-2016 (the date and time should be specified at the railway ticket office):

In the direction of Vladivostok - Moscow there are direct trains: 001M and 099E.

The firm train "Russia" No. 001M comes to Moscow in 6 days and 1 hour.

The train has sleeping and sleeping cars of high comfort with TVs, refrigerators, electric hot plates and microwave ovens, shower cabins, as well as household couches with a hairdryer, ironing board and iron.

Passengers 2-3 times a day get a hot meal right in the compartment.

All cars outside are painted in the color of Russian tricolor.

The cost of tickets for the company train "Russia":

Normal train No. 099E arrives in Moscow almost a day later: in 6 days and 18 hours.

Tickets for this flight:

Also on the route Vladivostok - Moscow you can go with transfers from Novosibirsk and Novokuznetsk on trains Nos. 007H, 207E, 107E.

All the trains of the eastern direction arrive in Moscow at the Yaroslavsky Railway Station.