Known date of opening of railway traffic on the Crimean bridge
During the meeting of the Committee of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea on sanatorium-resort complex and tourism, the launch date of the railway link on the Crimean Bridge was announced – December 2019.
Director General of the Crimean Railway Alexey Gladilin says that railway tickets will go on sale from December 9, 2019.
The first to open 10 railway lines. From Moscow - to Simferopol, Sevastopol, Evpatoria, Feodosia. From St. Petersburg - to Sevastopol, Evpatoria. From Murmansk, ekaterinburg. bryansk. kislovodsk - to Simferopol.
There is information that passenger traffic by rail to Crimea in 2020 will amount to 2.6 million passengers per year, and by 2025 - 4.1 million tourists.
Tour operators report that the opening of direct rail links to the peninsula will give it the opportunity to increase the tourist flow from mainland Russia.
The press service of one of the domestic tourist operators reports statistics of 2018, when after the opening of traffic on the Crimean bridge. The number of applications for tours to Crimea increased by 36%, the number of bookings in comparison with the same period last year increased by 12%.