Russian Railways announces launch of multimodal route from Moscow to Baikal
As part of the project for the development of multimodal transportation, Russian Railways plans to launch a tourist route on the Moscow-Lake Baikal line at the end of June, combining railway, water and air transport.
Deputy General Director of Russian Railways Dmitry Pegov said that this will be “a different level of service”.
In addition to the Meteor, which will go to Olkhon Island in our program, there is also a plane. It will transport our tourists for docking.”
This route will be worked out within the framework of the agreement between Rostourism and Russian Railways with a visit to Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk and the Circum-Baikal Railway, and will unite three modes of transport: train + ship Meteor + aircraft.
The parties intend to jointly develop, expand and popularize railway tourist routes in Russia. For the first time, the agreement enshrines the development of new rail tourism products.
In Russian Railways can not yet name the cost of future multimodal travel.
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