The city of Mineralnye Vody is located in the south of the Stavropol Territory and is a convenient transport hub. In Mineralnye Vody, the bus and railway station, as well as the airport, are located close to each other. With the help of bus stations you can get to different cities of the European part of the country and the North Caucasus.
Features of suburban bus station
If you arrive in the city by train, it is quite easy to get to the suburban bus station of Mineralnye Vody. You need to go a little south of the railway station to the Moscow Industrial Bank and turn west near it, on Gagarin Street. The bus station is located at house number 98. Minibuses number 2, 3, 6, 8, 14 go to it from different parts of the city. Grocery stores, a tire shop, a public toilet, a pharmacy kiosk and even a monument to a 1938 model howitzer are located near the building. About 5 kilometers to the airport, 10 minutes by taxi.
Buses from here go mainly to the nearest cities, for example, Essentuki, Lermontov, Pyatigorsk, Zheleznovodsk. Bus number 108 goes to the village Grazhdanskoe to the west of the city. Flight number 119 goes toKumagorsk. Flight 128 heads south to Goryachevodsk and makes a stop near the waterfall and the terminus of the Pyatigorsk trams. Essentukov bus station can be reached by bus 133.
Features of the new bus station
The second bus station is more modern, located in the southern part of the city near the Ruslan market on Sovetskaya Street, which is part of the E-117 highway. How to get to the Mineralnye Vody bus station? Not far from it is the stop "Ploshad Pobedy", buses No. 17 and No. 105 stop near it. At another point - "House of Defense", there are buses No. 16 and minibuses 2, 3, 6, 11, 14, 17. 11 is convenient for those who get to the Mineralnye Vody bus station from the airport.
The hub is open from 5 am to 11 pm. Flights are organized to many cities. In the east, Derbent is the farthest settlement you can get to, buses from Novorossiysk, Krasnodar and Kislovodsk run to it.
There is a bus to Sochi (from Kislovodsk) and flights to the Crimean peninsula, for example, to Simferopol (18 hours away).
It takes 22 hours to get to Moscow, but buses are offered only from Yerevan. Therefore, it is much more convenient to travel by train. The trip to St. Petersburg will take the longest - a day and 7 hours.
International flights
From the bus station of Mineralnye Vody you can also buy tickets for international flights. At 11:55 a bus leaves for Sukhumi (21 hours on the way).
South directions - Tbilisi and Yerevan. Even a local flight is organized to the capital of Georgia with a departure at 7 am. Passing buses run to Yerevan from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Stavropol.
