The city of Yaroslavl is part of the famous Golden Ring of Russia. This is one of the oldest and most beautiful Russian cities. We see its sights every time we look at a banknote of 1000 rubles.
Yaroslavsky Station Yaroslavl-Glavny is a real visiting card of the ancient city. Anyone who is going to visit it will benefit from the following information.
Directions
There are two railway stations in the city. The main one is the Yaroslavl-Glavny railway station. In addition, there is also Yaroslavl-Moscow.
There are 4 railway platforms at the main station of the city, 3 of them are island and 1 side. The exit to the first platform is through the station building, and to the rest - through an underground tunnel.
This major transportation hub has direct links to many cities in Russia and abroad. Through Yaroslavl, long-distance trains go to Moscow and Abakan, St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk, Anapa and Novorossiysk, Minsk, Labytnangi, Chita, Ufa and other settlements. Travel time to Moscow is 3.5-5 hours.
Alsosuburban trains depart from here. Electric trains head to Kostroma, Ivanovo, Danilov, Alexandrov and Rybinsk.
Opening hours and services provided
The address of the Yaroslavl-Glavny railway station cannot be forgotten, because it sounds almost identical: Yaroslavl-Glavny Square, 1A.
The station accepts passengers around the clock. Travel documents for trains can be issued at long-distance ticket offices or at a self-service terminal. Cash desks work according to the schedule with technological breaks.
At ticket office number 7, in addition to tickets for long-distance trains, you can issue a travel document for international routes. The cash desk is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with technological breaks. Closed: Saturday and Sunday.
Electric train ticket offices are located in the main building.
At the Yaroslavl-Glavny railway station, travelers can use standard services:
- issue or return a travel document;
- storage luggage and hand luggage;
- get a certificate of fare and rail transportation (including written one);
- use the break room and mother-child room;
- book a hall to receive an official delegation;
- make photocopies, etc.
Also in the station building there are cafes, shops, ATMs, a linear police department, a first-aid post, a toilet. Wi-Fi and the free Video Newsletter video mail service are working. To get the necessary information, you can call the information desk of the Yaroslavl stationChief.
How to get there
It will not be difficult to get to the place. For example, a traveler by public transport will spend 30 minutes on the road from the bus station without transfers. By car, the same distance can be covered in 15 minutes.
The public transport stop is located right in front of the train station, where the following routes arrive:
- trolleybuses No. 1, 3, 5;
- buses 8, 9, 11, 17, 30, 44, 49, 55, 55k, 72, 76, 93g, 121a, 127a, 139, 140;
- buses 45, 81, 99, 143, 176.
What to see nearby
If you have free time while traveling before the train leaves, spend it on sightseeing. At a distance of just a few kilometers from the station, you can see a lot of interesting things.
Twenty minutes by bus to Bogoyavlenskaya Square - and in front of you is a monument to Yaroslav the Wise, the founder of the city. It is he who is printed on the front side of the thousandth bill. Nearby is the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, the main architectural monument of the city.
Not far from the square at the crossroads of Pervomaiskaya and Nakhimson streets, a monument to the symbol of the city, the bear, was erected. The sculpture is interactive, every hour it makes a sound reminiscent of the roar of an animal.
If you drive a little further to the river, you can walk along the wonderful Volga embankment, admire the old merchant houses, listen to singing fountains, visit museumsnearby.
History of the station
The railway in the city was opened at the very beginning of 1870, stretching from Yaroslavl to Sergiev Posad. From this moment, the construction of paths in other directions begins. They were supposed to connect Yaroslavl with Kostroma, Vologda and Rybinsk.
In 1898, a one-story wooden station Vspolye was built - the future Yaroslavl-Glavny station. If you look into the explanatory dictionary of V. Dahl, then we will find out that the field is the beginning of the field, the place around the outskirts.
In 1913, they pave the way from Moscow to Vyatka through the Vspolye station. From that time on, it became the main one in the city and in 1916 received a new, more spacious building. In the 1920s, a square was built in front of the railway station.
Vspolye is gradually becoming the central station of the city. The building that now houses the station was put into operation in 1952. The architects were N. Panchenko and M. Shpotov. The style of the building is neoclassicism or Stalinist Empire, which was popular at that time. In 1977, the station ensemble was replenished with an underpass and a building for ticket offices.
Yaroslavl-Glavny Station received its modern name in 1958. Complete decoration of the nearby square and adjacent buildings was completed by 1985. Reconstruction was carried out in 2008.
Northern Railway
Yaroslavl-Glavny railway station is part of the structure of the Northern Railway. This is one of 16railway lines of our country with a length of more than 8, 6 thousand km. In addition to Yaroslavl, the road passes through Kostroma, Vologda, Arkhangelsk, Syktyvkar, Ivanovo and Vorkuta.
In 2016, the Northern Railway transported more than 58 million tons of cargo, including construction materials, timber, ferrous metals, paper, coal, oil. More than 16 million trips are made every year by highway passengers.
The Yaroslavl branch of the Northern Railway crosses several regions: Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Tver and, of course, Yaroslavl.
