Moscow Transportation Tips by johnsakura

Bus to Moscow By Tram, Bus, etc. Review

Info taken from Way to Russia website
Arrival / Departure by Bus
Schyolkovsky Bus Terminal, Moscow
Telephones: (+7 095) 468-0400, 468-4370
The main Moscow bus terminal is located just next to Shchyolkovskaya metro station (the last station to the east on the dark blue line). You can get a bus to almost any Russian town and city from there. When you get inside the station, you'll see signs in English and Russian in front of you. The timetables of the buses and ticket sales offices are on the right, the luggage storage rooms and cafes are on the left. You can leave your luggage for 20-30 rub ($0.7-$1) a day, the luggage storage is closed between 23.00 and 6.30, and they have a break from 14.00 to 15.00.
The Shchyolkovskaya bus station is opened from 6.30 to 23.00.
For bus schedules between Moscow and other cities featured on WayToRussia.Net guide, see Transport / Domestic Bus Schedules.
Directions: go to Shchyolkovskaya metro station (the last station to the east on the dark blue line), take the first carriage from the centrum. As you walk out, there'll be many stalls and little shops around, and a bit further - a large building with "Avtostantsiya" written on top. That's the bus station.

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Type: Bus

Website: http://www.waytorussia.net/Moscow/ArrivalDeparture.html

Trains to and from Moscow By Train Review

Info now taken from Lonely Planet website
Moscow has rail links to most parts of Russia, most former Soviet states, numerous countries in Eastern and Western Europe, and China and Mongolia. Moscow has nine main train stations, all with metro stations on the spot.

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Type: Train

Website: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/moscow/get.htm

Getting There & Away Altogether Review

Info now taken from Lonely Planet website, as it is very useful and good info here it is:

If you're coming in from an overseas flight, Sheremetevo-2 is the airport you'll fly into; there are also four airports to handle travel to domestic destinations and the ex-Soviet states. There's a network of comfy-enough buses that run to places within about a 700km (435mi) radius of Moscow. The city also has 9 main rail stations, and you can jump on trains to most parts of Russia and Europe as well as China and Mongolia.

Sheremetevo-2 airport, 30km (20mi) northwest of the city centre, handles flights to and from places outside the former Soviet Union. There are daily flights by numerous airlines to and from nearly all European and many other world capitals, and many provincial cities, too. A flight from London or Paris takes about three hours, from New York about 10 hours. Four Moscow airports are devoted to flights to and from places within Russia and the other ex-Soviet states. Check-in for flights within the ex-USSR is supposed to close 40 minutes before take-off, but be sure to reach the airport well before that.

International flights from most Moscow airports incur a departure tax which is included in the price of airfares. You can get to all five airports and the city centre cheaply by a combination of bus and metro or suburban train, but if you're going early in the morning or late at night, or have a lot of baggage, you'll probably need a taxi. The easiest approach is to arrange an airport-city transfer through a travel agent; you'll pay no more than an average taxi fare.

Moscow has rail links to most parts of Russia, most former Soviet states, numerous countries in Eastern and Western Europe, and China and Mongolia. Moscow has nine main train stations, all with metro stations on the spot.

Buses run to a number of towns and cities within about 700km (435mi) of Moscow. Buses are reasonably comfortable but to most places they're a bit slower than trains, and less frequent.

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Website: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/moscow/get.htm

Metro yes is the good way By Metro Review

Yes this is the way of going around Moscow. Moscow is big and its subway its one of the biggest and the oldest in the world. It runs quite good and youll end up going everywhere you wish around the city centre and its suburbs.
Tickets cost 13 rb and you have a paper electronic ticket to go with.

SUBWAY MAP OF MOSCOW

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Type: Subway/Metro

St. Petersburg to Moscow 713km By Taxi, Car Review

I drove myself from St. Petersburg to Moscow. I got out of St. Petersburg around 6pm and got arrived in Moscow around 12pm the next day after I stop to sleep a few hours on the way.
The road consitions are bad altouhg it is supposed to be the Intra-states highway conecting Leningradskaya Oblast' + Novgorodskaya Oblast' + Tverskaya Oblast' + Moskovskaya Oblast'.
All the way from St. Petersburg is about 713km with really bad road conditions, bad weather (in my case as I went in winter time), lots of insane truck drivers and small LADA drivers passing like rockets.

I was stop by police once and nothing really happen, just the normal police check out asking for the papers and passport.

On the way out of St. Petersburg there are many Radars and police controling the speed, so go slow even if you dont see the speed limit signs. Always inside city limits I went about 50km/h or 40km/h when signs told so. In major roads I have never passed 80 or 90km/h.

On the picture you have one of the first things i remeber seeing when entering Moscow. This huge dirty truck and the war memorial on the left side as I was waiting for the lights to go green. Yes Yes remeber that even with all cars passing some crazy guy can come against you passing his red light!
Enjoy driving in Russia hehehe and good luck. Just open your eyes and you´ll be fine.
I drove total 4680km on my trip...nothing happen and im still more sharp than before hehehe.

Site for road distances in Russia

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Type: Car/Motor Home

Car traffic By Taxi, Car Review

This is the most insane way of getting around Moscow. If you wish to get a few more white hairs please go ahead. As I arrive in Moscow knowing nothing about where I should go or not, I had to go a bit inside the city to get some information on how to get to my hotel. As i found out I shouldnt have made so far and had to go back a dozen of kms again.

As I got stuck in traffic i had to wait at least 1h30m to go out of it and go back on my way. This wasnt too bad as my experience going out of Moscow direction Vladimir took me almost 3 hours a bit after dark... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!

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Type: Car/Motor Home