In addition to popular railway tourism destinations such as Karelia, the North Caucasus, the Golden Ring, and others, RZD plans to develop routes to Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and also in regions where there was no railway tourism before, for example, on Sakhalin. This was reported by the company in its Telegram channel with reference to the Deputy Head of RZD Ivan Kolesnikov.
According to him, it is also planned to create several permanent thematically decorated trains that will run, providing demand for travel on popular routes of the North Caucasus, the Urals, Siberia, the Far East, and Lake Baikal.
"Today, 55 long-distance tourist routes and 28 suburban routes unite 46 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. According to the results of last year, about 940 thousand passengers used our tourist trains (+ 36% to 2022)," - the company's message says.
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