Purchasing an electronic train ticket via the Internet today is a fairly common practice for those who lack the ability or desire to stand in line at the station. The buying process takes very little time and significantly saves you energy and nerves.
Websites for buying an electronic train ticket
The main Internet portal where you can buy an electronic railway ticket is the official website of the Russian Railways https://pass.rzd.ru/. It is quite simple and easy to use, but it has a serious drawback: you can pay for a ticket only with a bank card.
Other sites offer other payment options, including cash. The most popular among them are:
www.tutu.ru/
www.ozon.travel/
vokzal.ru/
When buying a ticket, you should keep in mind that some sites may impose additional fees for using certain payment systems. In this case, the amount will be slightly different from the original.
7 steps to buy an e-ticket
Despite the variety of sites that offer services for issuing electronic train tickets, the purchase scheme is almost the same everywhere and involves entering the same data.
As a rule, when ordering a ticket, seven simple steps are required:
1. Register or log in to the site. This can be done later, but unfortunately, you cannot buy a ticket without entering your personal account on the website. Your personal account stores information about all tickets you have ever bought.
2. Select the departure and arrival stations and the date of the intended trip using a special form. Some sites also offer to select the number of passengers.
3. Among the displayed moving options, select one suitable by clicking on it or putting a tick. The list of proposed trains usually indicates the number and type of train, departure and arrival dates and the time to be spent on the way.
4. Next, you need to select the number and type of carriage from the list, indicating the price and the number of available seats.
5. Select the seat number, if possible, and enter the passenger details. When issuing an electronic railway ticket, you need to know the full name, passport data and, in some cases, information about the place and date of birth of the passenger. If at the beginning you indicated the need to purchase tickets for several passengers, at this stage you must enter the required information for each of them.
6. Pay for the ticket by choosing any of the possible methods. The most common payment options on e-ticketing sites are bank cards, Yandex. Money, Webmoney, and Qiwi terminals. In rare cases, it is possible to pay in cash to the courier, as, for example, on the website
7. Get the number and form of an electronic ticket, which is saved immediately after payment in your personal account on the website.
