Many, in order to buy a train ticket, still take a passport, go to the station and stand in line at the ticket office. Although this is not at all necessary when the Internet is at hand. You can buy a Russian Railways ticket without leaving your home.
Instructions
Step 1
You can buy a Russian Railways ticket online using a bank card - debit or credit. Fortunately, cards are now very common, many people get paid on them. If suddenly there is not a single card, it is better to have it - it is very convenient and makes it possible to remotely pay not only for train tickets, but also much more.
Step 2
We register on the official website of Russian Railways, in the online ticket purchase service ticket.rzd.ru. We go into your account and select the item "Buy a ticket", and then "Purchase a ticket". If you are not logged in, this item will not be in your menu. In the search, enter the cities of departure and arrival, as well as dates. The site gives us a list of available flights.
Step 3
We choose the appropriate one from the proposed options. The list contains information about flight numbers, departure and arrival times, travel time, ticket prices and the number of free seats in carriages of different types (for example, K - compartment, P - reserved seat, L - luxury). Next, to buy a Russian Railways ticket online, choose the train you need. The next page shows the availability of seats in all available carriages of the train, sorted by carriage type and location (top, bottom). We select the required carriage.
Step 4
It will not work to buy a Russian Railways ticket online, as well as through the ticket office, for a specific seat, you can only indicate whether it is upper or lower, the range of seat numbers (from and to) and tick the box "In one compartment" or "In one compartment of a reserved seat carriage "if tickets are bought for two or more people.
Step 5
Next, we enter the passport data of everyone for whom you are going to buy Russian Railways tickets online. Here everything is according to the standard scheme - as when paying for the Internet, cellular communication or online purchase of goods. We enter the bank card details, the sms-confirmation code that we receive from the bank - and the tickets are purchased.
Step 6
Tickets can be of two types - electronic ticket and electronic registration. In the first case, you need to print a ticket form with a barcode for the trip, and in the second, you just need to show your passport to the conductor at the entrance to the carriage.