Zhukovsky airport is the youngest in the cohort of the capital's airports. Its services are daily used by thousands of passengers, most of whom get to it from the Kazan station. This is the most convenient way.
Zhukovsky international airport is located in the Moscow region, in the Zhukovsky urban district at Narkomvod street, 3. Many domestic Russian flights depart from here every day, as well as to the CIS countries and far abroad. Routes to Sochi, St. Petersburg, Osh, Simferopol, Tbilisi, Dushanbe, Minsk, Tel Aviv, Rome, Prague are very popular.
The airport is located at a respectful distance from the Moscow Ring Road and the nearest metro stations "Kotelniki" and "Nekrasovka", in all cases the distance in a straight line is about 20 km. Therefore, most of the airport passengers get to it from the Kazansky railway station, located in the Krasnoselsky district of the capital at 2 Komsomolskaya square. From this station you need to go by suburban train to the "Otdykh" platform, where the electric trains of the following directions make a stop:
- Vinogradovo
- Golutvin
- Lukhovitsy
- Platform 47km
- Ramenskoye (express)
- Ryazan-1
- Faustovo
- Slate
The schedule of electric trains sometimes changes depending on the season, it must be monitored on the information board of the Kazan station. However, for passengers of Zhukovsky airport this will not be a big hindrance, since the maximum waiting time for the next train will not exceed half an hour, excluding early morning and late evening. The first train leaves at 05:02, the last at 00:55.
The cost of tickets as of the fall of 2019 is 115 rubles. on a regular train, 185r. on high-speed electric trains REKS and Sputnik. Travel time will be 37-39 minutes on fast trains, 56-59 minutes on regular trains. It is important to remember here that tickets purchased for high-speed trains can also be used for regular trains, but a ticket purchased for a regular train will be invalid in the ambulance.
It should be borne in mind that the Otdykh platform can be reached not only directly from the Kazan station itself, but also from the associated railway stations of the Kazan direction:
- Electrozavodskaya
- Moscow-sorting
- New
- Fraser
- Perovo
- Plyushchevo
- Veshnyaki
- Vykhino
- Kosino
All of these stations are located inside the Moscow Ring Road or are within walking distance from the nearest metro station.
Arriving at the Otdykh platform, the passenger should go to the right side relative to the train movement, walk several tens of meters to the shopping center of the same name, near which buses to Zhukovsky airport are boarding. Departure every half hour, the cost of tickets is 100 rubles. for adult passengers, 25 rubles. for kids. Travel time is 30 minutes. An important point should be noted: tickets for a shuttle bus from the Otdykh platform to the airport can be purchased simultaneously with tickets for the train at Kazansky railway station.
