The city of Volgograd during the Great Patriotic War became the site of the most important battle between the USSR and Germany. Today this settlement is one of the leading industrial centers in Russia.
Instructions
Step 1
You can get to Volgograd using the intercity bus service, which is quite developed here. Buses run regularly from this city to Moscow, Naberezhnye Chelny, Krasnodar, Astrakhan, Kazan, Saratov, Rostov and some other cities of Russia. Volgograd also has an international bus service with Baku, Kiev, Odessa, Donetsk, Elista, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, etc. It should be noted that there are two bus stations in Volgograd: central and southern, the second of them serves regional and transit intercity bus routes.
Step 2
Having your own car will allow the traveler to get to Volgograd on their own. The following highways pass through this settlement: "P22" (Caspian Sea) "Moscow-Tambov-Volgograd-Astrakhan" and "P228" "Syzran-Volgograd". In addition, this is where the A260 highway begins (in some maps - M21), which connects Volgograd with Rostov, and then with Ukraine.
Step 3
There are two railway stations in this settlement: Volgograd-1 and Volgograd-2. The first serves mainly long-distance trains, while the second serves only suburban traffic. Volgograd has a direct railway connection with Moscow, Adler, Saratov, Baku, Kislovodsk, Novokuznetsk, St. Petersburg, Anapa, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Severobaikalsk, Barnaul, Grozny, Nizhny Novgorod, Permorossiysk, Novorossiysk and many other cities of Russia. In addition, about 40 seasonal additional trains run through Volgograd in the summer season, connecting the south of Russia with remote corners of the country.
Step 4
You can also get to Volgograd by plane. This settlement has direct communication with Moscow (Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo), Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Mineralnye Vody, Surgut. On average, the flight time from Moscow to Volgograd is 1 hour 45 minutes - 2 hours 5 minutes. Also, Volgograd regularly operates international flights to Antalya, Sharm el-Sheikh, Rhodes, Hurghada, Thessaloniki, Dushanbe, Tashkent.
Step 5
The oldest transport in Volgograd is river navigation, which is carried out along the Volga. However, regular intercity flights from Volgograd to other regions of Russia are not carried out, and it is possible to get to the hero city in this way only with the help of cruise liners.
