How to get to the Crimea quickly and without problems? Optimal routes to the Crimea

For many citizens of Russia joining the Crimea is a significant event. However, many more questions remain unresolved. It's not a secret that the tourism industry brings the main income to the peninsula's budget, and in recent years it has been rapidly dying out. Lost the former grandeur of the sanatorium and hotel, leaves much to be desired infrastructure, "overgrown with grass" tourist routes. Currently, the Russian government is sending huge sums to revive the resort holiday in Crimea, and this summer the peninsula is ready to host tens of thousands of tourists. However, on the way of integration of the republic the problem arose - the transport component. How to get to the Crimea today, when the way through the territory of Ukraine is closed? How to get to the peninsula, bypassing this state? How much money and time do you have to spend? This will be discussed in the article.

Temporarily occupied territory

On April 27, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a law concerning the Crimea peninsula, according to one of the provisions of which now foreigners should receive special permission to cross the Ukrainian-Crimean border. Thus, it turns out that henceforth the route to Crimea by land (by train or car) through Ukraine is virtually impossible, because hardly anyone decides to go to Kiev for a special permit. An attempt to cross the border without him will be punishable by a fine or arrest. Since May 27, Russia may have suspended the sale of tickets for trains following the Ukrainian territory to the Crimea, since train schedules have not yet been fully agreed with the State Administration of the Ukrainian Railway Transport. As you all know, the land border between the mainland of Russia and the peninsula is not, because how to get to the Crimea? Option two: either through the air, or through the Kerch Strait.

First of all planes

Of course, the fastest and most convenient way to get to the peninsula is to fly. From April 25, the planes of Aeroflot began to run in the direction of Moscow-Simferopol from Sheremetyevo International Airport. With all fees, the price of a one-way ticket is 4,000 rubles, and a round-trip ticket costs 7,500 rubles. Starting from June 1, Aeroflot will perform 8 flights daily from Simferopol to Moscow. The available fares are offered by other airlines, the price of tickets sometimes starts from 3 thousand rubles, however they are far from each flight. Also in Simferopol regular flights from other Russian cities: St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Orenburg. In plans to establish air communication with Kazan, Surgut, Omsk, Mineralnye Vody, Kirov, Grozny. You should take care of buying an air ticket in advance, otherwise there may not be available seats for the required dates.

Single ticket

For those people who can not get to Crimea by train except from April 28, the sale of single tickets, combining sea, bus and railway communication, began. Initially, the Ministry of Transport informed that such tickets can be bought only from the beginning of June, but the agency specialists managed to settle all organizational issues ahead of schedule. Already on the first day of the sale, on April 28, over one hundred combined tickets were sold, and by May 5 nearly seven hundred travel documents had been sold. You can buy a single ticket in any city in the railway ticket office, but keep in mind that a day before the date of travel the sale ends, because the operator needs to have all the information on the number of passengers in advance. So, how to get to the Crimea on such a travel document? In the ticket office, along with a ticket for the train, you will be issued a boarding coupon "bus-ferry-bus". Thus, passengers are invited from their city (or another city from which trains are sent on the required route) first by train to reach one of the nearest railway stations - Anapa or Krasnodar. Then transfer to the bus that will proceed to the port of Kavkaz, there you change to the ferryboat that goes to Kerch, then again take the bus and get there to the destination. In the Ministry of Transport for a long time thought about how it is cheaper to get to the Crimea people, bypassing the Ukrainian territory, and decided that such intermodal transport is the most optimal option. Next, let's talk about the monetary and time costs for a trip on a single ticket.

Moscow-Crimea: how to get to the peninsula?

Passage through the Kerch crossing to passengers will cost about the same price as before, on a direct rail route through the territory of Ukraine, but the time travel will take much more. For example, now the ticket to the reserved car of the train "Moscow-Anapa" costs 2400 rubles, the purchase of a single ticket on the route "Anapa-Simferopol" will cost 350 rubles, total - 2750 rubles. Last year, exactly the same price had a ticket for a direct train "Moscow-Simferopol", the next through Ukraine. True, this train reached Simferopol in 20 hours, now it's only 28 hours to spend on the road to Anapa, 30 hours to Krasnodar - 30 hours (speed trains are not taken into account). Then, holders of a single ticket need to change to a bus to the port "Caucasus" - the road from Anapa will take another 1.5 hours, from Krasnodar - 3 hours. To this we add a trip to the Crimean coast by ferry - 40 minutes. In the port "Crimea", on the other side of the strait, tourists are again waiting for buses that will take them to rest places. The distance to Sevastopol is 300 kilometers, you can reach an average of 5 hours, to Simferopol - 210 km (4 hours), to Sudak and Feodosiya - 150 km (3.15 hours), to Yalta - 281 km (5 hours), to Evpatoria - 289 km (5 hours).

Thus, according to the most minimal estimates, the road to Simferopol from Moscow (via Anapa) will take you 34 hours. This is theoretically. Practically it will be much longer, because we did not take into account the time for transplants, traffic jams and so on. But the biggest problem today is the speed of the crossing of the Kerch Strait. Despite the fact that she works in an intensive mode, the case is 40 minutes, as a rule, is not limited.

For reference

The fixed cost of a single ticket is:

• From Anapa: 430 rubles to Sevastopol, 420 rubles to Yevpatoria, Simferopol, Sudak, Feodosia, Yalta - 350 rubles, to Kerch - 150 rubles.
• From Krasnodar: Sevastopol - 830 rubles., In Evpatoria - 820 rubles., Simferopol, Sudak, Feodosia, Yalta - 750 rubles., In Kerch - 250 rubles.

Crimea: how to get there by car

From the European part of the country to the Krasnodar region should go on the federal highway M4 "Don" - this is one of the most modern and high-quality roads in Russia. For travelers from the east (from the Volga region, the Urals, from Siberia), the route through Saratov-Balashov-Novokhopersk-Kalach-Boguchar with an exit on the same highway M4 will be attractive. Please note: from the M4 highway 90 kilometers south of Rostov-on-Don, turn off at the sign "Leningradskaya" and continue through Kislyakovskaya-Leningrad-Timashevsk-Slavyansk-on-Kuban-Temryuk to the port "Caucasus". Teach that there will be five paid sections of the road on the M4 highway. Day for them (from 7 am to midnight) have to pay 290 rubles, at night - 205 rubles.

The ferry, the ferry! Coast left, shore right ...

Now you know how to get to the Crimea on the ground. The paths of those traveling by car and those traveling by single ticket (by train, then by bus) will ultimately converge at one point - on the western tip of the Taman Peninsula, from where the ferry will cross the Kerch Strait. It is not wide, only 4 kilometers, however, until the bridge is built (it is expected to appear no earlier than 2018), we have to use ferries. Now, three ferries run through the strait: the newest car-passenger watercraft "Nikolay Aksenenko", put into operation only at the end of 2013, the car ferry "Yeisk" and the ferry-icebreaker "Kerch-2".

Through the strait on a catamaran

Also on May 1 regular flights of high-speed catamarans "Sochi-1" and "Sochi-2" were opened. They ply to Kerch not only from the port "Caucasus", but directly from Anapa. The trip on the route "Anapa-Kerch" will take about two hours and will cost 1000 rubles. There are four flights a day. A catamaran moving to Kerch from the port of Kavkaz overcomes the path on average in 30 minutes, the ticket for it costs 162 rubles. On the day he manages to make eight flights. Catamarans are designed for the transportation of three hundred passengers, these are two-deck forty-meter ships, with panoramic glazing of the cabin, equipped with air conditioning. As reported by ANO "Unified Transport Directorate", both ships are capable of carrying 3600 people daily.

From Russia to Russia

We hope, from the article you understood how to get to the Crimea by different modes of transport. But those who decided to travel by car want to advise us to be patient. The fact is that huge queues of cars accumulate on the ferry. The jams reach seven kilometers in length. And if the buses do not stand in the general line and enter the ferry relatively quickly (the time losses do not exceed, as a rule, two hours), then drivers and passengers of cars in the May holidays had to wait their turn for ten or more hours, and freight wagons "stuck "For several days. The authorities had to take urgent measures: every five hundred meters, tents with water and food were delivered and medical stations were set up. And in order to brighten up the waiting process, the scene was established and the famous Kuban collectives were invited for performances.

Finally

After reading the article, everyone will determine for themselves how to get to the Crimea better. Of course, transport logistics are not yet built in an ideal way, but the organizers of transportation do everything possible to establish an uninterrupted operation. Nevertheless, people who have had to wait their turn on the ferry for long hours, say that they have not lost a positive attitude. Perhaps, it was in the special spirit of the heroic cities of the Crimea? In the cathedral of St. Vladimir that flashed outside the window in Sevastopol, a nest above the sea, the castle of Lastochkino near Yalta or the stupefying smell of Simferopol lilacs?