05:36, 14 March 2015

UTD resumes single-ticket travels to Crimea

Port "Kavkaz". Seaport buildings. Photo by Ilyas Bogatyryov for the "Caucasian Knot"

The United Transport Directorate (UTD) has decided to resume, since April 30, transportation of passengers from the Krasnodar Territory to the Crimea under the so-called "single ticket".

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the single ticket to the Crimea under the scheme "railway-ferry-bus" allows reaching one of seven cities of the peninsula, bypassing Ukraine. Single tickets, offering passengers the route via Krasnodar, Anapa and port "Kavkaz", were sold by Russian Railways from April 28 till December 1, 2014, that is, till the end of the resort season.

As reported by the UTD, on its website, the transportation scheme under a single ticket for the resort season of 2015 assumes five directions.

Thus, the offered route comprises delivery of passengers by train to Anapa, then, either under the scheme "bus-ferry-bus" to any of the 5 cities of the Crimean Federal District (Sudak, Feodosia, Simferopol, Sevastopol and Evpatoria), or by catamaran to Yalta. Another direction assumes delivery of tourists by train to Krasnodar, and then by "bus-ferry-bus" to Kerch.

In 2014, over 350,000 passengers used the single-ticket system, said the UTD.

To date, transportation from the Taman Peninsula (Krasnodar Territory) to the Crimea is carried out by means of the Kerch ferry crossing. After the annexation of the Crimea to Russia, the problem of transport communication with the peninsula has escalated – ferries do not always cope with the flow of goods and people.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.