Suzdal Transport

Suzdal is a small town 38 kilometers (24 miles) north of Vladimir, and 217 kilometers (130 miles) north-east from Moscow. It is the second stop along Golden Ring, one of the most interesting.

BY TRAIN.
There is no railway in Suzdal, so there's no train connection with the other cities of the Golden Ring. The closest railway station is 30 kilometers on the north-west of the town (in Gavilov Pasad).

BY BUS.
There are intercity (mezhdogo`rodnie) and local (oblast`nye - ӷ·ÒÚÌ?Â) buses that go through Suzdal from / to Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Ryazan, Minsk (Belorussia).
The tickets for the transit buses (that go through Suzdal somewhere else) are sold upon the arrival, because sometimes the buses don't arrive on time, they are too old (second hand buses from Germany, still with adverts from the 80s). But it's better to queue beforehand, to be sure you'll have the tickets.
Useful tips: [how to read the bus schedules?] - opens in a new window
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The bus station. Opened from 5.00 until 20.00, all the buses also depart and arrive between these times.
Phones: information: (09231) 2-13-43, 2-01-47. How to get there: it's located 20 minutes walking along Vasilievskaya (‚‡ÒËθ‚Ò͇) st. from the Trading Arcades (or Sovetskaya sq)

BUS SCHEDULES TO/FROM SUZDAL.
Note, bus schedules change quite often. The information below is as of 14th August, 2001, and is subject to change. Sometimes the buses are canceled or postponed, be careful.
Here we list the buses with the cities where they depart from and their final destinations, because you'll need this information to buy the tickets. For example, if you want to go to Kostroma from Suzdal, you need to take a bus that goes from Vladimir, stops in Suzdal and then goes further to Kostroma.

MOSCOW - VLADIMIR - SUZDAL Time: around 4h10m

Daily transit buses depart Moscow, Shchyolkovsky bus terminal, go through Vladimir, the destination is in brackets. Total time: around 3h, price 100 roub ($3.5) Depart Moscow: daily 7.00 (goes to Ivanovo), 8.00 (goes to Nizhni Novgorod - NN), 8.40 (goes to Ivanovo), 9.30 (goes to Ivanovo), 9.40 (goes to NN), 11.20 (goes to Kovrov), 12.10 (goes to Ivanovo), 12.30 (goes to NN), 13.05 (goes to Vladimir, arr. 16.47), 14.45 (goes to Vladimir, arr. 18.07), 15.30 (goes to Murom), 17.55 (goes to Vladimir), 18.30 (goes to Vladimir, arr. 21.12), 19.30 (goes to Vladimir, arr. 22.47), 20.30 (goes to Vladimir, arr. 23.47), 21.00 (goes to Vladimir, arr. at 0.17) CHANGE TO Daily direct buses from Vladimir to Suzdal. Total time: 1h10m, price: 13 roub ($0.4) Depart Vladimir: daily 6.40, 8.00, 8.40, 9.40, 10.30, 11.30, 12.35, 13.35, 14.15, 15.15, 16.30, 17.20, 18.15, 19.30, 21.40.

SUZDAL - VLADIMIR - MOSCOW Time: around 4h20m

Daily direct bus Suzdal - Vladimir - Moscow (Shchyolkovski). Total Time: 4h20m, price: 87 roub. ($3) Departs Suzdal: daily 5.00 OR Daily transit buses Ivanovo - Suzdal - Vladimir - Moscow (Shchyolkovski). Total time: 4h20m, price: 86 roub. ($3) Depart Suzdal: daily 11.05, 13.20, 16.40, 17.35

SUZDAL - VLADIMIR Time: around 1h30m - 2h00m

Daily transit buses Ivanovo - Suzdal - Vladimir. Total time: 1h10m, price: around 16 roub. ($0.6) Departs Suzdal: daily 7.40, 10.25, 11.45, 12.45, 15.00, 18.10, 18.30, 19.20. OR Daily transit bus Kostroma - Suzdal - Vladimir. Total time: 1h10m, price: 16 roub. ($0.6) Departs Suzdal: daily 16.05

SUZDAL - IVANOVO Time: around 1h30m

Daily transit bus Vladimir - Suzdal - Ivanovo. Price: around 30 roub. ($1) Departs Suzdal: daily 6.55, 9.10, 10.25, 14.25, 15.10, 16.55, 17.45, 18.45 OR Daily transit bus Moscow - Vladimir - Suzdal - Ivanovo. Price: around 32 roub. ($1.1) Departs Suzdal: daily 11.25, 13.30, 13.50, 16.40, 17.25, 19.25

SUZDAL - YAROSLAVL Total time: around 4 hours

Transit bus Vladmir - Suzdal - Yaroslavl Total time: around 4h, Price: around 95 roub. ($3.5) Departs Suzdal: 8.20 (mon, thu, sat, sun)

SUZDAL - KOSTROMA Total time: around 2h30m to 3h

Daily transit bus Vladimir - Suzdal - Kostroma. Price: around 100 roub. ($3.5) Departs Suzdal: daily 12.55 OR Take a daily transit bus Vladimir - Suzdal - Ivanovo (see the schedule above), and then change to one of the direct daily buses Ivanovo - Vladimir below: Daily direct buses Ivanovo - Kostroma. Total time: around 2h30m to 3h. Price: 60 roub. ($2) Departs Ivanovo: 7.05, 7.55, 10.30, 11.55, 14.40, 16.20, 18.10

THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT .
Suzdal is a place to walk, but if you really want to take a bus, there's a route number 3, that departs from 6.00 to 19.00 every 45 minutes from the main bus station, and goes through the town center.
If you want to take a taxi, just wave down a car.