The East Siberian branch of FPK said tickets for reserved seat cars on May 9 will be discounted, travel on some routes from Irkutsk will cost almost half the average yearly price. On Irkutsk Zabaikalsk, passengers can save over a thousand rubles. An extra train 522 521 will also run for the May holidays.
So, for example, if the average annual fare on train No. 87/88 from Irkutsk to Ust-Ilimsk in a reserved-seat carriage is 1,881.9 rubles, then when buying a ticket on May 9, taking the discount into account, the ticket price will be 940.9 rubles.The fare in a reserved-seat carriage on train 362/361 running Irkutsk-Ulan-Ude, taking the discount into account, will be only 395.3 rubles (790.6 is the average annual value), and on No. 87/88 running Irkutsk-Tayshet — 535.6 rubles (1,071.3 is the average annual value).
In addition, during the May holidays, the East Siberian branch of JSC "FPK" is introducing an additional train No. 522/521 running Irkutsk-Zabaykalsk. The fare on this route in the branded train (No. 322/321) averages 1,963.2 rubles per year; by buying a ticket on May 9 in the reserved-seat carriage of the additional train, a passenger will pay only 861 rubles for the trip on this route. The savings on buying a ticket for this train will amount to more than 1,000 rubles.
Based on materials from the press service of the East Siberian Railway