At Irkutsk Passenger station, you can now buy a suburban train ticket from a ticket vending machine. Five terminals are already installed, and three more will soon appear. Baikal PPC plans to expand self service to other stations, where full travel documents can be issued through machines, trips paid for with bills and coins, and in future additional services used.

At the Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station, a ticket for a suburban train can now be purchased through a ticket-printing machine. Five self-service terminals have already been installed there, and three more are planned.
In 2013, the company purchased 44 ticket-printing machines. 11 machines were put into operation in May; they are intended for use in accordance with the special transport requirements of employees of Russian Railways JSC.
Now Baikal Suburban Passenger Company JSC is installing 33 terminals that will make it possible to issue full travel documents to other categories of passengers. The terminals will also operate at the Irkutsk-Sortirovochny, Angarsk, Cheremkhovo, Zima, Usolye-Sibirskoye, Vikhorevka, Tayshet, and Nizhneudinsk stations.
At the machine, it is possible to purchase tickets at the full fare for trains numbered 6000 and 7000 — a one-way ticket for one trip, and a round-trip ticket. The issuance of concessionary tickets by the machine is not provided.
When purchasing a travel document through the machine, one can use paper banknotes with denominations of 50 and 100 rubles and coins of various denominations. If necessary, the machine gives change.
In the near future, through the self-service terminals, the company intends to implement a service for accepting payments for mobile communications and providing reference information on suburban train schedules, as well as to enable payments by bank card.
According to the company’s plans, at stations equipped with ticket-printing machines, the share of sales through machines will amount to at least 10% of paid ticket sales. For example, in the summer season at the Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station, the company intends to sell at least 4,500 tickets per month through the new equipment.
Based on materials from the press service of the Baikal Suburban Passenger Company