Kiev entered the top five most popular destinations of the near abroad Russians traveling on trains and buses. About it reported in a press release, tourist service Tutu.ru received by the editors”.<url>” on Tuesday, July 19.
The company’s experts analyzed data on tickets purchased through the website in June 2016. The capital of Ukraine was the second most popular among Russians direction of the train.
The average price of a ticket to Kiev from Moscow amounted to more than 5.8 thousand rubles. This is 33 percent more than the same indicator in June 2015.
The most popular train direction this year was the route Moscow — Minsk (3.7 thousand rubles, a growth of 13.5 percent). Closes the three Brest (4.3 thousand rubles, plus 4 percent compared to June of 2015). In the top-5 routes are also included Saint Petersburg — Minsk and Moscow — Kharkov.
As for bus directions, that Kiev is in fourth place. From Moscow to the Ukrainian capital can be reached in an average of 1.3 thousand rubles.
The leader of this rating — trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow and back. The top five also includes Rostov-on-don, Krasnodar and Nizhny Novgorod departing from the Russian capital.
In March, tourist service OneTwoTrip called Kiev the most popular among Russians foreign destinations last winter. Passenger traffic from cities of Russia to the Ukrainian capital compared to the same period of 2014-2015 increased by 46 percent.
